Senior Community Physiotherapist in Bristol

We are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated Senior Physiotherapist to join our Integrated Network Teams (INTs) in South Gloucestershire. If you are passionate about delivering high-quality, community therapy and improving quality of life—preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and promoting independence at home—we would love to hear from you. In return, we are committed to supporting ongoing professional development.

You will have opportunities to develop specialist community-based skills, strengthen multidisciplinary working, and gain experience in supporting and supervising colleagues, alongside building key leadership capabilities. Our INTs are an innovative and dynamic service, providing function-based rehabilitation via support worker visits guided by therapists’ care plans. These visits focus on activities of daily living within individuals’ homes, helping maximise functional potential and maintain independence. Therapists play a vital role in supporting hospital discharges, preventing admissions, and enabling long-term self-management—empowering patients to live well at home; working closely with local authority partners to ensure individuals requiring longer-term rehabilitation or care are referred appropriately.

You will be part of a friendly, supportive multidisciplinary team, working alongside AHPs, Nurses, Specialist Practitioners, Support Workers, and administrative staff. There is frequent, collaborative cross-disciplinary working between AHPs/nursing.

Main duties of the job:

• Initial holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients who are acutely and chronically unwell; often with complex needs.
• Use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient-centred intervention programmes using an evidence-based practice approach, promoting high quality and harm-free care.
• Responsible for proactive service and own caseload management.
• Responsible for allocation of work and efficient service/team coordination.
• Develop and maintain strong, communicative working relationships to prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate timely discharges.
• Collaborate and negotiate with service users, carers and family in identifying achievable goals as part of the overall care plan to maximise quality of life and independence.
• Facilitate appropriate referrals to other services based on your assessment.
• Assess and arrange the provision of equipment within scope of practice; reporting any issues.
• Take responsibility for the development of other members of the INT including peers, junior staff, and students.
• Maintain accurate, informative and legal records.
• Actively participate in training; this may involve assisting in the delivery.
• Identify risks and act accordingly to minimise risk to self, colleagues and service users.
• Actively support junior colleagues within the team on a day-to-day basis.
• Proactive engagement in improving service delivery & implementing service changes.

Qualifications:

• BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy and HCPC registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning.
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Explain how you have effectively led a team with senior support when required.
• Explain how you've made clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions.
• Explain how you're able to work autonomously, with the ability to know when to seek appropriate advice/guidance from senior staff.
• Experience of supervising staff and students of own profession.
• Effective time management and caseload management.
• Recent relevant experience within the community setting.
• Working with a range of professionals in health or social care.
• Experience of supervising staff and students from other professions.

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.