Main area Physiotherapist - Physiotherapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent: Mon - Fri plus weekends/ late shift/ oncall Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week) Job ref 216-LT-DA787122
Employer University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Derriford Hospital Town PLYMOUTH Salary £32,073 - £39,043 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/06/2026 23:59
Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
The Physiotherapy Department can offer you a friendly and social atmosphere with a forward-thinking and progressive attitude to the changing face of the NHS. If you join our department, you will benefit from a well-established and robust appraisal scheme, in-service training, encouragement with CPD, excellent senior and peer support and preceptorship program. Clinical specialists enhance the clinical leadership within the department, encouraging evidence-based practice and research/audit. If you are interested in joining our team to progress or start your career, we would be happy to hear from you.
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is a large acute Trust and Major Trauma Centre, successful candidates will have the enviable opportunity to gain both basic Band 5 experience across all core areas as well as more specialist opportunities in the tertiary specialities that we host. We offer rotations across a wide variety of specialities, such as cardiothoracics, respiratory, intensive care, acute stroke, stroke rehab, neurosurgery, critical care rehab, surgical, medical, care of elderly, orthopaedics, paediatrics, trauma, emergency care, out-patients and community.
Experience working in a healthcare setting, ideally within the NHS, is highly desirable and familiarity with NHS systems and processes is advantageous.
Main duties of the job
To perform a physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions; to provide a clinical diagnosis, develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme, under the supervision of a senior Physiotherapist.
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and ensure competence is gained and retained in all areas in which you practice.
To hold responsibility for own caseload, working with supervision. Supervision takes the form of a more senior physiotherapist supervising the post holder (usually daily but at least weekly) by direct observation of practice, regular formal and informal training, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review and case conferences.
Access to advice and support from senior physiotherapists is always available; regular checks will be made to ensure workload is managed; clinical work and case notes are routinely evaluated.
Working for our organisation
We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.
If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment manager for this post who will put you into contact with the recruitment team. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your work, including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support more junior staff to do likewise.
* To be an active member of the respiratory evening and weekend rota and seven-day rota for acute services if required.
* When working on the weekend and respiratory on-call rota, to undertake the assessment and treatment of acutely ill patients with respiratory problems, who may have a complex presentation and maintain associated records as an autonomous practitioner.
* When working to provide advice to medical and nursing staff and other members of the multi-disciplinary team regarding patients functions/condition
* To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of the intervention, and to develop comprehensive management plans.
* To represent the trust externally (locally, regionally and nationally) regarding physiotherapy services provided to the patients.
* To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care and to support junior staff in this work
* To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
* To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients.
* To participate in working parties developing policy changes within specialities, which will impact on all service users.
For further details please see attached job description
Person specification
Knowledge & Experience
* Broad range of clinical placements including demonstrable experience in MSK (Orthopaedic & Outpatient) / Acute respiratory care / Neuro
* Proven evidence of Continuous Professional Development
* An awareness of current large clinical setting and NHS Health issues
* Development & values-based learning
* Demonstrable experience as a Physiotherapist in an acute healthcare setting
Qualifications
* Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy
* HCPC registration
* Willingness to maintain their own development
* Attendance of additional professional courses
* Good oral, verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to prioritise workload
* Proven evidence of personal leadership
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If you need support with the online application process or require reasonable adjustments with the application and/or interview process please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post.
We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. We recommend contacting the manager of the role prior to applying and we commit to giving requests full consideration.
We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply for our roles. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves our patients' experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace and hospital where everyone feels they belong and included .
It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Providing false information is an offence & could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal/police action if an applicant is successful.
Please note that if you are successful in your application & accept the position you agree that the Staff Health and Wellbeing Department can access your health records from your current/previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations & screening tests. This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.
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