Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Physiotherapist

The closing date is 07 December 2025

Job summary

Are you a motivated and compassionate Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career? Heathlands Care Home is seeking a proactive Senior Physiotherapist to join our dynamic community rehabilitation team, supporting patients to achieve meaningful recovery, independence and improved quality of life.

About the Role

As a Senior Physiotherapist at Heathlands, you will undertake holistic and comprehensive physiotherapy assessments and deliver individualised treatment plans for patients within a community rehabilitation setting. Your expert clinical skills will contribute to high-quality, patient-centred care, ensuring safe and effective rehabilitation pathways.

You will work collaboratively as part of a skilled interdisciplinary team, supporting excellent day-to-day service provision and contributing to continuous service development.

Main duties of the job

To provide holistic PT assessment, goal setting, individualised treatment programmes, care planning/delivery, evaluation, and discharge of patients
To provide comprehensive environmental and functional assessments and treatment programmes as required ensuring the progression of the patient to their optimal level.
To provide comprehensive manual handling assessment and care plans for inpatient staff to follow, ensuring effective and safe manual handling on the ward.
To identify, assess and manage risk.
Where appropriate to take responsibility for the application of new skills to rehabilitation programmes.
To provide line management and supervision to junior staff and students as appropriate.
To maintain excellent clinical practice through the CPD process, and taking part in relevant research, audit and development activity as directed.
To work closely and jointly at times with Occupational Therapy and Nursing colleagues to ensure a holistic and effective care plan is provided to the patient.
To be responsible for the day-to-day management and prioritization of your caseload and be able to respond to urgent referrals and an unpredictable workload.
To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting, or emotional situations in an empathetic manner.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Date posted

28 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£40,617 to £48,778 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-NM220

Job locations

Heathlands Intermediate Care Unit

Crossfell

Bracknell

RG12 7RX

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information on the main duties and responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information on the main duties and responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC Registered
Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
Evidence of continued CPD with varied evidence.

Desirable

Clinical educators training.

Experience

Essential

Extensive post registration experience.
Inpatient experience within physical health setting, including care of elderly, medical, orthopaedics, surgical, A&E.
Experience of referring on to other agencies including the voluntary sector to continue patient's care.
Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams.
Experience providing interventions for fatigue and anxiety management and cognitive impairment.

Desirable

Experience of palliative care.
Managerial/supervisory experience and/or training.
Community experience.
Experience of educating and training informal and formal carers.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Excellent communication skills.
Ability to assess, plan, and evaluate the rehabilitation needs of client groups and progress to effective outcomes.
Ability to prioritise own workload under pressure and that of multi-disciplinary junior grades, assistants & students.
Working with own scope of practice and competencies and seeking support as required

Desirable

Experience of clinical audit.
Experience of appraisal, & recruitment processes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC Registered
Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
Evidence of continued CPD with varied evidence.

Desirable

Clinical educators training.

Experience

Essential

Extensive post registration experience.
Inpatient experience within physical health setting, including care of elderly, medical, orthopaedics, surgical, A&E.
Experience of referring on to other agencies including the voluntary sector to continue patient's care.
Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams.
Experience providing interventions for fatigue and anxiety management and cognitive impairment.

Desirable

Experience of palliative care.
Managerial/supervisory experience and/or training.
Community experience.
Experience of educating and training informal and formal carers.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Excellent communication skills.
Ability to assess, plan, and evaluate the rehabilitation needs of client groups and progress to effective outcomes.
Ability to prioritise own workload under pressure and that of multi-disciplinary junior grades, assistants & students.
Working with own scope of practice and competencies and seeking support as required

Desirable

Experience of clinical audit.
Experience of appraisal, & recruitment processes.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Heathlands Intermediate Care Unit

Crossfell

Bracknell

RG12 7RX

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Heathlands Intermediate Care Unit

Crossfell

Bracknell

RG12 7RX

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)