Senior Physio SESD Team and Inpatient Stroke Unit - Development Role

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Wight Healthcare is recruiting for a development opportunity towards becoming a Senior Physiotherapist within our Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team and Inpatient Stroke Unit on the Isle of Wight. You will deliver a high standard of physiotherapy care across settings, collaborating with colleagues to ensure evidence-based care.

You will contribute to quality improvement, service development, and supervision of junior staff while developing your own clinical knowledge and skills.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
• Registration with HCPC and ongoing CPD.
• Evidence of clinical management and leadership ability.
• Postgraduate CPD or MSc-related training.
• Experience with clinical education and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality physiotherapy across stroke pathways and inpatient units.
• Supervise, teach and appraise junior staff and students.
• Lead on clinical development and participate in audits and service improvement.
• Support MDT working and discharge planning for stroke patients.

Education

Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy

Registration with HCPC

CPD including postgraduate courses

Clinical management skills

Clinical educators training

Postgraduate CPD, MSc awareness

UK professional registration

Job description

Senior Physio SESD Team and Inpatient Stroke Unit - Development Role

The closing date is 18th Oct 2026

Anticipated Interview date(s) TBC

Job summary

We are recruiting for a development opportunity towards becoming a Senior Physiotherapist within our Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team and Inpatient Stroke Unit on the Isle of Wight.

As a valued member of the team, you will deliver a high standard of physiotherapy care across a range of settings, always acting in the best interests of the patients you support.

Working collaboratively with colleagues across the stroke pathway, you will help ensure the delivery of consistent, evidence-based care for the people of the Isle of Wight. You will contribute to quality improvement initiatives, service development, and the support and supervision of junior staff, while continuing to develop your own clinical knowledge and skills.

This structured development opportunity provides dedicated time, training, and support to help you achieve the competencies required for progression to Senior Physiotherapist, offering an excellent pathway for professional and clinical development within a supportive team.

The Isle of Wight offers an exceptional quality of life, combining a rewarding career with a healthy work-life balance. With its stunning coastline, beautiful countryside, outdoor activities, and strong sense of community, the Island provides a unique opportunity to enjoy both professional fulfilment and an enviable lifestyle.

To undertake a supporting role, in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Physiotherapy Service provided to clients within the service on a day-to-day basis.

To take an active role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the Stroke Unit and ICSS who may have a complex presentation and determine if/what physiotherapy treatment is indicated and deliver an individualised treatment programme. To work as an autonomous practitioner ensuring that records are maintained and up to date in line with policy and governing body HCPC.

To independently supervise, teach and appraise junior Physiotherapists, Associate Practitioners, Physiotherapy students and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, as determined by the team leader and professional lead.

The successful candidate would be supported in training and development opportunities including stroke specific courses such as those offered by "Strokeed" and have the opportunity to attend stroke conferences nationally/ locally. Regular supervision from seniors and opportunities to participate in MDT stroke specific training and opportunities to participate in audits (with protected time to support these activities).

They would have opportunities to develop the leadership/ educational skills by supporting BSc and MSc Physio students and Careers for younger person apprentices.

Excellent MDT collaborative working to support patients both inpatient and community.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

This is a development post and as such the successful candidate will, at induction, review alongside the JD, to define clear competency attainment expectations with their primary clinical supervisor and line manager. Using a skills scan approach, the supervisor and supervisee will work together to consider current competency level, areas of specific focus and a clear personal development plan to ensure competency attainment is achieved within the following 12-18 months. Review will take place quarterly. Sign off for full competency will be considered at 12 months and can be extended to up to 18 months, should there be sufficient progress, without full attainment. A robust portfolio of triangulated evidence will be required to be produced to achieve attainment of gateway. Support will be provided to guide this process. This will include, though is not limited to, supervised practice logs using clinical observation tools and clinical competency review, case based discussions, weekly reflective logs with detailed reflections relating to significant events or learning experiences, literature review and evidence of influence to evidence based practice and service development, evidence or educating and supporting others, with feedback from colleagues and service users.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy

Registration with HCPC

Evidence of CPD including postgraduate courses, reflective practice in-service training and experiential learning relevant to specialty

Evidence of clinical management skills such as appraisal, interview, leading on clinical performance

Clinical educators training

Documented evidence of C.P.D

Post Graduate accredited courses relevant to Clinical Practice

Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety and ensure they are upheld within the service.

Clear vision of role/commitment to specialty service.

Evidence of participation in clinical recruitment and induction of staff.

Evidence Deputising for the Team Lead

Evidence of clinical leadership training.

Evidence of MSc post-graduate level CPD in relevant specialty.

Experience of involvement in clinical protocol development / implementation.

Experience in leading clinical service developments.

Clinical practice innovation, presentations and implementation of new clinical pathways.

Evidence of where you have taken the lead in clinical specialism initiatives

Experience with research

Experience

NHS Experience

Full UK Driving Licence

Physically fit and able to comply with Trust Manual Handling Guidelines.

Self-directed learning

Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.

Willingness to participate in staff training.

Ability to work within multi / interdisciplinary teams and set team goals, including discharge planning.

Willing to work flexible hours, if necessary, to meet the needs of the service

Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner.

Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.

Willingness to participate in staff training.

Ability to work within multi / interdisciplinary teams and set team goals.

Ability to perform weekend duties.

Willing to work flexible hours, if necessary, to meet the needs of the service

Ability to work autonomously and prioritise competently

Evidence of commitment to personal and Service development

Flexible during periods of constant change

Aptitude to develop opportunities from threats, adaptable to clinical service delivery changes and needs Ability to promote and initiate Business Cases

Ability to implement innovative practice, business cases and new service developments

Previous experience of working with and management of respiratory related conditions independently

Evidence of participation in research/audit

Experience of clinical supervision of students

Ability to run courses -- internal / external.

Evidence of participation in research / audit.

Supervision of other staff e.g. physiotherapy assistant / technical instructor.

Committee membership e.g. Health and Safety.

Ability to manage and supervise the clinical team in the absence if the team lead.

Evidence of the ability to manage service change involving a range of stakeholders

Additional Criteria

Please see job description

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Band

Band 5

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-Time

Reference number

348-IOW-12416

Job locations

St. Mary's Hospital (IOW)
Parkhurst Road
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 5TG