Job summary
Make a meaningful difference to the lives of adults with learning disabilities by delivering compassionate, highquality community physiotherapy.
In this role, you will provide holistic physiotherapy services across Wiltshire, supporting individuals with multiple and profound learning disabilities, alongside associated emotional, mental health needs, and behaviours that challenge.
You will practice with a high level of autonomy while being an integral member of a multidisciplinary, integrated team focused on personcentred care. Working in close partnership with service users, carers, families, and wider professional networks, you will help shape positive outcomes and coordinated care pathways. The role also includes supervising and supporting junior staff and deputising for the Lead Physiotherapist when required, offering an opportunity to influence both clinical practice and service development.
Main duties of the job
- Work autonomously within an integrated multidisciplinary team, taking professional and legal responsibility for all aspects of clinical practice.
- Manage a specialist caseload of adults with learning disabilities, many with profound and multiple needs, complex health conditions, mental health difficulties, and behaviours that challenge, using a personcentred, evidencebased approach.
- Undertake comprehensive physiotherapy assessments using advanced clinical reasoning, taking account of social, emotional, and environmental factors.
- Develop and deliver individualised, highquality physiotherapy and physical management programmes, agreeing goals and outcome measures with service users and/or carers.
- Produce accessible physiotherapy programmes and resources (e.g. pictorial or photographic materials) to support understanding and engagement for service users and carers.
About us
You will join a friendly, supportive team where multidisciplinary working is at the heart of what we do. Colleagues describe us as collaborative, compassionate and always willing to share knowledge and ideas. You'll have the autonomy to manage your caseload, with the support of the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to help you continue developing your specialist skills.
As a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist, you'll benefit from:
- NHS Agenda for Change Band 6 salary with an NHS pension
- Membership of My Reward Hub for discounts, cashback and voucher offers
- Access to your wages as you earn them
- 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 through our Outstanding Learning Enterprise team
- An open, just culture with ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation where most rated services are Good or Outstanding
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist, you will be part of our valued team in our Adult Physio Service, 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 lifes 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 youre 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
Essential Qualifications
- Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Current HCPC registration
Essential Skills and Experience
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and commitment to professional development
- Significant postqualification experience as a physiotherapist in relevant settings (e.g. learning disability, complex disability, community, neurology, or older peoples services)
- Experience working autonomously within the NHS
- Proven experience of multidisciplinary working and partnership with external agencies
- Experience of supervising, training, or mentoring staff or students
- Strong clinical assessment and treatment skills
- Ability to work safely without direct supervision and reflect on own practice
- Excellent communication skills, including adapting communication to meet a wide range of needs
- Strong organisational, timemanagement, and prioritisation skills
- Ability to build effective working relationships and collaborate within a team
- Competent IT skills (e.g. Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to present information in different formats
- Physical capability to undertake physiotherapy interventions, including manual handling, in a range of settings
- Access to own transport and ability to travel between locations
- Good standard of written and spoken English
Other Essential Requirements
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
- Willingness to travel across the BSW area
- High level of selfmotivation and flexibility
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist, you will be part of our valued team in our Adult Physio Service, 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 lifes 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 youre 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
Essential Qualifications
- Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Current HCPC registration
Essential Skills and Experience
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and commitment to professional development
- Significant postqualification experience as a physiotherapist in relevant settings (e.g. learning disability, complex disability, community, neurology, or older peoples services)
- Experience working autonomously within the NHS
- Proven experience of multidisciplinary working and partnership with external agencies
- Experience of supervising, training, or mentoring staff or students
- Strong clinical assessment and treatment skills
- Ability to work safely without direct supervision and reflect on own practice
- Excellent communication skills, including adapting communication to meet a wide range of needs
- Strong organisational, timemanagement, and prioritisation skills
- Ability to build effective working relationships and collaborate within a team
- Competent IT skills (e.g. Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to present information in different formats
- Physical capability to undertake physiotherapy interventions, including manual handling, in a range of settings
- Access to own transport and ability to travel between locations
- Good standard of written and spoken English
Other Essential Requirements
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
- Willingness to travel across the BSW area
- High level of selfmotivation and flexibility
Person Specification
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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.
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