Specialist Physiotherapist

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Greater London is seeking a Specialist Physiotherapist to provide vital rehabilitation services to adult clients. The role involves conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, and supporting patient independence and early hospital discharge. Candidates must have a degree in Physiotherapy and HCPC registration, alongside significant experience in community and multi-disciplinary settings. This position offers an annual salary of £46,419 to £55,046 pro rata with commitments to professional development and optimal patient care.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Access to leadership training courses

Annual appraisals and career progression support

Qualifications

• Significant experience at band 5 or above.
• Experience working in adult rehabilitation and community settings.
• Experience supervising junior staff and students.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
• Case manage clients and facilitate early home discharges.
• Maintain accurate client records and ensure confidentiality.

Skills

Organisational skills

Complex condition assessment

Rehabilitation skills

Excellent communication

Understanding of manual handling

Education

Graduate Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy

State Registration with HCPC

Job description

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Physiotherapist

The closing date is 04 January 2026

Intermediate Care Lambeth provides integrated health and social care at home to adults aged 18 years & older who live in the borough of Lambeth. The people that we support have a range of diagnoses and clinical presentations.

Our service aims to:

• Facilitate the safe discharge of people from hospital to home care.
• Provide intensive, short‑term multi‑disciplinary rehabilitation & care support to promote functional independence.

Our Professional Offer to You:

• Further develop your clinical skills.
• Develop your skills in holistic assessment, problem solving, intervention planning and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.
• Develop management and operational skills.
• Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development.
• Support you to be involved in physio meetings and in‑service training.
• Provide supervision and clinical support.

At GSTT we are committed to providing:

• Professional expert advice, including access to our professional leads in community and hospital settings.
• An annual appraisal and PDR.
• Structured in‑service development programmes and supervisions.
• Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation.
• Training links to London Southbank and King's College Universities.
• Support to develop your skills in preparation and presentations.

Main duties of the job

Have responsibility for specialist rehabilitation and therapy assessment, specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients.

Delegate tasks to RSWs. Case manage people through intensive short‑term rehabilitation programmes. Goal setting with clients to maximise independence, facilitate early hospital discharge, reduce reliance on care and reduce admissions to long‑term domiciliary care.

Work, as a lone practitioner and at times with colleagues, across a variety of locations within the community to meet the needs of a multi‑cultural population in an inner city area.

Work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set by the regulatory body (HCPC), professional body (CSP), government, Trust and department, thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work and to meet the requirements for professional registration.

Work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team, across traditional professional boundaries to meet the needs of clients using a holistic and client‑centred approach.

Be responsible for practice, education, assessment, mentorship and preceptorship of students and new/junior members of staff. Work towards organisational priorities and achieving service aims.

Support the department's commitment to meeting patient needs and delivering excellence. It is essential the post holder be able to work their hours and contribute to both rotas over a 7 day week, including weekday and weekend.

About us

About the Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high‑quality care. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.

Integrated Local Services (ILS) at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of community and inpatient health services for adults within the communities of Lambeth and Southwark. Our hospital‑based inpatient and outpatient services provide care for adults from across the region.

Our services range from health promotion through to delivery of high‑quality care for complex patients in the community centres.

Our values

Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that we all understand and reflect these values in our work. We are:

Caring - we put patients first
Ambitious - we innovate and strive for excellence
Inclusive - we respect each other and work collaboratively

Job responsibilities

Professional / Clinical responsibilities

To be professionally and legally responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of treatment delivered to the client to ensure a high standard of clinical care.

To work as an autonomous lone practitioner, case managing clients in the community and coordinating their care.

To carry out timely assessment, treatment, goal setting and rehabilitation of community clients to prevent admission or re‑admission to hospital or long‑term domiciliary care and to facilitate early discharge home from hospital.

To be competent in using a wide variety of specialised assessment and treatment approaches with adults with a range of conditions, including those with severe physical and cognitive impairment or multiple diagnoses to formulate treatment plans, maximise rehabilitation potential and set goals.

Using advanced clinical reasoning skills, analyse and interpret complex assessment findings, from both standardised and non‑standardised assessments in order to formulate an accurate diagnosis and prognosis.

To be able to analyse and interpret complex clinical and social information from a range of sources.

To ascertain rehabilitation potential of clients following assessment and devise both uni‑disciplinary and multi‑disciplinary rehabilitation goals which address clinical rehabilitation needs, client choice, service criteria, urgency of need and clinical risk.

To be able to identify significant health changes that would warrant medical intervention and liaise with the relevant practitioner in a timely manner.

To educate clients, carers and family members on the clients medical condition, prognosis and physical management encouraging their involvement and actively promoting healthy lifestyles.

To implement a range of interventions including, but not limited to, physical and cognitive rehabilitation in functional tasks, work and leisure.

To undertake patient moving and handling assessments, make recommendations and provide training to informal carers when required.

To provide recommendations for posture and seating, minor home adaptations, and specialist housing. Assess clients needs for any rehabilitative equipment and aids to improve safety and functioning within the home as part of a Trusted Assessor role.

To train RSWs, therapy assistants, students, informal carers, family members in the use of appropriate equipment. Demonstrate the safe use of equipment to external providers of care where appropriate.

Assess and manage clinical, physical and/or environmental risk. To adhere to incident reporting procedures and to support RSWs to do likewise.

To act as lead health professional for clients when required.

To identify significant health changes that would warrant medical intervention and liaise with the relevant practitioner.

To liaise with the multidisciplinary team and identify when referral is indicated.

To maintain accurate and up‑to‑date individual client records and ensure safekeeping and confidentiality of these records (including use of the Trust electronic patient records system) in line with Trust, legal and professional requirements.

To evaluate client intervention and progress in a timely manner using appropriate outcome measures and evaluation tools.

To adapt care plans accordingly and delegate tasks appropriately to RSWs.

To discharge clients in a timely manner having reviewed the clients needs and goals, making appropriate onward referrals where necessary.

To participate in the duty therapy rota for the single point of access, responsible for triage and prioritisation of new referrals.

To respect an individual's ethnicity and cultural and religious beliefs.

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Graduate Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy.
• State Registration with HCPC.

Previous Experience

• Significant broad‑based post registration experience at band 5 or above.
• Experience of working in an adult rehabilitation team environment.
• Experience of working within an MDT.
• Experience of working within the community.
• Experience of direct supervision of more junior staff.
• Experience of supervision of pre‑registration students.
• Experience of clinical audit, benchmarking, and evaluation of services.

Skills

• Good organisational, time management and prioritisation skills.
• Demonstrable skills in assessing patients with complex conditions, identifying problems and selecting and implementing a relevant treatment/management programme.
• Developed skills in rehabilitation.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate sensitive and complex information within different settings, good negotiation skills.
• Understanding of issues related to working within a multi‑cultural community.
• An understanding of and commitment to maintaining client confidentiality.
• Understanding of manual handling and health and safety issues related to community working.
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and evidence‑based practice.
• Ability to demonstrate skill‑sharing and collaborative working at a variety of levels.
• Able to manage own caseload and work autonomously in the community and domiciliary settings.
• Ability to seek specialist advice as appropriate.
• Ability to analyse and understand complex information and communicate appropriately.
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the implications of disability on people's lives.

Physical Requirements

• Fit for active physical workload and resilient under reasonable pressure of work.
• Able to travel around Lambeth.

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£46,419 to £55,046 a year pa inc. H.C.A (pro rata)