# Senior Physiotherapist - Leominster/Kington Neighbourhood Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wye Valley NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-physiotherapist-leominsterkington-neighbourhood-team/21b74ea5-fafe-460a-a484-1664cdf19bae - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-physiotherapist-leominsterkington-neighbourhood-team/21b74ea5-fafe-460a-a484-1664cdf19bae.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Wye Valley NHS Trust - **Location:** Vaughan Building - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term / Secondment opportunity) - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-27T14:00:39.092Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8260261 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8260261?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Wye Valley NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for an experienced physiotherapists to join our community based Neighbourhood Teams across Herefordshire on a permanent basis. The post holder will work out of the Leominster Community Office base. You will be working alongside other Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists - registered and non-registered, District Nurses, ACPs and alongside Home First reablement service and care agencies, completing home visits and offering physiotherapy assessments and treatment plans to patients. The role includes community rehabilitation, discharge to assess and urgent response. Our community teams, we strive to invest in your development and offer regular training, team meetings, shared learning and regular supervision sessions. We aim to support the Trusts focus of providing care closer to home. This posts will require you to have access to a car for work purposes. We encourage enquiries. For an informal discussion please contact Donna Clarke on 07870 276753. ### Main duties of the job Working as part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team, Band 6 senior therapists use specialist skills in a variety of areas to provide direct high quality and effective therapeutic care and support to patients. This post is based out in the Community. Within the scope of the role, the post holder will independently plan, complete specialist assessment and deliver interventions. They will be responsible for independently managing their own patient caseload, demonstrating clinical autonomy, specialist clinical reasoning, prioritisation and manage competing demands. Supervision is clear and direct from senior therapy staff and includes formal training, supervised sessions, advice and support. The post holder will initiate and contribute to service development, demonstrate self-development and will be responsible for supervision of others and delegate appropriate tasks to registered and non-registered staff. The band 6 senior therapist will be required to participate in 7 day working and for physiotherapists to join the on call rota once competencies have been achieved. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services - Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment - Experience working as Band 5 in the NHS - UK Driving license and access to vehicle **Desirable** - Community experience ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy - HCPC registered - Post Graduate specialist qualification/significant post graduate experience ### Skills, Knowledge & Abilities **Essential** - Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions - Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills - Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area - Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping ## Documents - [wvt benefits (pdf, 621.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1985) - [229-ic-7779046 jdps (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10573873) ## 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.