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Job summary

Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-3716
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Haringey Stroke Team, Stuart Crescent Health Centre
Town
Wood Green
Salary
£44,485 - £52,521 per annum including Outer HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/03/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Specialist Community Physiotherapist

Band 6

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

 


 

Job overview

 To provide high quality effective physiotherapy assessment and short term treatment/management programmes for adults presenting with a range of conditions in Haringey, who require a community based rehabilitation service.

To use specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills to manage own complex caseload, as an autonomous practitioner.

To act as a source of expertise on falls, orthopaedic and community rehabilitation liaising closely with specialist services; providing advice to patients, carers, all grades of physiotherapists, other health care professionals, consultants, general practitioners and social services.

Please see the attached Job description for more information about this role.

 

Main duties of the job

To deliver patient care based on principles of best practice, achievable through direct patient contact or via supervision.

To carry out specialist, comprehensive assessments of patients with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills formulating individualised management and treatment plans.

To provide specialised physiotherapy interventions at home or in a community setting as required, collaborating with colleagues in the community and secondary care health professionals to promote continuity of care.

To identify own learning needs related to clinical knowledge and skills in the management of patients following stroke and with long term neurological conditions.

To support in the delivery of multidisciplinary education and training.

To access further education programmes to develop knowledge and skills, and to share learning with the wider team.

To support in the monitoring of the effectiveness of the community therapy service through the collation of data for ongoing audit.

Contribute to the evaluation of research findings and disseminate them appropriately, including presentations at study days or conferences.

To adhere to Whittington Health policy and procedures at all times.

To be aware of one's own continuous professional development needs and maintain an annual personal development plan.

 

 

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide high quality effective physiotherapy assessment and treatment/management programmes for adults presenting with stroke in Haringey, who require a community-based service. To use highly specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills to manage own complex caseload, as an autonomous practitioner.

To act as a source of expertise on stroke, neurological conditions and rehabilitation ; providing advice to patients, carers, all grades of physiotherapists, other health care professionals, consultants, general practitioners and social services. 

To support the use of evidence-based practice within the service, incorporating national guidelines e.g. stroke strategy into practice.

 Please see Job Description for further details 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
  • Registration with the Health Professions Council
Desirable criteria
  • Attendance on courses related to Physiotherapy e.g. Falls Prevention
  • Member of the CSP and relevant Clinical Interest group e.g.AGILE

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Essential IT skills, including Word and PowerPoint

Experience

Essential criteria
  • At least 2 years post-registration experience, including rotational
  • experience and evidence of dedicated clinical practice and post-graduate
  • professional development in relevant areas of physiotherapy.
  • Experience of working in the NHS.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working within the community and with other community services

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of running Falls/Balance/other groups
  • Experience of organising, writing and delivering in-service training programmes
  • Experience of involvement in clinical governance/service improvement initiatives
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of taking physiotherapy students on clinical practice placements
  • Experience of working with the voluntary sector
  • Experience of supervising junior and non-qualified staff, including participation in personal development reviews

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of current NHS priorities and policy
  • Understanding of clinical governance activity and its application to physiotherapy services and practice.
  • Knowledge of Physiotherapy professional issues.
  • Knowledge of the stroke strategy, and the NSF for long term conditions and related frameworks
  • Knowledge of other medical conditions which you may encounter including, but not exclusively, respiratory, orthopaedics and conditions of old age
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of attendance of post-graduate training related to the post
  • knowledge of the audit cycle and its uses.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Able to communicate complex and sensitive information in written, verbal and presentational form to patients, carers and staff within the Trust and across other organisations.
  • Able to apply problem-solving skills to complex situations, which may include clinical or organisational issues.
  • Well-developed planning skills.
  • Ability and competency in using a range of therapeutic skills including but not exclusively, various assessment techniques, handling skills, manual handling techniques, exercise therapy, and splinting.

Other Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to holistic patient management and the promotion and progression of physiotherapy in the community.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Up to date and advanced knowledge of a variety of physiotherapy concepts and approaches, and of current best practice within stroke rehabilitation.
  • Knowledge of Neurological condition pathologies including stroke and their management.
  • Knowledge of the falls strategy, and the NSF for long term conditions and related frameworks
  • Knowledge of outcome measure tools relevant to community Physiotherapy and rehabilitation, and ability to select and justify their use
  • Demonstrate an understanding of responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and of assessing risk within clinical work.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Developed clinical reasoning skills with an ability to develop client centred, realistic and achievable goals.
  • Able to assimilate and analyse complex clinical information.
  • Understanding of issues involved in offering a service to a diverse community, and of practical ways to ensure that the service is culturally appropriate and accessible
  • Able to identify and recognise when to seek advice and support concerning clinical, managerial, professional or organisational issues
  • Able to identify your own development needs.
  • Well-developed and effective communication, motivational and persuasive skills.
  • Well developed counselling and advocacy skills to support staff, patients and carers.
  • High level of organisation skills and ability to prioritise own caseload

Other Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work in the community in patient’s homes and to travel around the borough.
  • Willingness to work on any site as service requirements dictate, and as appropriate.

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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

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Myless Mwanza
Job title
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist
Email address
[email protected]

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