Senior Physiotherapist

NHS; Chichester; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Chichester is looking for a Senior Community Physiotherapist to deliver personalized therapeutic care within a dynamic team. The position involves conducting assessments, planning treatments, and supporting colleagues. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Physiotherapy, HCPC registration, and substantial post-qualification experience. This role offers a flexible work schedule and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Flexible Work Schedule

Career Development Support

Access to Wellbeing Services

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in Physiotherapy.
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses and CPD.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and plan treatments for patients.
• Supervise and develop colleagues in the MDT.
• Participate in service development and quality improvement.

Skills

Clinical skills competency

Advanced communication and negotiation

Numeracy and literacy

Ability to assess and plan care

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Current registration with HCPC

Job description

Senior Community Physiotherapist Opportunity in Community Therapy Team West

Are you ready to progress your physiotherapy career? Join our dynamic West Community Therapy Team as a Senior Community Physiotherapist, where you'll deliver holistic, personalized, therapeutic care that makes a meaningful impact on people's lives.

Why Join Us?

We’re offering exciting roles in our Chichester team, where you’ll be part of well-established, Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) across vibrant local communities.

What We Offer:

• Flexible Work Schedule: Our teams operate Monday to Friday, from 8 am to 6 pm (excluding bank holidays), ensuring you have the flexibility to balance your professional and personal life.
• Career Development: Whether you’re an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist or looking to advance from a Band 5 role, we provide robust support to help you thrive.
• Holistic Care: You’ll conduct specialist assessments and reviews aimed at improving or maintaining quality of life. Help individuals take control of their health with tailored rehabilitation interventions, personalized care planning, and goal setting.
• Integrated Services: Enhance access to services through a coordinated MDT approach, ensuring comprehensive care for our community members.

Main duties of the job

Your Role:

• Patient Care: Conduct assessments and plan treatments for patients with diverse conditions, making appropriate referrals to our partners.
• Leadership: Contribute to the MDT by allocating visits and supporting clinical and operational leads. You’ll also supervise and develop colleagues, enhancing both clinical and non‑clinical skills across the four pillars of practice.
• Mobility: A full UK driving licence and access to your own car is essential as you’ll cover various geographic areas within the CTT West service provision (Chichester, Selsey, Wittering, Bognor Regis, Midhurst, Petworth).
• Service development and Quality Improvement: As a growing and developing service, there are many exciting opportunities to participate in creating and implementing change and utilising new skills. This can be supported by additional training and professional development opportunities.

Why Our Trust?

Our Trust is dedicated to supporting your work/life balance with flexible working options and tailored support for advancing your clinical practice and leadership skills. We foster a supportive, positive environment where you can grow professionally and personally. There are numerous Wellbeing and staff support services available to support a healthy work life balance.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part‑time, flexi‑time, annualised hours, and flexi‑retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost‑effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief network
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

You’ll engage in planned community rehabilitation, making a real impact every day. Interested? Please check out the Job Description and Personal Specification for a greater breakdown of main responsibilities and expectations of role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Professional Registration

• Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality.
• Training in student education.

Experience

• Substantial relevant post‑qualification experience covering a broad range.
• Experience of working within a relevant specialist area.
• Experience of interdisciplinary working.
• Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students.
• Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload.
• Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework.
• Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems.
• Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge.
• Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group.

Skills and Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills.
• Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals.
• Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently.
• Able to delegate work to others.
• Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills.
• Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care.
• Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills.
• Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice.
• Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting.
• Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management.
• Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff.
• Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct.
• Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role.
• Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions.
• Able to demonstrate co‑operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD.

Other Requirements

• Car driver (Valid Driving Licence for use in the UK), unless under Equality Act.
• Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role.
• Access to a vehicle for work purposes.

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearPer annum/pro-rata