Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
🌟 Permanent Opportunity: Senior Physiotherapist (Band 6) – Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS)
📍 Location: NELFT – Community Role covering 3 London boroughs (Office at Goodmayes Hospital, IG3 8XJ)
🕒 Includes weekend rota and late shifts (12–8pm)
Are you a Band 5 Physiotherapist ready to take the next step in your career? Or a Band 6 looking for a fresh, rewarding challenge this winter?
We’re offering a fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic and supportive Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) – a multidisciplinary community team that plays a vital role in reducing hospital admissions and supporting early discharges.
As a Senior Physiotherapist, you’ll:
1. Manage your own caseload of community-based patients
2. Deliver high-impact, person-centred rehabilitation in patients’ homes
3. Collaborate with inpatient and acute teams to ensure seamless transitions of care
4. Provide supervision, training, and joint sessions with colleagues across the team
This is your chance to make a real difference while gaining valuable experience in a fast-paced, community-focused setting.
If you’re passionate about rehabilitation, thrive in a collaborative environment, and want to grow your leadership skills – we’d love to hear from you.
👉 Please review the Job Description and ensure you meet the requirements before applying.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of the Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) to provide high quality, timely rehabilitation for patients requiring step up from the integrated health team or step down from an acute or community bed.
Delivering high quality rehabilitation in a patient’s home rather than in a community bed setting for those patients with a rehabilitation need as part of a multi professional service/team.
Working with patient centred goal orientated rehabilitation to promote self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care.
Providing onward referrals to other community services including health and social care to ensure the safe management of the patient when completing their IRS episode of care.
The post holder will be a Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively support and liaise with other health and social care professionals and agencies.
Please refer to the job description attached for the full responsibilities of the role.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15%of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum, pro rata for part time
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We can offer excellent work - life balance and benefits including:
5. Protected CPD time with a diverse In Service Training Programme
6. Regular supervision
7. NHS pension
8. Close transport links into London
9. Opportunity for service development and audit
10. Flexibility within our 7 day working services
11. Agile working devices to support community based workin
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
12. Bsc Physiotherapy
13. HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
14. Msc Physiotherapy
Experience
Essential criteria
15. Community Rehabilitation Experience
16. NHS experience as B5/6 Physiotherapist (Core rotations and acute)
Desirable criteria
17. Rehabilitation experience inpatients
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
18. Comprehensive assessment and treatment plans for community caseload
19. Comply with CSP HCPC standards
20. Evidence based informed assessment and treatment plans
Communication
Essential criteria
21. Effective communication with colleagues, peers, patients, family, clinical leads within trust
22. Complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes
Training
Essential criteria
23. Maintain and develop current knowledge of evidence-based practice for conditions and treatments and inform more junior staff of such developments.
24. Active member of IST
25. To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
26. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
27. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
28. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
29. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.