Band 6 Early Intervention Senior Physiotherapist 30 hours

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community healthcare organization in Birmingham is seeking a candidate to join their Early Intervention Community Team. This role involves working multi-professionally to ensure high-quality care in community settings, leading service enhancement initiatives, and facilitating strong communication with health partners. Candidates should possess HCPC or NMC registration, outstanding communication skills, and a commitment to rehabilitation principles. Opportunities for professional development and support in a transformative healthcare environment are offered.

Benefits

Inspire leadership training programme

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• HCPC or NMC registration is required for registered staff roles.
• Experience or eagerness to develop links with health and social care partners.
• Experience in leading, service development, and quality improvement preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work multi-professionally to complete assessments and interventions.
• Lead and promote a culture of home-first rehabilitation.
• Support junior staff and students in service development.
• Communicate effectively with health and social care partners.

Skills

HCPC or NMC registration

Excellent communication skills

Experience in service development

Leadership skills

Passion for trusted-assessor principles

Job description

Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.

Looking for a new opportunity to develop your skills in rehabilitation? Want to live in the youngest city in Europe? Truly cosmopolitan with a diverse population of over 1.1 million, Birmingham has the largest open space in Europe and fantastic network links to the rest of the UK.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Early Intervention Community Team within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community trust in the country. Part of a wider Early Intervention programme, which has so far delivered: 77,000 fewer acute bed days used, 19,000 fewer non‑acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system, saving £25.8 million for Birmingham to reinvest in Health and Social Care developments.

You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, and facilitating early hospital discharge.

Responsibilities

• Work multi‑professionally to complete assessments and interventions, ensuring high‑quality care in patients’ homes and other community settings.
• Lead and promote a culture of home‑first rehabilitation, ensuring people are treated in the right place at the right time.
• Support junior staff and students, and drive and lead service‑development projects and quality patient care.
• Communicate effectively with a flexible approach and establish links with health and social care partners.

Qualifications

• HCPC or NMC registration is required for registered staff roles.
• Will be expected to work shifts as required over 7 days (8am – 10pm).
• Excellent communication skills and a passion for trusted‑assessor principles.
• Experience or eagerness to develop links with health and social care partners.
• Experience in leading, service development, and quality improvement (preferred).

Important

• Ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully, including full details of all referees with email, telephone and postal address.

Benefits and Development

We run an Inspire leadership training programme for all staff with line management responsibility, alongside other opportunities to develop your career.

About Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. We deliver over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We provide services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care rooted in our local communities, with an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Application Deadline

This advert closes on Friday 2 Jan 2026.