Job summary
We have an opportunity for a Band 5 Physiotherapist to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic Therapy Team.

Are you a new graduate or existing Band 5 looking for the next step in your career, to develop your leadership skills and consolidate your clinical knowledge? Or are you a physiotherapist looking to return to practice?

Working across the fast paced environments of ED through to the respiratory community team, or from intensive care through to orthopaedic trauma wards we have rotations to suit everyone.

We offer the opportunity to gain clinical development in a variety of areas:

• Accident & Emergency, Urgent Care Wards
• Acute Medicine
• Orthopaedics - trauma , day case and elective
• Critical care and ICU, Respiratory Wards
• Fracture Clinic

We offer an established preceptorship programme for new graduates, extensive on-call and respiratory simulation training in our simulation lab, a Band 5 Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy development forum and mentorship to support your career development.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
• To plan and prioritise own patient caseload, working with direct support of a senior member of staff. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions and peer review.
• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• Assist in audit and/or research projects to further own and team's clinical practice within each rotation.
• To provide high quality, evidence-based care across the seven day service and participate in the oncall rota for adults, children and young people as the service requires.

About us
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.

Our Excellence Values

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.

UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.

Details
Date posted: 24 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
per annum/pro rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 264-8270624-CSS
Job locations: University Hospitals of Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, Kettering, NN16 8UZ, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
All band 5 posts offer the opportunity to acquire specialist skills across the clinical settings, these posts are ideal in not just developing your clinical skills but developing key leadership roles in the service. The post is full-time, all physiotherapists work across 7 days with the addition of overnight on-calls 7 days a week. You will need to be a car driver or be able to travel to the trust within 45 minutes when responding to oncalls (24 hours).

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document

Person Specification
Qualification
Essential

• Professional Physiotherapy qualification.
• State Registered Physiotherapist

Desirable

• Member of CSP

Knowledge/Experience
Essential

• Good range of core pre-reg student placements
• Previous experience of working within an Acute NHS setting
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.

Desirable

• Previous working in a care / public sector environment

Skills
Essential

• Evidence of well-developed good clinical reasoning skills.
• Proven Physiotherapy Respiratory skills appropriate to Band 5 level
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of Physiotherapy working practices within an Acute NHS setting.
• Good communication and customer service skills.
• Able to undertake moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day
• Ability to keep accurate and legible notes.
• Evidence of having developed a wide clinical knowledge base within student placements and early professional career.
• Good awareness of national and NHS strategies
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the principles underlying the appropriate delegation of tasks to others
• Ability to work across 7 day service and participate in the overnight oncall rota (adults, children and young people).
• Car driver or able to travel to the trust within 45 minutes when responding to oncalls (24 hours)

Desirable

• Evidence of post graduate training if not 1st post
• Ability to work in a stressful environment.
• Understanding of legal responsibilities of the profession.
• Presentation skills.
• Detailed knowledge of national strategies and impact on service provision.

Other
Essential

• Team worker.
• Prepared to be flexible in order to gain good rotation base within the Acute setting.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address: University Hospitals of Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, Kettering, NN16 8UZ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Rudo Chimera, rudo.chimera@nhs.net, 01536492388

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