Community Physiotherapist

Nhs View All Jobs; Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Training and development opportunities

Staff wellbeing support

Job summary

NHS North Community Therapy Team is seeking a Senior Community Physiotherapist to deliver holistic, person-centred care in the Mid-Sussex area. The post involves working within Multi-Disciplinary Teams and supporting clinical leadership across community settings.

You’ll conduct specialist assessments and rehabilitation in people’s homes, align with best practice, and support service development with flexible working options and ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

• Professional degree in Physiotherapy with HCPC registration.
• Postgraduate CPD relevant to clinical speciality.
• Ability to lead and supervise junior staff.
• Demonstrated multi-disciplinary team working across community settings.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient-centred physiotherapy assessments and treatment plans.
• Lead and supervise MDT colleagues and allocate visits.
• Travel across CTT North service areas with a valid UK driving license.
• Contribute to service development, QA, audit and innovations.

Skills

Clinical skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Numeracy & IT

CPD awareness

Team working

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

HCPC registered

Postgraduate CPD

Job description

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 Mid-Sussex team, where you'll be part of well-established, Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) across vibrant local communities. What We Offer:

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.
• 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, 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., You'll engage in planned community rehabilitation with people in their own homes, making a real impact every day.

Job responsibilities

You’ll engage in planned community rehabilitation with people in their own homes, making a real impact every day.

Qualifications

• oProfessional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• oCurrent registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
• oEvidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality

Desirable

• Training in student education

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

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

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

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services. Why work for us?

Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo o Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.