Job Summary
Rotations at both University Hospital Lewisham & Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich
We are seeking a dynamic and talented senior physiotherapist to work across our extensive variety of settings. This exciting opportunity will allow the successful candidate to gain experience and develop advanced clinical and leadership skills. In this role, you would have the opportunity to experience the diversity of working across three vibrant London Boroughs - Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.
Rotations are of 8-month duration
Main duties of the job
We offer a robust training and mentorship program with supervision and clinical based teaching forming the foundation for your learning. The breadth of clinical services will allow you to specialise or diversify according to your interests. We support staff to attend courses and further education to allow progression towards a chosen clinical specialty, as well as senior leadership skills. This is supported both with access to paid study leave and course funding. All senior therapists are encouraged to take an active role in trust wide quality improvement, audit and service development.
As a band 6 physiotherapist you will play a key role in the clinical provision of services to a varied patient caseload. Therapies are considered an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at Lewisham and Greenwich Trust and enjoy close MDT working.
The physiotherapy department within Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is highly regarded as an inclusive and supportive team. If you are a motivated Physiotherapist looking to progress as a Band 6 Physiotherapist do not miss this opportunity to work within a dynamic, friendly and innovative department with all the benefits of being a large London Trust.
If you take a cross site role it is anticipated across a two-year period you would complete two rotations at University Hospital Lewisham or in the community to one rotation at Queen Elizabeth Site.
About Us
As such the high cost area supplement (HCAS) you receive will depend on your rotation site and therefore your salary will vary in accordance with this.
PLEASE NOTE: We may not be able to offer sponsorship for this post
Our People Are Our Greatest Asset. When We Feel Supported And Happy At Work, This Positivity Reaches Those Very People We Are Here For, The Patients. Engaged Employees Perform At Their Best And Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Initiatives Contribute To Cultivate a Culture Of Engagement. We Have Four Staff Networks, a Corporate EDI Team And a Suite Of Programmes And Events Which Aim To Insert The 5 Aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream
Details
Date posted
20 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum plus HCAS (pro rata if part-time)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
197-R-UT7943
Job locations
Queen Elizabeth Hospital;
Stadium Road
London
SE18 4QH
Job Description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
The Rotational Physiotherapist is an experienced clinician who independently manages a full specialised clinical caseload. They are responsible for supervising designated members of staff within the specialist team.
The post holder rotates through speciality pathways on an 8-monthly basis and works under supervision of an allocated Team Lead for the Clinical Area. Rotations span the University Hospital Lewisham, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Greenwich and Lewisham Community Services.
The rotations associated with this post may change in response to future service demands and the postholder may be required to work at any of the sites within the Trust.
7-day working for Therapies is under development within the Trust and it is anticipated that the postholder will be required to work at weekends on a roster basis during some of the above rotations.
Clinical Governance and clinical support will be provided to rotational staff by the Band 7 Physiotherapy Team Lead. In conjunction with the Team Lead, the post holder participates in a rolling programme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research across the speciality.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Band 5 Physiotherapists, Team Lead Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy Inpatient Site Lead, Physiotherapy Outpatient Site Lead, Heads of Therapies, Therapy Support Workers, Medical Consultants, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Dietitians, All Physiotherapy Staff Trustwide, Nursing Staff, Referring Hospitals, Social Services, Community Services, GPs, Voluntary Services, Academic Institutions, Specialists external to L&G.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with complex presentations
To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and the work of staff under the postholders supervision. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.
To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient
To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills
To undertake physical treatment techniques utilising highly developed manual skills
To be responsible for the safe and competent use of the inpatient/outpatient gym, electrotherapy and manual handling equipment, as well as other aids and appliances by patients in your working area, ensuring that any Band 5 Physiotherapists and Assistants obtain competency prior to use.
To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care
To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of physiotherapy interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately.
To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To be consulted by staff under the postholders supervision
To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning
To maintain good working links and liase with GPs and all relevant others involved with each patients care, ensuring consultation, feedback and discharge communication.
To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria
To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters
To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is user focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning
To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme
To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome
To receive complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management
To communicate and advise regarding complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working within the physiotherapy service and with other professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service
To be integral in discharge planning including liaison with referring hospitals or community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports
To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes
To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence based practice and research where appropriate. To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice within the pathway
To facilitate the implementation and evaluation of physiotherapy clinical outcomes within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national standards
All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies.
Job Description
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a significant caseload of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with complex presentations
To work at an advanced level and to be professionally and legally accountable for a specialised patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and the work of staff under the postholders supervision. This will include the management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.
To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient
To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with complex presentation, using investigative, palpatory, analytical and clinical reasoning skills
To undertake physical treatment techniques utilising highly developed manual skills
To be responsible for the safe and competent use of the inpatient/outpatient gym, electrotherapy and manual handling equipment, as well as other aids and appliances by patients in your working area, ensuring that any Band 5 Physiotherapists and Assistants obtain competency prior to use.
To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care
To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of physiotherapy interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately.
To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To be consulted by staff under the postholders supervision
To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning
To maintain good working links and liase with GPs and all relevant others involved with each patients care, ensuring consultation, feedback and discharge communication.
To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria
To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters
To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is user focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning
To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme
To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome
To receive complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management
To communicate and advise regarding complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working within the physiotherapy service and with other professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service
To be integral in discharge planning including liaison with referring hospitals or community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports
To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes
To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence based practice and research where appropriate. To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice within the pathway
To facilitate the implementation and evaluation of physiotherapy clinical outcomes within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national standards
All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent in line with guidance from their professional bodies.
Person Specification
Essential
Qualifications and Training
Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy.
HCPC registration
Undertaken a range of relevant postgraduate courses
Undertaken clinical educators training
Desirable
MCSP
Member of Special interest Group
Undertaken appropriate managerial training
Essential
Experience
Wide ranging rotational physiotherapy experience at Band 5 level
Experience of participating in audit and evidence based projects.
Evidence of actively participating in in-service training and MDT groups, and evaluating effectiveness of training
Experience and ability to work collaboratively within MDT
Experience in managing limited resources and high workloads
Desirable
Previous experience at band 6 level
Research experience.
Experience of supervision and appraisal of physiotherapy staff and students with ability to give constructive feedback
Knowledge
Essential
Knowledge of evidenced based practice pertaining to specialist areas of physiotherapy
Knowledge of key national guidelines and standards pertaining to specialist areas of physiotherapy
Understanding of clinical governance and its implication for physiotherapy
Awareness and understanding of NHS structure, current issues and developments
Understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession
Essential
Skills
The ability to discuss clinical reasoning in the management of complex cases
The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
Able to communicate complex information to patients, carers other health professionals and team.
Excellent ability to work effectively in a team environment
Excellent time management skills with ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
Ability to self direct learning, be critical and evaluate own learning needs, demonstrated in a CPD portfolio.
Able to provide a high standard of clear concise, written and verbal reports in English
Good teaching and presentation skills
IT skills, including using hospital data bases, word processing, excel, email and power point
Ability to manage own stress and work in a stressful and unpredictable environment. To show empathy and fairness to give support to others
Desirable
IT skills - Ability to create and/or format data and/or complex spreadsheets using computerised systems
Demonstrates excellent leadership ability and motivational skills
Person Specification
Essential
The ability to discuss clinical reasoning in the management of complex cases
The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
Able to communicate complex information to patients, carers other health professionals and team.
Excellent ability to work effectively in a team environment
Excellent time management skills with ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
Ability to self direct learning, be critical and evaluate own learning needs, demonstrated in a CPD portfolio.
Able to provide a high standard of clear concise, written and verbal reports in English
Good teaching and presentation skills
IT skills, including using hospital data bases, word processing, excel, email and power point
Ability to manage own stress and work in a stressful and unpredictable environment. To show empathy and fairness to give support to others
Desirable
IT skills - Ability to create and/or format data and/or complex spreadsheets using computerised systems
Demonstrates excellent leadership ability and motivational skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
Queen Elizabeth Hospital;
Stadium Road
London
SE18 4QH
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Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
Queen Elizabeth Hospital;
Stadium Road
London
SE18 4QH
Employer's website
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