Physiotherapist

Job Summary

Are you looking for a new challenge whilst working within the Community? We are looking for someone to act as a source of expertise on the assessment and management of patients presenting with a wide range of pathologies to physiotherapists, student physiotherapists, skilled non‑registered staff, other healthcare professionals, GPs, consultants, patients and their carers. Able to provide a high standard of physiotherapy service within Torbay. This will involve community rehabilitation, crisis response and intermediate care cover. You will be required to work between these areas depending on needs of the service; this will take part in the Baywide Intermediate Care weekend rota and late duty rota within the zone. This may also include from time to time covering other localities within the Trust.

Main Duties of the Job

• Deliver high quality care to the housebound patients of Torbay and work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team and in partnership with primary care and secondary care.
• Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, including professional and legal accountability and managing clinical risk for all aspects of own work. Some aspects of work will involve delivery of care as part of a multidisciplinary team. In most cases to be the sole health professional with responsibility for that patient\’s episode of care.
• Undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse or complex physical, psychological, cognitive and behavioural conditions in order to provide an accurate diagnosis and prognosis.
• Formulate and deliver individualised physiotherapy treatment programmes, including manual therapy techniques, therapeutic handling, patient education, electrotherapy, provision of exercise (individual or group), and other alternative options. This includes appropriate selection of referrals for inclusion in a range of treatment programmes, one‑to‑one sessions using advanced treatment options, advanced communication, questioning and reasoning skills.

About Us

Torquay Health and Well‑Being Team are a large but supportive team who enjoys mentoring team members and students and is passionate about delivering quality care to the housebound patients. We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a health work/home life balance.

Details

• Date posted: 05 November 2025
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part‑time
• Reference number: 388‑7265325‑AHP‑D
• Job locations: Union House, Union Street, Torquay, TQ13YA

Job Responsibilities

• Diploma/degree in physiotherapy; state registration current HCPC certificate.
• Working knowledge of a broad range of musculoskeletal, neurological and medical conditions common in the elderly.
• Experience of working in inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
• Carry out assessments and treatments of people with severe physical, cognitive, behavioural and sensory impairment and poor mobility with frequent intense physical effort daily e.g. handling of heavy body parts. This may include several short periods of static postures such as kneeling, crouching, crawling, twisting, bending and stretching daily.

Person Specification

• Essential qualifications and training:
  Diploma/degree in physiotherapy; state registration – current HCPC certificate.
  Experience within the NHS, including experience as a junior in a broad rotational post covering a range of orthopaedics, elderly care, medical, surgical, neurological and musculoskeletal conditions.
  Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical field.
• Desirable qualifications and training: Postgraduate training/experience in rehabilitation and elderly care.
• Essential knowledge and experience: Working knowledge of a broad range of musculoskeletal, neurological and medical conditions common in the elderly.
  Knowledge of the relevant NSFs and clinical guidelines.
  Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
  Experience supervising student physiotherapists or physiotherapy assistant/technical instructors/support workers.
  Some experience working with a biopsychosocial approach to assessment and treatment.
  Experience of working in inpatient, outpatient and community settings.
• Desirable knowledge and experience: Experience of primary care rehabilitation.
  Knowledge of the safeguarding adults process.
• Essential specific skills: An understanding of Clinical Governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and participation in research and audit.
  Competent IT skills.
• Desirable specific skills: Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation surrounding health and adult social care.
• Essential requirements due to work environment/conditions: Ability to maintain judgement under pressure.
  Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
  Presentation skills.
  Ability to contribute to weekend/evening working rosters.
  Ability to work alone assessing and managing risk; clinical workload involves daily/weekly/monthly domiciliary visits with telephone support from the physiotherapy lead if required, and lone working during the out of hours service.
  Ability to be mobile in the South Devon area to complete community visits and attend meetings.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Details

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Union House, Union Street, Torquay, TQ13YA

https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)