Senior Physiotherapist

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
• Current HCPC registration
• Evidence of up to date CPD portfolio
• Attendance at specialist short courses or equivalent CPD activities within the specialist areas of Adult Rehabilitation or older people

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate degree in relevant area
• Further desirable qualifications in Primary Care/ Accident & Emergency/ acute clinical assessment.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience working at a senior level in a wide range of clinical areas including, neurology, general rehabilitation, falls, frailty, elderly medicine.
• Extensive experience in Primary/Secondary Care and/ or Accident & Emergency
• Proven experience in utilising expert diagnostic and clinical skills to provide autonomous, unscheduled medical care and manage patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions.
• Experience in assessing and providing quality care to people with Long Term Conditions
• Track record of practice excellence.
• Experience in effectively working in collaboration, negotiating, and liaising across organisational boundaries.
• Experience in monitoring clinical standards.
• Proven ability to prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision.
• Experience determining the best ongoing care for the patient.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of wide range of specialist services eg. falls services, wheelchair services, and learning disabilities.
• Experience in team/service/ staff management.
• Experience working as a Band 6 Physiotherapist
• Experience of community rehabilitation
• Experience of working in the NHS

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Skills in the assessment and treatment of adults with complex therapy needs
• Knowledge and understanding of complex medical conditions including ie. neurology, multi-pathologies and falls
• Knowledge of role of Allied Health Professionals and interdisciplinary team working
• Ability to apply core physiotherapy skills across a range of clinical conditions within a client centered, goal setting
• Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence based practice relevant to Physiotherapy practice in community
• Knowledge of the NICE falls guidelines, National Stroke Strategy, Clinical Guidelines for Stroke and the National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions
• Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate clinical reasoning
• Teaching of junior staff / students, peers in in service training setting
• Knowledge and understanding of the role of Social Services and voluntary agencies

Desirable criteria

• Supervision of assistant / junior staff
• Knowledge and experience in research and audit
• Knowledge and understanding of National Service Framework for Older People, NICE Guidance and Clinical Guidelines for progressive conditions
• Knowledge and understanding of NICE and CSP/COT Fallers Guidelines

Other

Essential criteria

• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Band 7 Senior Physio (PDF, 696.3KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 439.8KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 713.2KB)