Senior Physiotherapist

NHS; Horsham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS community therapy team as a Senior Community Physiotherapist, delivering personalized care and engaging in team leadership. This role offers flexible working, career development opportunities, and a chance to make a meaningful impact in the community. Ideal candidates will have strong clinical skills and a commitment to supporting patient independence.

Benefits

Flexible Work Schedule

Career Development Opportunities

Holistic Care Approach

Support Services for Employees

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in Physiotherapy required.
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Experience in a relevant specialist area preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and treatment planning for diverse patient conditions.
• Supervise and develop junior staff and support interdisciplinary teams.
• Engage in community rehabilitation efforts with tailored care planning.

Skills

Leadership

Patient Care

Assessment

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

HCPC Registration

Job description

Job summary

Senior Community Physiotherapist Opportunity in Community Therapy Team North

Are you ready to progress your physiotherapy career? Join our dynamic North 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 Horsham 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 license and access to your own car is essential as you'll cover various geographic areas within the CTT North service provision (Horsham, Crawley and Mid-Sussex).
• 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.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto 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.

Details Date posted

28 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum/pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

150-KB1745-CC

Job locations

Horsham Hospital

Hurst Road

Horsham

RH12 2DR

Job description 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.

Job description 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 Essential

• oProfessional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• oCurrent registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
• oEvidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality

Desirable

• Training in student education

Experience Essential

• 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 Essential

• 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
• Able to demonstrate leadership in practice
• 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 Essential

• Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
• Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role

Desirable

• Flexible working
• Access to a vehicle for work purposes

Person Specification Qualifications and Professional Registration Essential

• oProfessional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• oCurrent registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
• oEvidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality

Desirable

• Training in student education

Experience Essential

• 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 Essential

• 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
• Able to demonstrate leadership in practice
• 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 Essential

• Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
• Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role

Desirable

• Flexible working
• 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Horsham Hospital

Hurst Road

Horsham

RH12 2DR

Employer's website

https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Horsham Hospital

Hurst Road

Horsham

RH12 2DR

Employer's website

https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)