Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1480
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Langley House, 698
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £20.06 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay, HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 10/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Specialist Neurological Physiotherapist
Band 6
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
Job Purpose
To perform physiotherapy assessment of patients with neurological presentations on the Stroke and neuro rehabilitation pathways to develop and deliver an individualised treatment program.
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate positive rehab outcomes and timely, co-ordinated discharge planning.
To fully support initiatives to reduce length of stay, including key working.
To work flexibly, being willing to provide support on other rehabilitation wards when necessary.
To hold responsibility for own caseload, working with and without direct supervision.
Provide support for the clinical supervision for a rotational Band 5 physiotherapist, student physiotherapists and give direction to members of support staff.
To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to inform own and general Physiotherapy practice within the unit.
To participate in a 7-day service covering weekends and bank holiday on a rota basis.
Main duties of the job
• To perform Specialist physiotherapy assessment for stroke and patients with neurological conditions.
To independently manage own clinical caseload, undertaking comprehensive neurological assessments and using advanced clinical reasoning skills to formulate and deliver individual and group treatment programmes.
To work alongside the Highly Specialist Neuro physiotherapy team lead with complex patients and be responsible for providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and treatment plans.
To advise and educate patients and their families/ carers on the management of individual problems. Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid and informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
Work effectively with those patients whose first language is not English and take into consideration diversity issues in particular differing cultural awareness.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
- Current HPC registration
- Evidence of up to date CPD portfolio,aattendance at specialist short courses or equivalent CPD activities within the specialist areas of Neuro Rehabilitation.
Desirable criteria
- Member of a Special Interest Group relevant to this post such as ACPIN
- Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience as a qualified physiotherapist, with both theoretical and practical knowledge across a broad range of Band 5 rotations, including Stroke/ Neurology/Neurosciences
- Experience at band 6 level in Stroke/ Neurology.
- Experience of carrying out a comprehensive neurological assessment to formulate a comprehensive neurological treatment plan and goals.
- Experience of using a wide range of neuro-physiotherapeutic interventions for the treatment of patients with neurological conditions.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience at Specialist Neuro Physiotherapist (Band 6) level in Neurology/ Stroke/ Neurosciences.
- Experience of working with patients with complex presentation which may include: Brain Injury, SCI, progressive neurological disorders.
- Experience of supervising and appraising other staff e.g. Band 5, rehabilitation assistants
- Experience of supervising physiotherapy students.
- Experience in service development projects
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Proven ability to assess and treat neurological patients with sound clinical reasoning and understanding of the rehabilitation process.
- Knowledge and experience of using a wide range of therapeutic physiotherapy interventions for the treatment of patients with stroke and neurological conditions.
- Knowledge and experience of using a range of recognized outcome measures and goal setting skills as appropriate to the rehabilitation of patients with a range of neurological conditions.
- Knowledge of barriers to communication and strategies to overcome them, including knowledge of communication difficulties encountered by neurological patients.
- Ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive information requiring empathy and reassurance.
- Good understanding of current NHS issues, professional standards, CPD, clinical governance.
- Able to work as an autonomous practitioner.
- Able to work with individuals and groups.
- Good communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format.
- Basic IT skills – Microsoft Word, Power point, Excel
- To have a full UK drivers’ license and have use of a car.(unless there is a condition/ disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use cognitive, behavioral and communication strategies to ensure optimal treatment outcomes and rehabilitation goals are met.
- Knowledge and experience in FES.
- Supervision of assistant / junior staff
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant, RCP, NICE and CSP guidelines
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richa Bhadra
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Neurological Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01923 686820
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