Job summary
Band 5 Rotational Physiotherapist - North Mid Community Team
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the North Mid Community Team as a Band 5 Rotational Physiotherapist. This role offers a varied and rewarding experience across 5 key rotations: Length 6-8 months per rotation

• Inpatient Rehabilitation- Magnolia Unit
• Adult Community Physiotherapy
• MSK Outpatients
• Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team
• Community Neuro Team

About the Service
Our Physiotherapy Service provides high-quality care to a multi-cultural and diverse population, delivering excellence in community-based physiotherapy. You will work alongside experienced clinicians or have access to senior staff during normal working hours.

We offer an excellent supervision and training programme within each rotation to support your professional development and enhance service delivery.

Main duties of the job

• Perform physiotherapeutic assessments for patients with a wide range of physical and psychological conditions.
• Provide clinical diagnoses and develop individualised treatment plans.
• Manage your own caseload and take responsibility for a defined area of the service or specific patient group.

You will work under supervision, which includes:

• Regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions
• Peer reviews, case discussions, and case conferences
• Access to senior physiotherapists for advice and support when needed

Your clinical work will be routinely evaluated to ensure high standards of care.

About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Job responsibilities

• Organise and plan your own caseload to meet service and patient priorities, adapting plans as situations change.
• Perform physiotherapeutic assessments, provide clinical diagnoses, and develop individualised treatment programmes.
• Collect data for service audits and monitoring service level agreements.
• Ensure safe and competent use of equipment, including teaching and supervising correct practice.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues to ensure seamless physiotherapy provision across different service areas.
• Maintain awareness of Health & Safety policies, promptly report incidents, and ensure safe equipment use.
• Comply with organisational and departmental policies and contribute to their review and update.
• Undertake other duties as required by the Physiotherapy Service Manager.

Person Specification
Education & Professional Qualifications
Essential

• Recognised Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registered.
• Evidence of ongoing relevant CPD in portfolio

Experience
Essential

• Broad undergraduate experience in core clinical areas
• Experience of working as part of a team
• A good working knowledge of the NHS system of care. (Trained or worked in the NHS)
• Awareness of current issues or developments pertinent to own profession including legal frameworks.

Desirable

• Working in a community setting

Skills and aptitudes
Essential

• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner.
• Ability to prioritise and manage own workload in a busy environment with supervision
• Ability to process, manage and communicate sensitive information in relation to patient care and convey this in an appropriate and clear manner.
• Fluent in written and spoken English including the ability to write straightforward letters and reports to a professional standard.
• To recognise potentially difficult situations and when to seek appropriate help.

Desirable

• Fluent in any other local language

Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential

• Reliable, flexible, motivated, diplomatic team worker who demonstrates appropriate initiative and good time management
• A strong commitment to patient care.

Other
Essential

• Car owner/ driver with valid UK driving license with access to car for work use

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.

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).

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