Job summary
- Main area
- BHRUT Therapies
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 162-7949-CCS
- Employer
- Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen's Hospital
- Town
- Romford
- Salary
- £45,953 - £54,254 Per Annum Inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist Acute Frailty Therapy Team
Band 6
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our fast paced and dynamic Acute Frailty Therapy Team in Queen’s Hospital.
As a Band 6 Physiotherapist in a large and busy team you will be required to demonstrate leadership skills and be confident to work as an autonomous practitioner with a focus on early assessment and discharge planning, with rapid and robust decision-making essential for efficient patient flow.
You will be familiar with the assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, cognitive, and psychological health conditions within elderly and medical specialities to develop and deliver treatment and discharge plans.
The Team works closely with the larger Multidisciplinary Team to care for acutely unwell frail patients attending the hospital and through collaborative decision making with our colleagues we facilitate safe and rapid discharge from hospital. We are based in Queen’s Emergency Department, Frailty SDEC, Medical SDEC, Queen’s Frailty Unit and an elderly inpatient ward in Queen’s Hospital.
The team is an integrated service with Occupational Therapy, and you will be supported by Band 7 Physiotherapists, a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist and a Band 8a Clinical Lead. The team is very supportive and there are lots of opportunities to develop both clinical and non-clinical skills, with access to internal and external courses.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of physiotherapy service, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries
To fulfil a teaching and supervisory role with peers, Junior staff and Students on placement
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Pubudu Chandrasekera, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5110. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- H.C.P.C. Registration
- Evidence of recent and relevant CPD
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate clinical training
- Clinical supervisors training
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- Ability to work without supervision
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of limitations of own clinical practice and identify appropriate solutions
- Ability to demonstrate skills in assessment and treatment of acute patients in line with current practise and research
- Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession and their implications for practice
- Understand clinical governance and its implications for service delivery and demonstrate evidence of its clinical application i.e. audit
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information (verbal, non verbal and written) in an accurate, clear and logical manner
- Supervision of other staff i.e. assistants and technical instructors
- Ability to work at moderate to intense physical effort throughout the day
- Ability to cope working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- To have recent broad clinical experience during Band 5 rotations in an acute hospital setting
- Active participation of in service training
- Evidence of recent working within an acute hospital setting and treating patients with complex needs within the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Previous band 6 acute experience
- Recent clinical experience working in Emergency Department or Frailty Unit
- Training of physiotherapy students on placements.
- Participation in weekend rotas
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Linda Mugdenko
- Job title
- Band 7 Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01708435000
- Additional information
Ext 3157
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