Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist

Join Our Forensic Services Team and Make a Difference

Are you an experienced and compassionate Physiotherapist looking for a unique and rewarding role? Kent and Medway Mental Health Trust is seeking a motivated Specialist Physiotherapist to join our Forensic Services, helping to support individuals with complex mental health and physical health needs within secure settings.

This is an exciting opportunity to apply your physiotherapy skills in a dynamic and multidisciplinary forensic environment, where you will play a crucial role in developing the service and promoting mobility, independence, and overall well‑being for service users in low and medium secure units.

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• Assess and provide treatment for patients with a wide range of physical health conditions, often co‑occurring with severe mental illness.
  
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team, including psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and psychologists, to ensure holistic patient care.
  
• Develop and deliver individualised rehabilitation plans to improve mobility, function, and quality of life.
  
• Support service users with pain management, exercise programmes, and education on maintaining physical health.
  
• Contribute to risk assessments and care planning in a secure environment.
  
• Provide training and guidance to staff on movement, injury prevention, and the benefits of physical activity.
  

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• HCPC‑registered Physiotherapist.
  
• Experience working within complex care settings, mental health, forensics (desirable but not essential).
  
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage service users who may present with challenging behaviours.
  
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team and wider AHP team.
  
• Commitment to patient‑centred care and rehabilitation.
  

Join us in making a meaningful impact on the lives of individuals in forensic mental health care.

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Clare Hardwick
Job title: Head of AHP
Email address:
Telephone number:
Susan Miller,