Physiotherapist

NHS; Trowbridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Trowbridge seeks a compassionate and skilled Physiotherapist. In this role, you will assess, treat, and manage a diverse range of conditions to improve patient mobility and wellbeing. The ideal candidate should have a degree in physiotherapy and at least 2 years of experience. Join a supportive team and make a real difference in patient lives.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• At least 2 years of post-qualifying experience in a similar role.
• Ability to travel to patients' homes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive assessment, treatment, management, and discharge processes.
• Prioritize workload effectively while managing complex caseloads.
• Ensure compliance with local policies and safeguarding responsibilities.

Skills

Compassion

Communication

Clinical Reasoning

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

We're looking for a compassionate and skilled professional to join our team, supporting people in their journey to improved mobility, independence, and wellbeing.

In this role, you'll work with a range of conditions, from neurological conditions like stroke and Parkinson's to musculoskeletal issues such as arthritis and fractures. You'll also support patients recovering after hospital discharge, working closely with our Reablement team to encourage mobility and maximise their potential.

You'll assess, treat, and manage patients, tailoring treatment plans to their individual needs and adjusting them as they progress. Your ability to communicate complex clinical information in a clear, supportive way will be essential, as will your ability to work with patients facing communication or cognitive challenges. You'll also play a key role in safeguarding, ensuring the highest standards of care and professional practice.

Were looking for someone with a degree in physiotherapy, with at least 2 years post-qualifying experience, HCPC registration, and experience working with diverse and sometimes challenging client groups. You'll need excellent interpersonal skills, a proactive mindset, and the ability to travel to patients homes and other care settings.

In return, we offer a supportive team environment, opportunities for professional development, and the chance to truly change lives.

Main duties of the job

The role involves delivering comprehensive assessment, treatment, management, onward referral, and discharge for a diverse range of customers, ensuring each receives appropriate advice and signposting for further support.

Responsibilities include prioritising workload effectively while managing the demands of customers, families, professionals, and agencies, adapting to increasing caseload complexity and accommodating preferred communication methods.

Accurate and current record-keeping is essential, aligned with HCPC and CSP standards, service guidelines, and organisational requirements. Treatment plans are developed using clinical reasoning based on assessment outcomes and adjusted as needed to reflect progress. Informed consent is obtained for all assessments and treatments, ensuring customers understand their condition, rehabilitation potential, and options. Capacity to consent is assessed where cognitive or other impairments may affect decision-making.

The role requires ongoing monitoring and review of progress, adapting goals and plans to ensure effective outcomes. Compliance with local policies, procedures, and professional standards is critical, including safeguarding responsibilities.

A strong understanding of frameworks such as Protection of Vulnerable Adults and Wiltshire Council policy is required, with active participation in safeguarding investigations when concerns arise. This position demands a commitment to safe, effective, and person-centred care.

About us

Wiltshire Council is the unitary local authority forthe county of Wiltshire, England, established in 2009 to provide bothcounty-level and district-level services. The council's vision is tofoster strong communities where residents can achieve their potential throughempowerment and inclusion. The council focuses on long-term challenges,community engagement, and delivering services that support independent living,reduce inequalities, and promote overall well-being.

Key Responsibilities and Services

CommunityServices

The council provides a range of essential services toresidents, including waste management, public planning, and support forvulnerable populations, such as older adults and people withdisabilities.

Governance

The council consists of elected councillors who form acabinet to set the council's direction and priorities. A system of overviewand scrutiny ensures accountability for the cabinet's decisions.

StrategicPlanning

The council engages in long-term planning, such as itshousehold waste management strategy, focusing on new approaches andopportunities to manage waste over the next decade and beyond.

Infrastructure

The council uses Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) fundsto support local infrastructure projects, including roads, schools, andrecreational facilities, to manage the impact of development.

Job responsibilities

Care job family overview

Support and assist the well-being of individuals and groups to assure their protection, security anddevelopment.

Safeguarding, protection and care.

Community, residential, day or field settings.

Ongoing risk/needs assessment of and advice for individuals/groups.

Specification of any non-council provision.

Individual or small group emphasis.

Likely to involve immediate response to client.

Service and Function Context

The overall responsibilities of the service/function are

As a physiotherapist, youll focus on identifying and maximising movement to improve the health andwellbeing of your patients.Your role is vital in working with a variety of conditions such as

neurological (stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's).

Post hospital discharge recuperation collaboratively with Reablement support team.

Proactively working to encourage transfers and mobility.

Job Purpose

Specific duties and responsibilities include

Provide comprehensive assessment, treatment, management, onward referral, and dischargefor a diverse range of customers referred to the service, ensuring each receives appropriateadvice and/or signposting for onward support.

Prioritise workload while managing the demands of customer needs, families, otherprofessional staff, and agencies, adapting to an increasing caseload complexity anddelivering the service in a way that suits the customers preferred communication method.

Maintain professional record-keeping standards, ensuring records are accurate, current, andaligned with professional codes as detailed by HCPC and Chartered Society ofPhysiotherapists (CSP), service standards, and organisational requirements.

Plan and implement treatment support plans based on assessment results, applying clinicalreasoning skills, and adjust these plans as needed based on customer progress.

Ensure informed consent for assessments and treatments, providing customers with a clearunderstanding of their condition and rehabilitation potential, and assess their capacity toconsent to treatment, with due consideration to insight where capacity is questioned orpotentially affected as result of cognitive or other impairment.

Monitor and review customer progress, adjusting support plans and treatment goals asneeded based on review outcomes to ensure the most effective approach is being utilised.

Comply with local policies, procedures, and professional standards, as outlined by the Healthand Care Professions Council. Customers may include vulnerable adults therefore develop aworking knowledge of relevant procedures including Protection of Vulnerable Adults and otherlegal frameworks.

Uphold safeguarding responsibilities, ensuring that adult safeguarding is carried out inaccordance with the law, local policy, and Wiltshire Council policy guidance, includingidentifying concerns and participating in safeguarding investigations.

Create a positive, caring environment where customers can expect high-quality, professionalservice, and where adherence to treatment and self-management is encouraged for optimaloutcomes.

Undertake complex manual handling techniques (with appropriate training), ensuring safetyand adherence to organisational policies for risk assessment and equipment use.

Order necessary equipment to support treatment and ensure it aligns with customer conditionand support plans.

Work in accordance with standards of practice set out by Chartered Society of Physiotherapy(CSP) and relevant national and local guidelines, ensuring treatment meets all professional andorganisational requirements.

Promote customer adherence to treatment and self-management, aiming for the best possibleoutcomes in line with customer goals.

Utilise manual therapy techniques, demonstrating skill in dexterity, coordination, palpation, andsensory assessment to enhance treatment effectiveness.

Address psychosocial factors in customer treatment plans, using appropriate techniques toconsider mental and emotional factors impacting customers recovery.

Be an ambassador for the council at all times, always representing the council positively,professionally and appropriately at meetings with customers, external partners and agencies.

Provide supervision and training as required by service to support development of lessexperienced team members and continued development of service.

Undertake and be responsible to own Continued Professional development to maintainregistration responsibilities outlined by HCP and CSP.

Specific requirements for this post

Ability to travel on a daily basis and to undertake visits to customers in their own homes or inother settings e.g. hospital.

There will be a requirement to occasionally work outside of standard hours, includingweekends to meet the needs of the service, for example assessing customers abilities atdifferent times of the day or provide support to other team members. To be flexible and workin other reablement teams as required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent qualification (SCQF Level 9) recognised by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy with at least 2 years post-qualifying experience.
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal.
• Proven ability to work with challenging client groups and situations. Proven ability to interpret situations, analyse behaviours to make judgements and deliver interventions to achieve outcomes.
• Experience with providing supervision.
• Ability to communicate clinical and non-clinical information to individuals with communication difficulties and individuals requiring a translator.
• Ability to sensitively communicate information regarding diagnosis and prognosis to patients.
• Able to demonstrate empathy and understanding to customers in stressful and emotional situations.
• Experience working within a range of settings including rehabilitation-based setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.