Community Specialist Physiotherapist - Northwich

An exciting opportunity to join the Northwich community therapy team has arisen. Come and join our amazing, friendly and supportive team! Your role will assess, manage and provide treatment to a community caseload of patients with complex and/or multiple therapy needs. You will be lone working on a daily basis and will have MDT and peer support with the Northwich team. There may be an expectation to work between multiple sites in the organisation.

This is a permanent post.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

Date posted: 10 March 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year pa, pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 412-COMM-7775097

Job locations: Victoria Infirmary, Winnington Lane, Northwich, CW81AW

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• Manage a clinical caseload with autonomy, work without direct supervision
  
• Undertake comprehensive physiotherapy assessment, provide a therapeutic diagnosis using investigative and advanced analytical skills, specialist listening, physical and observational skills, interpret clinical findings and documentation, and implement agreed treatment plans if appropriate, including treatment of complex service users with multiple pathologies in a manner that respects peoples privacy dignity and individuality
  
• Provide individual or group therapy as appropriate to setting
  
• Implement monitoring and evaluation of treatment in order to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness of interventions and service delivery
  
• Develop programmes of care to support discharge from service
  
• Be responsible for equipment used in carrying out clinical duties, and to adhere to policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice
  
• Record, maintain and store accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal and local requirements. Communicate outcomes of assessments/intervention to appropriate disciplines in form of letters/reports/discharge summaries
  
• Arrange appointments (as applicable), work closely with MDT, attend case reviews/case conferences/variety of MDT internal and external meetings/forums
  
• Contribute to the safeguarding of our Service users/families as appropriate
  
• Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with service users including those service users who lack capacity to consent to treatment, within your organisations policies.
  
• Be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of Service users under your care
  
• Maintain professional registration with HCPC
  
• Work within organisation, HCPC and CSP guidelines
  
• Have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and others quality of practise against these
  
• Work as part of a team to ensure effective communication and delivery of care
  
• Provide and receive, with care and integrity, sensitive information about service users from the service user, carer and other professionals and to manage sensitive or contentious information appropriately
  
• Work in an empathic manner in partnership with service users, carers and families, where there are barriers to understanding and differences in the way the service user communicates e.g. sign language. To alter approaches to a relevant level for the service user to be as actively involved in their own care.
  
• Communicate effectively with service users and carers/relatives to progress specific rehabilitation and treatment programme. Providing and receiving complex information using a range of verbal/non-verbal communication skills, persuading/influencing
  
• Use appropriate communication skills to overcome significant barriers to acceptance of sensitive information.
  
• Communicate effectively with a range of professionals both within the organisation and with external agencies, including primary care, social service and voluntary organisations
  
• Provide the Band 7 Physiotherapists / Managers with information to assist planning and development of the service, to assist team leader in planning of longer term strategic plans to develop the therapy service.
  
• Assist the Managers in achieving the departmental objectives and supporting an open style of leadership
  
• Actively participate in the professional development programme of the therapy service
  
• Provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals
  
• Be involved in the daily management of workload allocation within the specialist area.
  
• Participate in the operational planning and implementation of policy and service development within your team, leading on delegated projects
  
• Undertake any other duties that might be considered appropriate by senior staff and deputise in their absence as required.
  
• Be aware of the financial impact of clinical decisions
  
• Support therapy team in ensuring adequate levels of stock are available as required in line with your organisations stock management policy
  
• Organise and lead in-service training programmes for Band 5 Therapists and Assistants under the guidance of Band 7 staff when required.
  
• Critically evaluate current research and apply to practice. Demonstrate an understanding and application of national guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care and their impact of service provision.
  
• Train, supervise and support less experienced therapy staff, therapy assistants and students. This may include formal staff appraisals.
  
• Maintain own competency to practice, through participation in internal and external development opportunities evidenced by a professional portfolio for Continuing Professional Development.
  
• Demonstrate acquired specialist skills and knowledge of professional practice in order to maintain fitness to practice as a Physiotherapist.
  
• Work within organisation and department policies and comply with HCPC Code of Conduct.
  
• Keep up to date with all mandatory training requirements within the organisation.
  
• Participate in the evaluation of clinical practice and disseminate across relevant areas.
  
• Undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of evidence based practice projects, audit and outcome measures.
  
• Provide representation at local meetings/ specific interest groups and attendance at national meetings, under guidance of more experienced staff. Make recommendation for change and to implement change under supervision.
  
• Undertake audit and contribute to regional/national level as appropriate.
  
• Support research activity with the service.
  
• Disseminate findings from audit and evaluation results to relevant areas
  

Qualifications

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• Essential: Degree in physiotherapy
  

Registration

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• Essential: HCPC registered
  
• Desirable: CSP registered
  

Experience

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• Essential: Previous experience of working in the NHS
  
• Essential: Experience of working in a community setting
  
• Essential: Experience of urgent care response working
  
• Desirable: Completion of band 5 rotation
  
• Desirable: Student educator or experience of having students
  
• Desirable: experience of audits
  

Communication

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• Essential: Good written and verbal communication skills
  
• Desirable: Applicable IT skills
  
• Desirable: Experience of using electronic patient records
  

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer name: Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Victoria Infirmary, Winnington Lane, Northwich, CW81AW

Employer's website: https://www.mcht.nhs.uk/