Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 21 hours per week
- Job ref
- 176-F-7808220-A
- Employer
- North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hinchingbrooke Hospital
- Town
- Huntingdon
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Physiotherapist
Band 6
Job overview
Are you enthusiastic and motivated? Do you relish a challenge? Are you innovative, dynamic and a good problem solver? This exciting role could be for you.
If you are an experienced Band 6 or a Band 5 Registered Physiotherapist looking for a developmental role to take you to your next step in your career, we want to hear from you.
You will be joining our thriving Medical Team at Hinchingbrooke Hospital which consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and support staff, and is responsible for the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of patients to facilitate safe, timely discharges. This role is required to support Respiratory on-call rota.
We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge and developing your managerial and leadership skills supporting with;
· Peer & senior support
· Supervision
· Protected non-clinical time
· CPD opportunities
· Student education
· Appraisals
· Specialty workstreams; MSCC, Parkinson’s Disease, falls & frailty, neurology and dementia & delirium
· Cross site & regional professional meetings
If you would like further information, please contact Rebecca Murphy, Highly Specialist Team Lead Physio on [email protected]
Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively.
Main duties of the job
- To enable Physiotherapy to provide Therapy Skills within the inpatient service
- To ensure safe, efficient and effective delivery of patient focussed care in line with identified evidence based practice, local and national standards
- To work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary and Multi-agency Teams
- To participate in delegated projects for service development with the team
- To act autonomously in the assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have a complex presentation
- To demonstrate a flexible approach to working in support of the whole in patient/outpatient team
- To undertake weekend working as required within service developments
- To be available to provide Clinical Supervision
- This role entails 80% Clinical Contact and 20% Operational Management as appropriate within team requirements
- To guide Band 5 and support staff in the management and delivery of therapeutic care plans
Working for our organisation
Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the person specification and job description for more details regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- HCPC Registered
- Evidence of CPD
- Evidence of post graduate training/qualification relevant to clinical area
- CSP member
- Member of CSP Specialist section – Agile People
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership or management training
Experience
Essential criteria
- NHS experience working at senior level
- Acute Respiratory skills incl. on call
- Worked within acute inpatient hospital environment
- Multi-Disciplinary Working
- Awareness of change management principles
- Supervising and mentoring junior members of staff and pre-registration students
Desirable criteria
- Experience in community-based roles
- Demonstrate active involvement in the audit process
- Undertaking Annual Appraisals
- Experience of developing staff and sharing knowledge
- Ability to demonstrate working with regional/national networks
- Experience of working collaboratively with community teams
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Sound respiratory knowledge
- Sound knowledge of the multi-disciplinary team within Medicine for Older People and respiratory medicine
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of services available to support effective discharge
Key skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to undertake rapid assessments in a busy and pressured environment
- Excellent managerial and leadership skills
- Advanced communication skills
- Evidence of resilience
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Leadership and motivational skills
- High level of clinical reasoning
- Ability to present information in a logical and concise manner
- Standard key board skills & the ability to use IT packages such as Word, Outlook, Power point & Excel
Other
Essential criteria
- Awareness and respect for colleagues, patients and relatives cultural, religious and emotional needs and beliefs
- Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours
- Be prepared to work across sites as and when required
- Professional appearance & behaviour
- Good previous attendance record
- Ability to work across 7 days a week
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
- Rebecca Murphy
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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