Senior Physiotherapist

The Victoria Ward at the Friary Hospital is an 18 bed rehabilitation ward in the heart of Richmond. We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and rehab focused Individual to work as a senior physiotherapist within both the therapy team at the Friary Hospital and the Community Therapy Team (depending on service need) at a highly specialised and advanced level, managing highly complex cases where there may be multiple pathologies.

We Want Someone Who Can

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• Act as a highly specialised resource and provide advice to other professionals including medical staff, specialist nurses, social workers, and other therapists regarding older people for a wide range of individuals.
  
• Act both independently and as part of the Therapy team to manage a large caseload of in-patient and outreach patients with needs which are often highly complex.
  
• Undertake specialist assessment in relation to their physical, psychological, social and productivity circumstances and needs.
  

Please be aware that the Victoria Ward will be closing on the 27th April 2026 temporarily to allow for installation of a new lift. All members of the therapy team will be redeployed within the Clinical Service Unit.

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• To be responsible for the delivery of Physiotherapy assessment and treatment to a high professional standard in accordance with Professional Standards and Code of Ethics laid down by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
  
• To be responsible for maintaining a high standard of therapy services and develop quality improvements appropriate to the needs of the service.
  
• To develop and deliver training, supervision and development of band 5, support staff, students and other health and social care workers as appropriate around area of expertise.
  
• To act as a clinical mentor to junior members of staff.
  
• To develop and improve competence in self and acquire new skills and apply to practice.
  
• To autonomously manage, within appropriate professional guidelines, a caseload of clients with complex needs within departmental, home and community environments.
  
• To respond to identified needs through critical thinking, consideration of a range of options using sound clinical reasoning and professional judgement and communicating these to clients in order to reach a decision, in collaboration with the client (or his representatives) about how to meet those needs.
  
• To provide clinical expertise within own specialist area, with particular expertise in rehabilitation.
  

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Skills

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• Your Leadership Impact
  
• Leading your Team to Success
  
• Leading Into the Future
  
• Service Improvement for Beginners
  
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
  
• Lean Practitioner
  

The Leadership And Improvement Programme Aims To

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• Explore leadership within the NHS
  
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
  
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
  
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
  

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Heather Torr Job title: Therapy Team Lead, Friary Hospital Email address: Telephone number: