Senior Physiotherapist - Community

Job overview

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist, to join the Community Rehabilitation Service.

The Senior Physiotherapist role is based in Peterborough and the surrounding area. You would be working as part of a community-based therapy team providing high quality rehabilitation to patients with physical disabilities in their home environment.

This post will allow the successful candidate the opportunity to consolidate their community, clinical and managerial skills. You will be working within a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistants, and alongside Nursing and Mental Health colleagues.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team-work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to professionals with the right attributes to enhance a team.

Main duties of the job

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county. You will need a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not reliable and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

We are looking for a self-motivated individual who is able to work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional Community Rehabilitation Service to provide a high standard of care to our patients.

Your role will include assessing, planning and developing specialist physiotherapist programmes for patients with a wide variety of complex needs. You will be responsible for your own caseload, prioritising referrals according to clinical need, signposting appropriately and undertaking assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using advanced, specialist clinical reasoning skills.

Your role also includes supervision of junior staff and students, overseeing patient intervention and ensuring that Therapy Assistants deliver high quality patient care.

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team.
• To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions, provide adaptive equipment, rehabilitation programmes, and make recommendations for minor adaptations in line with current legislation.
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• To provide support and education to peers, new staff, non-registered staff and students.
• To supervise junior staff and students, overseeing patient intervention and ensure that Therapy Assistants deliver high quality patient care.
• To be actively involved in teaching and supporting Therapy Assistants to achieve competencies.
• To be accountable for a delegated caseload held by Therapy Assistants.
• To prioritise all referrals according to clinical need and to allocate or signpost appropriately.
• To provide a high standard of care.
• To work in various community settings, this includes lone working, with access to Clinical Leads when required.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.