Community Physiotherapist

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 March 2026

Senior Community Physiotherapist - 22.5 hours per week

We are seeking an experienced Physiotherapist to join us. The North Hampshire Community Therapy Team is a friendly and supportive team of Community Therapists and Therapy assistants providing a domiciliary rehabilitation service to patients. You will develop your expertise treating a range of problems related to elderly care, falls, palliative care, orthopaedic, neurological and respiratory conditions. You will also have opportunity to develop your leadership and management skills within the team.

This post would suit an established B6 therapist or an experienced B5 with an interest in community working. Successful applicants will need to be an efficient worker, a good communicator and be confident working as an autonomous practitioner. Community experience is desirable. You will be responsible for managing your own caseload whilst working effectively within the multidisciplinary team to ensure an integrated approach to patient care - preventing unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care, promoting functional independence and facilitating timely discharge from hospital.

For further information please contact:

Or Emma Wake

• The Clinical Therapist will work across the caseload, using their clinical skills to identify the needs of patients, triage appropriately and liaise with the correct services.
• To provide specialist therapy assessment of patients. To provide appropriate patient centred treatment using evidence-based practice where-ever possible. Patients will present with acute or chronic conditions and complex multi-system pathologies e.g. neuro, respiratory conditions, orthopaedic rehabilitation, age related deterioration and palliative care.
• To provide the therapeutic treatment programme or where appropriate direct the intervention as necessary through Support Workers, or other members of the MDT.
• To facilitate safe discharge at the optimum point of care for patients, including assessing risk, ordering equipment and providing appropriate advice for patients/ carers.
• The Clinical Therapist will work under the supervision of the Clinical Team Lead receiving specific therapy clinical supervision/ development support from the appropriate leads in the district. The emphasis will be on developing assessment and clinical skills as well as developing skills that can be shared across a wider team.
• The Clinical Therapist will liaise with a wide range of clinical colleagues including but not exclusively, UCR team, District Nurses, Social Care professionals and GP's, to facilitate a patient focused, co-ordinated case management.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

• Appropriate professional qualification (Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist) with full HCPC registration
• Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
• Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and report writing
• To hold a current UK driving license with business insurance cover
• Further education training eg: external courses/masters degree or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training.

• Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care/community setting.
• Have a broad range of clinical skills, including assessment and treatments of a variety of conditions including neuro, orthopaedic, MSK and elderly.
• Involved in the implementation and management of change.
• Experience of working with long-term conditions and frailty.
• Demonstrates organisational skills: including the ability to make decisions and to prioritise.
• Ability to understand and interpret research findings/evidence-based care and apply to practice.
• Participation and comprehension of clinical and professional supervision.
• Experience of initiating or participating in quality improvement project relating to clinical practice

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust