Location
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Profession
Physiotherapist
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
20 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
26 Jun 2025

Job overview

  • To perform specialist assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.
  • To provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme
  • To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of service or patient type without direct supervision
  • To work in secondary care in a variety of hospital settings and the patient’s own homes.
  • To demonstrate as appropriate to role highly developed physical skills for assessment and treatment of patients eg dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses
  • To participate in bank holiday, weekend and evening working if required, following appropriate training, without direct supervision

Main duties of the job

  • To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients/clients in your care.
  • To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients/clients under your care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
  • To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients/clients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies; use specialist clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition
  • Formulate and deliver an individual treatment programme using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options. Formulate an initial diagnosis and prognoses in order to recommend best course of intervention and develop comprehensive discharge plans
  • To take delegated responsibility from the Band 7 clinician for managing patients/clients with particular conditions and be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment plans for patients with these conditions.
  • Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required
  • To have the ability to undertake self-directed/lone working in a variety of locations

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients/clients in your care.
  • To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients/clients under your care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
  • To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients/clients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies; use specialist clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition
  • Formulate and deliver an individual treatment programme using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options. Formulate an initial diagnosis and prognoses in order to recommend best course of intervention and develop comprehensive discharge plans
  • To take delegated responsibility from the Band 7 clinician for managing patients/clients with particular conditions and be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment plans for patients with these conditions.
  • Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required
  • To have the ability to undertake self-directed/lone working in a variety of locations