Senior Community Physiotherapist

Employer Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site ICT, Cirencester Hospital Town Cirencester Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 17/03/2026 23:59

Senior Community Physiotherapist
Band 6

We love what we do and we think you will, too!

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county .

We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care . We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you ’.

We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and w e are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality team s in all areas of the Trust .

Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.

It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .

Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 30 hours per week.

Would you like to work as part of a dynamic, developing Integrated Community Team?

Across Gloucestershire we have had major investment in our Home First and Reablement Team and as a result of this we have an opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Team and be a key part of developing our therapy led service in the South Cotswolds. Our Team is based in Cirencester, and we work closely with the GP practices in the Primary Care Network, alongside our Adult Social Care colleagues and voluntary organisations in the locality.

This is an exciting time to join our team, as we build on our existing services in order to support more people to live independently at home. If you have a passion for community work, and delivering personalised care, then we would love to hear from you.

We can offer you the opportunity to work in a very supportive integrated team, with access to training, regular supervision, annual appraisal and the autonomy to be a lead professional in our new service delivery.

As you will be driving around the beautiful Cotswolds delivering our service, being a car driver is essential to the role. There might be opportunity for onsite accommodation at Cirencester Hospital - please get in touch for details.

Main duties of the job

In line with the Government hospital discharge and community support policy, and the discharge to assess model, our Home First service is a time-limited assessment service for people in their own homes to facilitate rapid discharge from Acute and Community hospitals.

We also provide Reablement to patients in the community, to prevent hospital admission and to facilitate maximum independence, working on jointly agreed goals, promoting personalised care.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

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• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
  
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
  
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
  

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Physiotherapist you would be a key part of our team, providing assessment, goal planning and reviews, working alongside Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Reablement workers and rehabilitation assistants to enable our patients to gain their maximum level of independence in their own home. The caseload will be varied, ranging from rapid assessment to prevent hospital admission, Home First assessments to establish pathways of care following hospital admission, through to setting goals as part of a reablement pathway.

Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS

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• Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy
  
• HCPC registration
  
• Driving licence and use of vehicle
  
• Membership to a relevant professional body e.g. CSP
  

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

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• Broad range of clinical experience across a variety of clinical areas
  
• Experience of managing junior members of staff and rehabilitation assistants
  
• Evidence of working unsupervised
  
• Evidence of working across multi-disciplinary and multi-agency boundaries
  

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

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• Able to deliver community rehabilitation and treatment of patients with complex clinical presentations
  
• Demonstrates knowledge of Home First pathway
  
• Experience of performance management
  

When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:

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• Free car parking at many of our sites
  
• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
  
• A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
  
• A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
  
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
  
• Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
  
• Recognition and long service awards
  
• Fast Track physiotherapy
  
• Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
  

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

If you are aged 16-30, you may be eligible for financial and pastoral support from the King’s Trust, with who we are in partnership with to support your first 6 months in role. We will pass on your details to the King’s Trust who will be in touch with you if you are eligible. If you would rather not be contacted, please let us know.

For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.

Good luck with your application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.