Senior Physiotherapist

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as an Acute Rehab & Neurosciences Physiotherapist at Imperial College Healthcare. This full-time role offers the opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team, delivering exceptional care to varied patients while advancing your professional skills in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible working options

Wellbeing benefits

Staff recognition schemes

Membership options for onsite leisure facilities

Qualifications

• Degree in Physiotherapy required with HCPC registration.
• Demonstrated CPD evidence through a portfolio.
• Experience in relevant physiotherapy specialties and clinical settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality physiotherapy services to patients.
• Manage own caseload independently.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of patients.

Skills

Clinical Decision Making

Communication Skills

Advanced Clinical Reasoning

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

State registration with the Health Professions Council

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Membership

Job description

Acute Rehab & Neurosciences Physiotherapist

Band 6

Main area Therapies Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (End date 31/08/26) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 290-MIC-1670

Site Charing Cross Hospital Town London Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pa inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 18/06/2025 23:59

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Fast forward your physiotherapy career at Imperial. With five world-renowned hospitals, we are full of opportunity for dynamic and motivated physiotherapists who are looking for progression to develop new skills, get involved in quality improvement and collaborate with leading multidisciplinary teams.

Our trust wide Specialist Neurosciences rotation currently has a vacancy for a 12 month fixed term position within the Acute and Hyperacute Stroke Team, PLUS other fixed term opportunites within the wider Physiotherapy team at Imperial.

Our physiotherapists are an integral part of the multi-disciplinary teams across the trust, and as a successful candidate, you will have the opportunity to provide high quality physiotherapy to patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. You will be able to develop and deliver an individualised treatment programmes whilst growing your specialist experience and leadership skills in a welcoming and supportive environment.

Each specialty has support of both band 7 & 8 Clinical therapists to support your clinical and professional development in addition to your peer group with regular peer support meetings and buddy system to support your transition into the trust. We actively support CPD through an established performance development review (PDR) system, in-service training and external courses. There are also opportunities to undertake formal postgraduate study.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients in all service areas.
• To acquire and demonstrate knowledge of relevant pathologies, conditions, normal values relating to the specialist area of physiotherapy.
• To be responsible for own caseload and be responsible within a defined area of the service and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentation.
• To plan and prioritise own caseload independently on a day-to-day basis to ensure patients are appropriately seen, in conjunction with the priorities of the team and to give assistance to other team members as required.
• To be flexible in the organisation of own caseload and to respond to predictable and unpredictable service needs throughout the day.
• To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your own work and current practice through the use of projects, audit or outcome measures, whether individually or with the support of senior staff.
• To assist in the induction, daily supervision and delegation of tasks to band 5 physiotherapists, therapy support workers, students and administrative staff, as required.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy.
• State registration with the Health Professions Council
• Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio.
• Able to demonstrate specialist learning from previous physiotherapy rotations, formal post-graduate level learning and informal CPD (both general and specific to clinical fields of speciality).
• Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity.
• Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Membership of CSP special interest groups relevant to speciality

Experience

• Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant physiotherapy specialities and clinical settings
• Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team
• To have participated in service development projects.
• Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants.
• Experience of supervision of students/ physiotherapy assistants, with development of basic supervision skills.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the use of evidence based practice in speciality
• Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital
• To have undertaken audit and/or research, either within area of physiotherapy speciality or as part of the MDT
• Previous experience in the NHS as a qualified physiotherapist
• Previous senior physiotherapist experience in relevant post
• Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care
• Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

• Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area.
• Able to use knowledge of a range of treatment approaches in the specialist area.
• Able to make sound clinical decisions based on knowledge/ experience/circumstances and utilise advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• Evidence of CPD relevant to role and specialist area.
• Well-developed abilities for communication and consensus building skills, to speak to groups.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Graeme Cossou Job title Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Neurosciences Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 020 3311 0406