Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-8173904
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free Hospital
- Town
- Hampstead
- Salary
- £47,951 - £56,863 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Specialist Rotational Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
To provide a high standard of specialist physiotherapy service to a wide
range of Physiotherapy in-patients. This post consists of 9 monthly
rotations in the following clinical areas:
- Health Services for Elderly People. (HSEP)
- Rapid Response ( A+E and acute medicine )
- Oncology
- Respiratory
- General surgery and Liver Transplantation
- Renal
- Vascular Surgery and Amputees
Main duties of the job
To assess and treat own caseload of patients as an autonomous and
independent practitioner for patients who may have acute, chronic
complex presentation, and maintain appropriate treatment plans, and/or records and statistics.
- To participate in the weekend and on call rota
- Supervise and teach junior therapists, students and assistants
- To be involved in the teaching of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), staff and patient education groups.
-Undertake and present evidence-based projects and research including departmental audit and suggesting practice changes, under the supervision of line supervisor.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for more information about this role and working at royal free London NHS foundation Trust
Person specification
Royal Free shared commitments
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree/ graduate diploma or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- • Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration as a physiotherapist
- • Certificated graduate courses or equivalent in-house training in clinical specialty areas
Desirable criteria
- • Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
- • Membership of special interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Active participation in an audit or project work
- • Good understanding of relevant clinical guidelines
- • Broad range of clinical experience at a Band 5 level or above
- • Experience of working in an acute, hospital-based setting, including working within an MDT
- • Presentations to a range of groups
- • Teaching/training of staff or students
- • Supervision of more junior staff, assistants and/students
- • Computer literate, to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- • Evidence of CPD
- • Experience of weekend working and emergency on-call working
Desirable criteria
- • Motivational Interviewing/ Behaviour Change training (CBT or facilitation skills)
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of specialist clinical skills and core Physiotherapy skills
- • Ability to work effectively within different teams both multi and uni-disciplinary
- • Ability to communicate with community partners and external agencies especially to facilitate safe and timel hospital discharge
- • Ability to be proactive in service development
- • Ability to critically evaluate current research & apply to own practice
- • Ability to recognise unacceptable behaviour and act on this appropriately
Personal qualities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Strong interpersonal skills and assertiveness
- Negotiation skills
- Positive attitude to change
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Demonstrates Trust Shared Commitments
- Professional integrity
- Physically fit and able to comply with manual handling requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abigail Greenwell
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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