Community Specialist Physiotherapist - Northwich in Newcastle upon Tyne

Community Specialist Physiotherapist - Northwich

Band 6

Main area Specialist Community Physiotherapist Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 34 hours per week (includes Urgent Care Response and 7 day working on a rota basis, alongside core working hours.) Job ref 412-COMM-8344042

Site Victoria Infirmary Town Northwich Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 12/11/2026 23:59

Want to work somewhere you can really make a difference? Somewhere you’re encouraged to have ideas and empowered to create positive change?

Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) deliver NHS Community Services across Cheshire. With a wide range of clinical disciplines, we are a dynamic, future-facing organisation passionate about delivering the highest quality healthcare whilst collaborating with our community partners.

We foster a culture of continuous improvement, built on compassion.

• Over 83% of staff would recommend CCICP as a place to work
• 90% of staff say the people they work with show appreciation to each other
• 88% staff say that patient care/service users are the organisations top priority
• Over 70% of staff believe there are opportunities for them to develop their career
• If a friend or relative needed treatment 81% of staff are happy with the standard of care provided

We are recognised nationally

• With over 24 Queen’s Nurses (and growing) we have one of the highest percentages proportionate to the size of our team
• Nursing Times Award winners in 2023 and finalists in 2024 for a Bladder and Bowl project. Our specialist Stoma service is currently shortlisted for a Nursing Times and British Journal of Nursing awards.
• Two Specialist clinicians have recently had their work recognised by Wounds UK
• Leighton Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, run by CCICP, was reviewed by Care Quality Commission and awarded the highest score in the North West

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join the Northwich community therapy team has arisen. Come and join our amazing, friendly and supportive team! Your role will assess, manage and provide treatment to a community caseload of patients with complex and/or multiple therapy needs. You will be lone working on a daily basis and will have MDT and peer support with the Northwich team. There may be an expectation to work between multiple sites in the organisation.

This is a permanent post.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and flexible physiotherapist to join our friendly, supportive and dynamic team in the community in Northwich, within CCICP.

Your role will assess, manage and provide treatment to a caseload of patients with complex and/or multiple therapy needs.

There is a varied caseload and you will need to demonstrate knowledge, experience and relevant clinical skills with patients with complex / long term conditions, falls, orthopaedics, general mobility problems and neurological conditions.

The successful candidate will work as a member of our integrated multidisciplinary team alongside Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants, District Nurses, Complex Care Practitioners, Advanced Community Practitioners, Macmillan team and will be responsible for supervising junior members of staff and students.

There will be associated administrative duties and you will need to be computer literate with a good knowledge of Microsoft packages and have accurate keyboard skills.Our team utilises digital technology to support remote working and accommodate a flexible working approach where possible and is supported to do this with access to a laptop.

You are required to be a car driver and have access to your own vehicle.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice

Health and care professionals working at the level of specialist should be able to:

• Manage a clinical caseload with autonomy, work without direct supervision
• Undertake comprehensive physiotherapy assessment, provide a therapeutic diagnosis (using investigative and advanced analytical skills, specialist listening, physical and observational skills, interpret clinical findings and documentation) and implement agreed treatment plans if appropriate, including the treatment of complex service users with multiple pathologies in a manner that respects people’s privacy dignity and individuality
• Provide individual or group therapy as appropriate to setting
• Implement monitoring and evaluation of treatment in order to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness of interventions and service delivery
• Develop programmes of care to support discharge from service
• Be responsible for equipment used in carrying out clinical duties, and to adhere to policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice
• Record, maintain and store accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal and local requirements. Communicate outcomes of assessments/intervention to appropriate disciplines in form of letters/reports/discharge summaries
• Arrange appointments (as applicable), work closely with MDT, attend case reviews/case conferences/variety of MDT internal and external meetings/forums
• Contribute to the safeguarding of our Service users/families as appropriate
• Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with service users including those service users who lack capacity to consent to treatment, within your organisation’s policies.
• Be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of Service users under your care
• Maintain professional registration with HCPC
• Work within organisation, HCPC and CSP guidelines
• Have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practise against these
• Work as part of a team to ensure effective communication and delivery of care
• Provide and receive, with care and integrity, sensitive information about service users from the service user, carer and other professionals and to manage sensitive or contentious information appropriately
• Work in an empathic manner in partnership with service users, carers and families, where there are barriers to understanding and differences in the way the service user communicates e.g. sign language. To alter approaches to a relevant level for the service user to be as actively involved in their own care.
• Communicate effectively with service users and carers/relatives to progress specific rehabilitation and treatment programme. Providing and receiving complex information using a range of verbal/non-verbal communication skills, persuading/influencing
• Use appropriate communication skills to overcome significant barriers to acceptance of sensitive information.

Leadership and Management

• Communicate effectively with a range of professionals both within the organisation and with external agencies, including primary care, social service and voluntary organisations
• Provide the Band 7 Physiotherapists / Managers with information to assist planning and development of the service, to assist team leader in planning of longer term strategic plans to develop the therapy service.
• Assist the Managers in achieving the departmental objectives and supporting an open style of leadership
• Actively participate in the professional development programme of the therapy service
• Provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals
• Be involved in the daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area.
• Participate in the operational planning and implementation of policy and service development within your team, leading on delegated projects
• Undertake any other duties that might be considered appropriate by senior staff and deputise in their absence as required.
• Be aware of the financial impact of clinical decisions
• Support therapy team in ensuring adequate levels of stock are available as required in line with your organisations stock management policy

Education

• Organise and lead in-service training programmes for Band 5 Therapists and Assistants under the guidance of Band 7 staff when required.
• Critically evaluate current research and apply to practice. Demonstrate an understanding and application of national guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care and their impact of service provision.
• Train, supervise and support less experienced therapy staff, therapy assistants and students. This may include formal staff appraisals.
• Maintain own competency to practice, through participation in internal and external development opportunities evidenced by a professional portfolio for Continuing Professional Development.
• Demonstrate acquired specialist skills and knowledge of professional practice in order to maintain fitness to practice as a Physiotherapist.
• Work within organisation and department policies and comply with HCPC Code of Conduct.
• Keep up to date with all mandatory training requirements within the organisation.
• Participate in the evaluation of clinical practice and disseminate across relevant areas.

Research, Audit and Governance

• Undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of evidence based practice projects, audit and outcome measures.
• Provide representation at local meetings/ specific interest groups and attendance at national meetings, under guidance of more experienced staff. Make recommendation for change and to implement change under supervision.
• Undertake audit and contribute to regional/national level as appropriate.
• Support research activity with the service.
• Disseminate findings from audit and evaluation results to relevant areas

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree in physiotherapy

Registration

• HCPC registered
• CSP registered

Experience

• Previous experience of working in the NHS
• Experience of working in a community setting
• Completion of band 5 rotation
• Student educator or experience of having students
• Experience of audits
• Experience of urgent care response working

Communication

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of using electronic patient records

We offer enviable benefits* which include:

• Recognition: monthly 'Because You Matter' awards, with an annual awards celebration. CCICP Star of the Month acknowledgements
• Flexible working, tailored to the service, role and individual
• Training and development opportunities
• Mentoring and coaching
• Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus bank holidays. Increasing with length of service. Option to buy / sell annual leave.
• Fast track physiotherapy access
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption leave pay
• Sick pay
• Access to free counselling service 24/7
• Carers leave
• Free Flu and Covid Vaccinations
• Discounted complimentary therapies
• Access to hundreds of staff discounts nationally and locally
• Cycle to work scheme
• Long service awards for all NHS service

KEY MESSAGES

• Please let us know if you require an adjustment to our recruitment process.
• All correspondence will be sent via the email address you have registered as your TRAC account.
• Selection is based on the Trust's values, and the criteria outlined in the Job Description for the role.
• Employers have a legal responsibility to ensure that their employees have a “right to work” in the UK. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust hold a Sponsor Licence, which means that we MAY be able to sponsor you IF the role meets the UK Government requirements for sponsorship. Not all NHS roles are eligible for sponsorship. To be eligible for sponsorship, the role must be in an eligible occupation code and must meet the skill level and the minimum salary threshold (usually £38,700 per year for Skilled Worker or £23,200 for Health Care Worker Visa). You can find more information on the Government website.
• Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the entry point (bottom) of the pay band.
• Appointments are subject to a 6-month probationary period. LED Doctors are subject to a 3-month probationary period.
• Please provide a contact email address for referees when you submit your application. We will not request any references until after you have been made a formal job offer.
• You will be required to pay for your DBS disclosure (where the post requires one). This will be done via 3 monthly instalments from your pay. We encourage applicants to join and remain registered with the DBS update service.
• We do not reimburse travel to interview expenses.
• Secondments will be considered for fixed term positions when both parties agree. Candidates should seek approval from their current line manager before application

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Helen Whitlam Job title Northwich Community Therapy Team Lead Email address helen.whitlam@mcht.nhs.uk Telephone number 07917159861

If you have problems applying, contact

Address Leighton Hospital
Middlewich Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 4QJ
Telephone jennifer.burkquest@mcht.nhs.uk

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