Senior Physiotherapist

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board. 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, Essex, Kent, and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT. Job overview We are seeking a motivated and dynamic Band 7 Physiotherapist with a passion for general physical rehabilitation to work within NELFT's London-based Inpatient rehabilitation unit supporting patients to recover after illness and injury. As the Band 7 physiotherapist within inpatient rehabilitation, you will lead the physiotherapy team, supporting them by providing training, supervision, and joint sessions. You will have a caseload of rehabilitation patients, as well as an overview of the wards and other physiotherapists' caseloads. You will work closely with the band 8a managers to ensure governance is in place and maintained, strongly focusing on clinical excellence and putting the patients at the heart of everything we do. If you are interested in coming to work for NELFT and meet our criteria, we would welcome your application. Main duties of the job To work flexibly and assist in effective and efficient delivery of the service. To prioritise workload, delegate, and supervise more junior staff including support staff and students, to aid provision of high standards of patient care. To assess and be able to offer advice on the physiotherapy needs of a defined patient group and establish and evaluate appropriate treatment plans. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. To be involved with continuous service improvement working within the team to ensure best practice at all times. Person specification Qualifications BSc(hons) Physiotherapy Degree or equivalent HCPC Registered Experience 5 years post grad experience working as a physiotherapist NHS experience Community experience Skills Excellent communication skills Efficient means of travel within the community Benefits We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions, and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations, and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Equal opportunities employer We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic. We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email

recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk .

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