Physiotherapist - Band 6

HCRG Care Group; Bath; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Reablement Physiotherapist to join their dynamic team in Bath. This role focuses on providing high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy to support patients in achieving their rehabilitation goals. You'll work closely with a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring a person-centred approach to care. The position offers a varied caseload and strong team support, making it a rewarding opportunity for those looking to make a real difference in patients' lives. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to transforming health and care services and enjoy a range of exclusive benefits and a supportive work culture.

Benefits

NHS pension contributions

Free tea and coffee

Discounts on everyday purchases

Access to wages as earned

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Continuing professional development opportunities

Open and supportive culture

Ringfenced innovation funding

Qualifications

• Registered Occupational Therapist with HCPC required.
• Degree in Physiotherapy is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct therapeutic assessments and rehabilitation for patients.
• Supervise junior therapists and support service development.

Skills

Motivation

Flexibility

Innovative thinking

Person-centred care

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Tools

Therapeutic assessments

Job description

Join our dynamic Reablement Team based in Bath and surrounding areas. We’re a short-term service supporting adults at home and in care settings, focusing on promoting independence through rehabilitation and equipment provision.

Key Service Areas:

• Discharge to Assess: Supporting patients post-discharge after illness, injury, or surgery.
• Admission Avoidance: Preventing hospital admissions within 48 hours.
• Planned Therapy: Helping patients achieve SMART goals and self-management.

You’ll work closely with acute services, GPs, nurses, and social care teams, alongside a supportive multi-disciplinary team including OTs, PTs, therapy assistants, and coordinators.

Location: St Martin’s Hospital, Bath

Hours: Core hours 8am–4pm; service operates 8am–10pm, 7 days/week (rota includes weekends/bank holidays with enhanced pay)

Collaboration: Close ties with sister teams in Keynsham & Midsomer Norton

If you’re looking for a rewarding role with a varied caseload and strong team support, we’d love to hear from you!

Main Responsibility

As a Reablement Occupational Therapist you will:

• Carry out therapeutic assessments, treatment and rehabilitation with patients, using person-centred goals.
• Provide an evidence-based occupational therapy service, of a high standard, to patients in a community setting, by undertaking comprehensive assessments, reassessments, care planning, rehabilitation, equipment provision, and therapeutic care and support.
• Hold responsibility for your own case load, working with Rehabilitation Therapy Workers to deliver therapeutic programmes.
• Provide effective supervision to junior Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, Reablement Therapy Workers, Occupational Therapy Apprentices and students.
• Support management with developing the Reablement Service, in line with the NHS transformation plan.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who is: motivating, innovative, flexible, and adaptable, who can ensure the delivery of positive experiences to patients, at every stage of their healthcare journey.

• You must hold a Degree in Physiotherapy.
• You will be a Registered Occupational Therapist with HCPC.
• Hold a Full UK Driver’s License and have access to a car/vehicle.

If you would like more information, please contact:

Kerry Lazenby at [e-mail] or call 01225 613701.

Package Description

We are looking for a dynamic, and enthusiastic, full time, Band 6 Reablement Physiotherapist to join us and work as part of our valued team, based at St Martin's Hospital, Bath.

As a Reablement Physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group you will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £37,338 - £44,962, with NHS pension contributions, and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Free tea and coffee at your base location.
• Membership of ‘My Reward Hub’, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping, cashback, and voucher offers, for yourself and your family.
• Access to your wages as you earn them, to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online, and face to face support with your mental and physical wellbeing; – from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management guidance, career coaching, and counselling.
• Access to e-learning, and opportunities for continuing professional development to support your career progression, through our ‘outstanding’ training and development programmes.
• An open, fair, and supportive culture, where you will be encouraged to contribute and implement ideas, which can help deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with many of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

• Job Category: HCRG - Allied Health Professionals
• Business Unit: HCRG - Bath and North East Somerset
• Location: St Martin's Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom