Senior Community Physiotherapist

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Stroud; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust in Stroud is seeking a Band 6 Physiotherapist on a fixed-term 9-month contract (30 hours/week) to join the Integrated Community Team, delivering community rehabilitation and triage alongside nursing, occupational therapy and reablement services.

You will supervise and delegate to the physiotherapy team, manage a caseload, and respond to urgent referrals from the Stroud Referral Centre on a rota.

Qualifications

• Registered physiotherapist with NHS banding (Band 6) or eligible for Band 6.
• Experience in community rehabilitation and integrated care pathways.
• Car driver essential for travel across Stroud & Berkeley Vale.

Responsibilities

• Triage and urgent response for referrals via the referral centre.
• Delegate and lead the physiotherapy team within the Integrated Community Team (ICT).
• Manage a clinical caseload and supervise junior staff and assistants.
• Assess, formulate, evaluate and monitor rehabilitation care packages in the community.
• Coordinate, allocate and organise work to meet service priorities; rota duties at Stroud Referral Centre.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Team leadership

Community physiotherapy

Triage & urgent response

Job description

This role is offered on a fixed term/secondment basis for 9 months. The hours are part‑time, 30 hours per week.

Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment.

Due to the current post holder commencing maternity leave, we have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and skilled Physiotherapist to join the Integrated Community Team (ICT) in the Stroud District on a fixed term contract until July 2027

The ICT consists of Community Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and the Home First/Reablement Team. We work collaboratively with the wider MDT within our service and our Integrated Care System (ICS) partners to enable individuals to remain as healthy and independent as possible within their own homes.

This is a multifaceted role with a varied caseload incorporating both triage and urgent response of patients referred via the referral centre, and patients from the community waiting list. The post holder will also be responsible for the delegation of work to other members of the physiotherapy team within the ICT, as well as holding a caseload. This is an ideal opportunity for an existing Band 6 or experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge who would like to work in new ways within the Stroud area.

As you will be driving around the beautiful Stroud & Berkeley Vale area delivering our service, being a car driver is essential to the role.

We can offer you the opportunity to work in a very supportive integrated team, with access to training, regular supervision, annual appraisal and the autonomy to be a lead professional in our service delivery.

To work as a Band 6 Physiotherapist participating as a member of the community team and independently managing a specialised clinical caseload. You will also be required to manage and triage work within the Stroud Referral Centre on a rota basis.

The post-holder will be required to assess, formulate, evaluate and monitor specialised rehabilitation care packages which will involve complex decision making within the community, including Home First services and referral centre. The role can require urgent responses to priority cases and will require negotiation and co‑ordination of several multidisciplinary team members to deliver specialised rehabilitation care programmes.

To supervise, train, advise, support and manage physiotherapists, physiotherapy technicians/assistants, reablement workers, students and community care workers’ performance who report to the post-holder.

To be responsible for the operational management of the team that reports to the post-holder; coordinating, allocating and organising the work of junior and assistant staff to meet service priorities.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

About

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high‑level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top‑quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Philippa Norris-Jones Job title: Community Physiotherapy Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07775 888551