# Senior Physiotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-physiotherapist/b5956dcf-3601-4922-a349-2325018d00f3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-physiotherapist/b5956dcf-3601-4922-a349-2325018d00f3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Crawley - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 Per annum / pro-rata - **Contract type:** Secondment: 12 months - **Employment type:** Part time - 26 hours per week (Monday to Friday, no weekends) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T13:36:55.973Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Sussex/Horsham_Crawley/Sussex_Community_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Band_Senior_Physiotherapist/Band_Senior_Physiotherapist-v8374218 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8374218?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Senior Community Physiotherapist Opportunity in Community Therapy Team North Are you ready to progress your physiotherapy career? Join our dynamic North Community Therapy Team as a Senior Community Physiotherapist, where you'll deliver holistic, personalized, therapeutic care that makes a meaningful impact on people’s lives. Why Join Us? We're offering exciting roles in our Horsham and Crawley team, where you'll be part of well-established, Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) across vibrant local communities. What We Offer: - Flexible Work Schedule: Our teams operate Monday to Friday, from 8 am to 6 pm (excluding bank holidays), ensuring you have the flexibility to balance your professional and personal life. Full and part time hours will be considered. - Career Development: Whether you're an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist or looking to advance from a Band 5 role, we provide robust support to help you thrive. - Holistic Care: You'll conduct specialist assessments and reviews aimed at improving or maintaining quality of life. Help individuals take control of their health with tailored rehabilitation interventions, personalized care planning, and goal setting. - Integrated Services: Enhance access to services through a coordinated MDT approach, ensuring comprehensive care for our community members. ### Main duties of the job Your Role: - Patient Care: Conduct assessments and plan treatments for patients with diverse conditions, making appropriate referrals to our partners. - Leadership: Contribute to the MDT by allocating visits and supporting clinical and operational leads. You'll also supervise and develop colleagues, enhancing both clinical and non-clinical skills across the four pillars of practice. - Mobility: A full UK driving license and access to your own car is essential as you'll cover various geographic areas within the CTT North service provision (Horsham, Crawley and Mid-Sussex). - Service development and Quality Improvement: As a growing and developing service, there are many exciting opportunities to participate in creating and implementing change and utilising new skills. This can be supported by additional training and professional development opportunities. - Clinical Excellence: Stay at the forefront of advancements in Physiotherapy, continuously improving your practice and ensuring that interventions reflect the latest evidence-based practices Why Our Trust? Our Trust is dedicated to supporting your work/life balance with flexible working options and tailored support for advancing your clinical practice and leadership skills. We foster a supportive, positive environment where you can grow professionally and personally. There are numerous Wellbeing and staff support services available to support a healthy work life balance. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You'll engage in planned community rehabilitation, making a real impact every day. Interested? Please check out the Job Description and Personal Specification for a greater breakdown of main responsibilities and expectations of role. ### 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** - Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range - Experience of working within a relevant specialist area - Experience of interdisciplinary working - Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students - Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload - Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework - Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems - Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge - Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group ### Other Requirements **Essential** - Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK) - Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role **Desirable** - Flexible working - Access to a vehicle for work purposes ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills - Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals - Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently - Able to delegate work to others - Able to demonstrate leadership in practice - Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills - Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care - Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills - Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice - Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting - Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management - Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff - Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct - Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role - Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions - Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals - Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD ### Qualifications and Professional Registration **Essential** - - Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy. - - Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist. - - Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality **Desirable** - Training in student education ## Documents - [staff benefits brochure (pdf, 484.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2262) - [easy read application form (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2435) - [band 6 senior physiotherapist jd (pdf, 344.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10702261) - [band 6 senior physiotherapist ps (pdf, 344.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10702262) - [about sussex community nhs foundation trust (pdf, 632.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2743) - [guide to completing an online job application (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3072) - [applicants guide to the use of generative ai in applications (pdf, 218.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2971) ## 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.