# Senior Physiotherapist in Emergency Department > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-physiotherapist-in-emergency-department/4485e962-1821-46cf-8b3b-7ffa7a73502c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-physiotherapist-in-emergency-department/4485e962-1821-46cf-8b3b-7ffa7a73502c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-25T11:13:10.765Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Therapies/Therapies-v8110966 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8110966?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity to enhance your career is available - join our integrated team in the Emergency Department (ED) at Charing Cross Hospital. Our Therapy department provides opportunity for enthusiastic and highly motivated therapists to expand their skills in admission avoidance, complex discharge planning, and frailty. We pride ourselves in providing a high quality of care for our patients utilising the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and working along-side our Frailty Clinical Nurse Specialists. We are seeking a dynamic Physiotherapist who thrives in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same. You will have the opportunity to assess and treat a wide range of patient cohorts; frailty, falls, dementia, delirium, musculoskeletal injuries, neurological conditions and other long term conditions. ### Main duties of the job - To provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients in all service areas. - To acquire and demonstrate knowledge of relevant pathologies, conditions, normal values relating to the specialist area of physiotherapy. - To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care. - To undertake a comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentation. - To communicate effectively, using a range of verbal and non-verbal skills, with patients and carers/family to motivate, engage to participate in therapy and to ensure an understanding of their condition. - To plan and prioritise own caseload independently on a day-to-day basis to ensure patients are appropriately seen, in conjunction with the priorities of the team and to give assistance to other team members as required. - To critically appraise published research and use results to inform practice. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Job Details An exciting opportunity to enhance your career is available - join our integrated team in the Emergency Department (ED) at Charing Cross Hospital. Our Therapy department provides opportunity for enthusiastic and highly motivated therapists to expand their skills in admission avoidance, complex discharge planning, and frailty. We pride ourselves in providing a high quality of care for our patients utilising the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and working along-side our Frailty Clinical Nurse Specialists. We are seeking a dynamic Physiotherapist who thrives in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same. You will have the opportunity to assess and treat a wide range of patient cohorts; frailty, falls, dementia, delirium, musculoskeletal injuries, neurological conditions and other long term conditions. ## Job Description To provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients in all service areas. To acquire and demonstrate knowledge of relevant pathologies, conditions, normal values relating to the specialist area of physiotherapy. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care. To undertake a comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentation. To communicate effectively, using a range of verbal and non-verbal skills, with patients and carers/family to motivate, engage to participate in therapy and to ensure an understanding of their condition. To plan and prioritise own caseload independently on a day-to-day basis to ensure patients are appropriately seen, in conjunction with the priorities of the team and to give assistance to other team members as required. To critically appraise published research and use results to inform practice. ## Responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant physiotherapy specialities and clinical settings - Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team - To have participated in service development projects - Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants. - Experience of supervision of students/ physiotherapy assistants, with development of basic supervision skills. - Demonstrate an understanding of the use of evidence based practice in speciality - Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital - To have undertaken audit and/or research, either within area of physiotherapy speciality or as part of the MDT **Desirable** - Previous experience in the NHS as a qualified physiotherapist - Previous senior physiotherapist experience in relevant post - Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care - Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy - State registration with the Health Professions Council. - Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio. - Able to demonstrate specialist learning from previous physiotherapy rotations, formal post-graduate level learning and informal CPD (both general and specific to clinical fields of speciality). - Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity. **Desirable** - Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy - Membership of CSP special interest groups relevant to speciality ### Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities **Essential** - Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area. - Able to use knowledge of a range of treatment approaches in the specialist area. - Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/ experience/circumstances and utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills. - Able to carry out manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling, requiring skilful and strenuous physical effort during the working day. - Ability to remain up to date with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management. - Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively. - Ability to seek guidance and assistance when required and to be aware of personal limitations. - Ability to cope with working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients or carers - Competent IT skills. - Good presentation skills. **Desirable** - Evidence of CPD relevant to role and specialist area. - Well-developed abilities for communication and consensus building skills, to speak to groups. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 515.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10406004) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirement form (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10406005) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.