Community Physiotherapist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 36,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership development opportunities

Clinical supervision and development

Job summary

The Methodist Church in Britain is seeking a Band 6 Senior Community Physiotherapist to join the North Hampshire Community Therapy Team. The role involves domiciliary rehabilitation in patients' homes, managing a caseload within a multidisciplinary team, and delivering evidence-based treatments to prevent hospital admissions.

Part-time position (22.5 hours/week) with opportunities to develop leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification as a physiotherapist or occupational therapist.
• Level 6 degree plus postgraduate specialist training, experience or short courses to masters-equivalent level.
• Good command of English, written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients with acute, chronic and complex multi-system conditions using evidence-based practice.
• Manage your own caseload while working within the multidisciplinary team.
• Triage patients and liaise with the correct services.
• Deliver treatment programmes, or direct interventions through support workers and other MDT members.
• Facilitate safe discharge, including risk assessment, ordering equipment and advising patients and carers.

Skills

Good command of English

Good communicator

Autonomous practitioner

Education

Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist professional qualification

Job description

This Band 6 Senior Community Physiotherapist post sits in the North Hampshire Community Therapy Team, which provides domiciliary rehabilitation in patients' homes. The role centres on assessing and treating people with complex, multi-system conditions, managing a caseload independently and working with the multidisciplinary team to avoid hospital admission and enable timely discharge. It is part-time at 22.5 hours a week, with scope to build leadership skills, and an experienced Band 5 with community interest may also apply. Full HCPC registration is required.

What the job involves

• Assess patients with acute, chronic and complex multi-system conditions using evidence-based practice
• Manage your own caseload while working within the multidisciplinary team
• Triage patients and liaise with the correct services
• Deliver treatment programmes, or direct interventions through support workers and other MDT members
• Facilitate safe discharge, including risk assessment, ordering equipment and advising patients and carers
• Prevent unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care and promote functional independence
• Liaise with UCR team, district nurses, social care professionals and GPs for co-ordinated case management
• Work under the Clinical Team Lead, developing assessment and clinical skills that can be shared across the wider team

What’s required

Qualifications

• Appropriate professional qualification as a physiotherapist or occupational therapist
• Level 6 degree plus postgraduate specialist training, experience or short courses to masters-equivalent level
• Good command of English, written and verbal

Registration & licences

• Full HCPC registration

Experience

• Working with complex needs in a primary care or community setting
• Broad clinical skills across neuro, orthopaedic, MSK and elderly care
• Working with long-term conditions and frailty
• Involvement in implementing and managing change
• Organisational skills, including decision-making and prioritisationInterpreting research and evidence-based care and applying it to practice

Skills & knowledge

• Computer literacy for data entry, email and report writing
• Efficient worker
• Good communicator
• Confident working as an autonomous practitioner
• Understanding of clinical and professional supervision, and taking part in it

Nice to have

• Community experience
• Further education or ongoing personal development, such as external courses or a masters degree, or equivalent experience
• Management or leadership qualification or development programme
• Experience of initiating or taking part in a quality improvement project in clinical practice

What’s offered

• Flexible working requests discussed at interview
• Opportunity to develop leadership and management skills within the team
• Clinical supervision and development support from district therapy leads