Senior Physiotherapist

Job overview

🌟 Permanent Opportunity: Senior Physiotherapist (Band 6) – Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) 📍 Location: NELFT – Community Role covering 3 London boroughs (Office at Goodmayes Hospital, IG3 8XJ) 🕒 Includes weekend rota and late shifts (12–8pm)

Are you a Band 5 Physiotherapist ready to take the next step in your career? Or a Band 6 looking for a fresh, rewarding challenge this winter?

We’re offering a fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic and supportive Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) – a multidisciplinary community team that plays a vital role in reducing hospital admissions and supporting early discharges.

As a Senior Physiotherapist, you’ll:

• Manage your own caseload of community-based patients
• Deliver high-impact, person-centred rehabilitation in patients’ homes
• Collaborate with inpatient and acute teams to ensure seamless transitions of care
• Provide supervision, training, and joint sessions with colleagues across the team

This is your chance to make a real difference  while gaining valuable experience in a fast-paced, community-focused setting.

If you’re passionate about rehabilitation, thrive in a collaborative environment, and want to grow your leadership skills – we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Please review the Job Description and ensure you meet the requirements before applying.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) to provide high quality, timely rehabilitation for patients requiring step up from the integrated health team or step down from an acute or community bed.

Delivering high quality rehabilitation in a patient’s home rather than in a community bed setting for those patients with a rehabilitation need as part of a multi professional service/team.

Working with patient centred goal orientated rehabilitation to promote self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care.

Providing onward referrals to other community services including health and social care to ensure the safe management of the patient when completing their IRS episode of care.

The post holder will be a Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.

The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively support and liaise with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

Please refer to the job description attached for the full responsibilities of the role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We can offer excellent work - life balance and benefits including:

• Protected CPD time with a diverse In Service Training Programme
• Regular supervision
• NHS pension
• Close transport links into London
• Opportunity for service development and audit
• Flexibility within our 7 day working services
• Agile working devices to support community based workin

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

Use of AI

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