# Senior Physiotherapist - Medicine & Surgery

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wye Valley NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Wye Valley NHS Trust
- **Town:** Hereford
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Physiotherapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Weekend working and over night on-call via Rota)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-06T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23T08:40:42.773Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hereford/Hereford/Wye_Valley_NHS_Trust/Physio/Physio-v8173770
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8173770?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

** Please note this vacancy may close early if high number of applicants**

An exciting opportunity has risen for a motivated and dynamic Senior  Physiotherapist to join the Surgical/medical/ ITU team within the acute inpatient physio team at Hereford County Hospital. This role would also be suitable for an experienced B5 looking to progress their career.

The Acute inpatient Physiotherapy team provide specialist assessment and rehabilitation for patients with a wide range of long and acute short-term conditions, within the various specialities  based within HCH.

### 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.

Based on the role, the post holder will be based either in the Acute and/or Community Hospitals in a range of ward settings, outpatient departments or the community. This post may include working with adults and/or children.

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.

## 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

**Desirable**

- Has worked on medical and surgical wards

### 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
- Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail
- Able to make independent, sound, clinical decisions and problem solve

## Documents

- [wvt benefits (pdf, 621.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1985)
- [229-ic-7227084 jdps (pdf, 232.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10476299)

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