Physiotherapist

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Boston; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early access to Psychological Therap"

Competitive annual leave

Car leasing scheme

Free eye tests

Salary sacrifice discounts

Retailer/restaurant discounts

Job summary

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Physiotherapist to join the Specialist Learning Disability team serving Boston, Skegness and Louth. This fixed-term post welcomes both newly qualified and experienced applicants with an interest in adults with learning disabilities and complex health needs.

You will operate within a multi-disciplinary team, carrying out clinical assessments, care planning and delivering physiotherapy interventions across core pathways while promoting

Qualifications

• BSc Hons in Physiotherapy or post graduate diploma in Physiotherapy.
• HCPC registered Physiotherapist.
• Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
• CPD evidence.

Responsibilities

• Support physiotherapy for adults with learning disabilities across mental health, positive behaviour support and physical health pathways.
• Provide clinical assessment, care planning and clinical decision-making.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver interventions.
• Full training available for suitable applicants.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Verbal & written communication

Information Governance

Independent & team working

Supervision of junior staff

Mobility assessments

Initial & risk assessments

Education

BSc Hons in Physiotherapy

HCPC registered

CS Physiotherapy member

CPD evidence

Job description

Main area Learning, Disabilities and Autism Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available) Job ref 274-11941-SP-C

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Beech House Town Boston Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 01/10/2026

Physiotherapist

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

We are excited to offer a fixed-term opportunity for a motivated Physiotherapist to join the Specialist Learning Disability team, currently covering Boston, Skegness, and Louth, although you may need to cover service-wide as needed.

This post provides the opportunity for someone with post qualification experience or newly qualified, who has an interest in working with adults with learning disabilities and complex health needs.

Within this role you will work as part of a well-established multi-disciplinary team, offering a range of specialist health interventions to people with a learning disability within their place of normal residence, respite and day care placements.

Please note the vacancy may close earlier than the original date.

Main duties of the job

You will support the provision of Physiotherapy for adults with Learning Disabilities across 3 core pathways: mental health, positive behaviour support and physical health.

The role includes clinical assessment, care planning and appropriate clinical decision-making skills. Being a compassionate, organised, team player with excellent communication skills and effective time management skills are key, as well as being accountable for your own caseload management and being able to identify physiotherapy interventions which you will joint work with staff within the team to deliver.

Enthusiasm and motivation are just as important as your experience for this role, as full training can be provided for a successful applicant with the relevant qualifications.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSc Hons in Physiotherapy or post graduate diploma in Physiotherapy.
• HCPC registered Physiotherapist
• Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• CPD evidence

Experience

• Experience working in a healthcare provider organisation as a physiotherapist (or student placement)
• Experience of working with Adults with Learning disabilities.
• Experience of working as a qualified Physiotherapist

Skills

• Clinical reasoning skills.
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written skills alone with clear logical presentation skills.
• Knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Ability to work independently and collectively.
• Supervision of junior staff.
• Experience of completing mobility assessments
• Experience of completing initial assessments and risk assessments.

In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.

We reserve the right to withdraw or close a vacancy at any time. We will give priority to employees who are at risk.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.