Senior Rehabilitation Physiotherapist

Locala Health and Wellbeing; Lower Hopton; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused health organization in Lower Hopton is seeking a Senior Rehabilitation Physiotherapist to join their Intermediate Care Bed Base team. The role involves providing rehabilitation services and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure effective patient care. Candidates should have a relevant physiotherapy degree, strong communication skills, and the ability to work on their initiative. Flexible working and strong support for professional development are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working

Generous pension scheme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in intermediate care-based rehabilitation.
• Ability to build complex relationships with stakeholders.
• Contribution to service development and policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, treatment, and evaluation of clients' needs.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Support CPD through training and clinical supervision.

Skills

Communication skills

Core physiotherapy skills

Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team

Initiative

Education

Physiotherapy degree

Job description

Senior Rehabilitation Physiotherapist

Band 6 (£38,682 - £46,580)

Permanent

37.5 per week

Responsibilities

If you are a Physiotherapist with a passion for intermediate care based rehabilitation, with strong communication skills and the ability to affectively work as part of an MDT this will be the challenge you have been looking for.

Be part of our success story and contribute to our bright future. Locala Community Partnerships is a Community Interest Company (CIC), an independent, not for profit social enterprise providing NHS services to over 400,000 people in and around Kirklees in the heart of West Yorkshire. Locala is staff owned with members that have a say in how the organisation is run.

We have an exciting new opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced and committed Physiotherapist with strong core physiotherapy skills and a desire to build on specialist skills in the delivery of rehabilitation within a multi-disciplinary team comprising of nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and assistant practitioners and rehabilitation assistants to join Locala’s Intermediate Care Bed Base team, with close links to acute wards as well as community colleagues.

The service is based within a social care setting serving the residents of Kirklees, it offers a 7 day service, working 8am until 7pm providing assessment, treatment and evaluation of clients’ needs in a rehabilitation setting based on an patient centric programme. The ultimate aim being to prevent unnecessary future admission to hospital and in addition to ensure the swift appropriate discharge from hospital to offer rehabilitation and enable our clients to return home. The team will also work with extended reablement and reablement services in addition to the third sector, with the aim also of avoiding inappropriate admission to long term care. Working on initiative is essential, and there will be opportunities to support and skill share with colleagues within the team as well as across the different sectors.

The role will incorporate consultations and education within the primary and secondary care environment, providing a specialist resource for health care professionals and patients, providing formal and informal training. The post holder will require excellent communication skills to build complex relationships and network with key stakeholders to enable integration.

As a specialist physiotherapist you will contribute to service development and polices with the senior members of the team and give specialist advice to clients and other professionals as required, together with clinical supervision for junior colleagues and students. Whilst each professional will have their core skills, it is essential that all the team members work closely together in an integrated MDT to provide a comprehensive service through skill sharing utilising the Calderdale Framework.

We are committed to supporting CPD with staff training identified through our robust appraisal system. Supported by in service training, access to external courses and clinical supervision. INTERMEDIATE CARE BED BASED therapist will work closely with colleagues across Adult Community Therapy Services, START and Reablement to ensure clinical competencies are maintained and clinical pathways are robust to allow patient flow.

If you are able to use your own initiative, be flexible in your approach, and are motivated to be part of a developing service, come and join us. This service is very much a team approach, with support in supervision, regular team meetings and training.

Locala is committed to helping employees achieve a positive work-life balance and promotes mobile working. Staff are provided with mobile technology.

This post is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check and you must be able to fulfil the travel requirements of the post.

Find out more about Locala through our Thrive Strategy

For full details about the role please see job description and person specification

For more information about the role, please contact Emma Briggs, [e-mail]

Closing date - 17/11/2025

Shortlisting date - 18/11/2025

Interview date - 24/11/2025

We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the stated date should we receive sufficient applications

About us

Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

“Locala is a ‘Disability Confident’ employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.”

Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy

• Flexible working-We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension- We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Refer a Friend Scheme-If you know a friend or family member who works at Locala on a substantive contract, you may be able to take advantage of our Refer a Friend Scheme. You both could receive a reward of £500 each, after you have successfully started your role with us.