Specialist Physiotherapist

HCRG Care Group; Sittingbourne; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Earned wage access

Wellbeing support

Professional development

Innovation funding

Good/Outstanding ratings

Job summary

HCRG Care Group seeks a Specialist Physiotherapist to help launch a new Intermediate Care and Reablement service for Medway. You will assess, treat and rehabilitate adults with complex conditions across community and intermediate care settings, enabling independence and safe discharges.

You’ll lead and coordinate therapy within the team, contribute to service development and ongoing quality improvements, and support colleagues and learners while working under Band 7 terms with NHS pension.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy (Essential).
• Current HCPC registration (Essential).
• Significant post-registration Physiotherapy experience (Essential).
• Experience at Band 6 level or above (Essential).
• Experience in rehabilitation, intermediate care or community services (Essential).
• Excellent communication, organisational and time management skills (Essential).
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for adults with complex conditions.
• Work autonomously across community and intermediate care settings to support recovery and independence.
• Manage a diverse, complex caseload with comprehensive assessments and personalised plans.
• Provide leadership and support across the therapy team; contribute to service development and learning.

Skills

HCPC registration

Post-registration experience

Band 6+ experience

Rehabilitation experience

Complex caseload management

Communication & time management

Driving licence

Education

Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy

Job description

Are you an experienced Physiotherapist looking for an opportunity to help shape a brand new service and make a lasting difference to people across Medway?HCRG Care Group is proud to have been chosen by Medway Council to deliver the Intermediate Care and Reablement Service from 1 October. As we launch this exciting new service, we are looking for a Specialist Physiotherapist to join our growing team and play a key role in supporting people to recover, regain independence and achieve the outcomes that matter most to them.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a service at the beginning of its journey. Working alongside colleagues across health and social care, you will help develop and deliver high-quality rehabilitation and reablement pathways that support a Home First approach, improve patient outcomes and enable people to live as independently as possible within their own homes and communities.

Package Description

• NHS Agenda for Change Band 7 salary with an NHS pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers for treats and essentials
• Access to your wages as you earn them, helping cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing
• Online and in-person wellbeing support, including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
• Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and professional development opportunities through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning Enterprise team
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to contribute ideas, backed by ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation where the majority of our rated services hold ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities

As a Specialist Physiotherapist, you will provide specialist assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for adults with a wide range of complex physical, medical, surgical and neurological conditions. Working autonomously across community and intermediate care settings, you will support people to achieve their rehabilitation goals, maximise their functional ability and maintain their independence.

You will manage a diverse and complex caseload, undertaking comprehensive assessments and developing personalised treatment plans that support recovery and reablement. Working closely with patients, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues, you will help facilitate safe and timely hospital discharge, reduce unnecessary admissions and support individuals to remain within their own homes wherever possible.

Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will provide leadership and support across the therapy team, helping to coordinate rehabilitation provision and promote a consistent, person-centred approach to care. You will contribute to service development, quality improvement and the ongoing growth of this exciting new service, while supporting colleagues through supervision, teaching and shared learning.

Person Specification

Essential

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Current HCPC registration
• Significant post-registration Physiotherapy experience
• Experience working at Band 6 level or above
• Experience working within rehabilitation, intermediate care, community services or a similar environment
• Experience managing complex clinical caseloads
• Strong knowledge of physiotherapy assessment and treatment
• Excellent clinical reasoning and decision-making skills
• Knowledge of rehabilitation, reablement and Home First principles
• Experience working effectively within multidisciplinary teams
• Experience supporting or supervising junior colleagues and students
• Excellent communication, organisational and time management skills
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

Desirable

• Community Physiotherapy experience
• Experience working within an Intermediate Care or Reablement service
• Experience participating in clinical audit, quality improvement or service development activities
• Experience coordinating therapy provision or acting in a clinical leadership capacity
• Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Relevant postgraduate qualification or specialist training
• Knowledge of local health and social care services

About the Company

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.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Questions about the role? Feel free to reach out to Sam on [phone] or [e-mail].