Specialist Community Physiotherapist

HCRG Care Group; Devizes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Specialist Community Physiotherapist to join the Early Supported Discharge (ESD) service in Wiltshire. The role focuses on delivering stroke rehabilitation in patients' homes and community settings, with a strong emphasis on person-centred plans and outcomes.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, supervise junior staff, and contribute to service development while ensuring high standards of clinical care. NHS-style post-licensure practice and CPD are supported.

Qualifications

• Degree in Physiotherapy (BSc/BSc Hons or equivalent), HCPC registration.
• Experience with adults with neurological conditions, including stroke rehabilitation.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams, teaching or supervising colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist physiotherapy for stroke patients in the Early Supported Discharge (ESD) pathway in community settings.
• Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments and develop person-centred rehabilitation plans.
• Support timely hospital discharge and safe community-based rehabilitation.
• Provide supervision and mentoring to junior staff and students.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives and integrated care planning.

Skills

Physiotherapy

Clinical assessment

Neurological rehab

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Leadership

Education

BSc/BSc Hons Physiotherapy

Tools

Clinical IT systems

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced clinician to join our Early Supported Discharge (ESD) Service. In this role, you will provide specialist neurological assessment, treatment, support, and advice to individuals recovering from stroke, enabling them to achieve their rehabilitation goals within their home and community settings.

• Deliver a specialist physiotherapy service for stroke patients within the Early Supported Discharge (ESD) pathway, providing high-quality assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation in community settings.
• Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments and develop person-centred rehabilitation plans that promote recovery, independence, and quality of life.
• Support timely hospital discharge and prevent unnecessary admissions by enabling safe and effective rehabilitation within patients' homes and local communities.
• Empower patients and their families to actively participate in care planning and decision-making, ensuring goals reflect individual needs and aspirations.
• Monitor, evaluate, and adapt treatment programmes to maximise rehabilitation outcomes, maintaining accurate and up-to-date clinical records.
• Assess, prescribe, and provide training in the safe use of rehabilitation equipment to patients, carers, and colleagues as appropriate.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to case reviews, MDT meetings, and integrated care planning to ensure seamless patient care.
• Provide specialist stroke advice, guidance, and support to colleagues across integrated community teams and partner services.
• Act as a clinical role model, providing supervision, mentorship, and support to junior staff, rehabilitation support workers, and students to promote high standards of practice.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the implementation of innovative practices that enhance stroke rehabilitation services across Wiltshire.

  Degree in Physiotherapy (BSc/BSc Hons or equivalent), HCPC registration, and relevant post-registration training.

• Experience working with adults with neurological conditions, including stroke rehabilitation, delivering patient-centred assessment, treatment, and case management.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams, collaborating across services, and building effective relationships with patients, carers, and partner organisations.
• Demonstrable leadership, supervision, teaching, or mentoring experience, with a commitment to supporting the development of colleagues and students.
• Strong clinical reasoning, communication, organisational, and IT skills, with the ability to manage a varied caseload, maintain clinical records, and communicate sensitive information effectively.
• Evidence of continuing professional development, evidence-based practice, and a commitment to maintaining high standards of care.

Desirable

• Experience working within community-based rehabilitation or Early Supported Discharge services.
• Involvement in service development, quality improvement, clinical audit, or implementing changes to practice.
• Experience working with a broad range of patient groups and external agencies to support integrated care pathways.
• Evidence of an innovative and flexible approach to service delivery and improving patient outcomes.

  We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here.

You will also provide professional and clinical leadership to registered practitioners and support workers, helping to develop a skilled and supportive workforce that delivers high-quality stroke rehabilitation services. Package Description As a Specialist Community Physiotherapist, you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission