Senior Physiotherapist - IRS

Job overview

As a Band 6 Physiotherapist within the Intensive Rehabilitation Service, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, timely rehabilitation for patients who require step-up support from community teams or step-down rehabilitation from acute or community beds.

This is a dynamic, community-based role where you will provide goal-orientated, patient-centred rehabilitation in patients’ own homes rather than in a bed-based setting. You will work within a supportive multi-professional team to promote self-management, independence, and continuity of care throughout each patient’s rehabilitation journey.

You will hold responsibility for your own delegated caseload—assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating physiotherapy interventions while maintaining full professional and legal accountability as an HCPC-registered practitioner.

A core part of the role includes ensuring safe onward transition by coordinating and referring to wider health and social care services at the end of an IRS episode, enabling patients to continue progressing safely within the community.

You will contribute to a positive team culture by supporting colleagues, working collaboratively across disciplines and agencies, and using your clinical reasoning, initiative, and leadership to deliver excellent community rehabilitation.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. If you have previously applied for this role, please ensure you demonstrate how your skills or experience have developed since your last application

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• To prioritise workload, delegate and to supervise more junior staff including support staff and students, to aid provision of high standards of patient care.

Clinical Skills

• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.

Computer / Administration

• To be responsible for maintaining accurate and evaluative/comprehensive patient records in accordance with the service/trust standards on record keeping and in line with CSP standards of practice and to support more junior staff and locum staff to do likewise.

Communication

• To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working.

Training

• Maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence-based practice for conditions and treatments and inform more junior staff of such developments.

Summary of Core Responsibilities

In this role, you will independently manage a clinical caseload, delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred rehabilitation within the community. You will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team while supporting and guiding junior colleagues. Strong clinical reasoning, effective communication, accurate documentation, and a commitment to ongoing professional development are essential. You will contribute to safe, coordinated care pathways and uphold the highest professional and regulatory standards in all aspects of practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities is attached.

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co‑produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are:

We are kind.

We are respectful.

We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop‑in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Select One:

High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London

(B&D, Redbridge, Havering and Waltham Forest, Goodmayes)

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,870 to a maximum of £6,137 p.a. pro rata for part time).

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

Use of AI

Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.

Working for Us

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.