Job summary
- Main area
- Community Phsyiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: 7 Day Working including 6pm finish
- Hours
- Part time - 29.25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-556-26-CS-B
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ashfield Health & Well Being Centre
- Town
- Kirkby in Ashfield
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Physiotherapist
Band 5
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Job overview
We are looking for a Band 5 Community Physiotherapist to join our team.
We are committed & passionate about promoting Health, Well-being and Independence. We are a values-based Trust and have dedicated and enthusiastic clinicians. Do you have a positive and 'can do' attitude? If so...join us! We can provide you with support and development, whilst delivering a fantastic service to our clients.
The position will be covering the Mid Nottinghamshire area (Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark & Sherwood) . The successful candidate will work within the Mid Notts Community Therapy Team and support the delivery of Community rehabilitation services and Discharge to Assess.
Our passion is to maintain independence and keep individuals at home for as long as they are able, avoiding hospital admission and enabling a return home where admission has been unavoidable.
Community Services are the future of Rehabilitation. Working with us will broaden your skill sets and give you the scope and confidence to take your professional development wherever you want it to go!
Main duties of the job
Working within the integrated team, you will be supported to effectively triage, prioritise, assess and provide holistic interventions for clients referred to the service, within their home environment. You will work closely with health and social care colleagues across primary and secondary care to ensure continuity, effective intervention and maximise rehabilitation outcomes.
You will offer bespoke physiotherapy to adults, the frail and elderly including complex fallers, patients with neurological conditions, complex co-morbidities and orthopaedics.
We deliver services between 8am and 10pm over 7 days. We currently operate shift patterns for Band 5 posts between 8 am and 6pm on 5/7 days.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants should hold BSc/Diploma in Physiotherapy, HCPC Registration. You will ideally have post qualification experience and recent experience of working with clients with long term conditions, falls, neurology and health care of the elderly conditions.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Allied Health Professionals within Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust are at the forefront of a range of multi-disciplinary, specialist services for people with complex needs, using their expertise around promoting recovery, enablement and positive risk taking, to add life to years, prevent relapse and reduce risks.
Person specification
Qualificaitons & Training
Essential criteria
- Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy or awaiting Physiotherapy degree results
- HCPC Registered or awaiting registration post qualification
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of CPD relevant to physiotherapy role
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience relevant to this post
- Evidence of working as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supporting student placements and/or supervising support staff
- NHS Experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of physiotherapeutic assessment & treatment underpinned by sound clinical reasoning
- Knowledge and experience of working within an MDT and the benefits to the patient and MDT
- Evidence of flexible and adaptable approach to team work
- Evidence of a range of communication skills
- Evidence of organisational skills and ability to prioritise and manage clinical caseload
- Evidence of reliability, motivation and flexible team work to meet the demands of a 7 day service
- Evidence of using relevant clinical systems e.g Systm1 and use of general IT Systems
Desirable criteria
- Example of evidence based interventions
- Understanding of relevant national and local priorities relevant to post
contractual
Essential criteria
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
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
- Ian English
- Job title
- Community Therapy Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07815 007666
- Additional information
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Duncan Macmillan House
Porchester Road
Mapperley
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG3 6AA
- Telephone
- 0115 671 4610 - Bank Team
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