Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site City Care Centre Town Peterborough Salary £38,682 - £46,580 Pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/09/2025 23:59
Specialist Neuro Rehab and Stroke ESD Physiotherapist
Band 6
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 6 Physiotherapist to join the Integrated Stroke Early Supported Discharge & Community Neuro Rehabilitation Service.
The Integrated service provided both stroke rehabilitation & community neuro rehabilitation supporting service users with a variety of complex needs.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established multi-disciplinary team comprising of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychologists, Specialist Nurses, and Neuro Rehab assistants.
This role requires the successful candidate to manage a clinical caseload across the North of Cambridgeshire. Their base will be either Peterborough or Fenland dependent on location nearest to home.
The role involves visiting patients in their homes, wards, or community gyms. There may be times when there is a requirement to provide clinical cover elsewhere within Cambridgeshire. The role requires agile working often using virtual consultation to manage a caseload. We will provide a smart phone and laptop to support this role.
Main duties of the job
You will provide comprehensive assessments and deliver evidence-based specialist neuro Physiotherapy programmes. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team in supporting patients with physical, cognitive, and psychosocial needs to achieve their potential.
We pride ourselves on the development of our workforce and provide a variety of internal and external training opportunities. The successful post holder will receive and provide clinical supervision and an annual appraisal.
The ideal candidate should be flexible and adaptable to support service delivery.
The successful post holder must be able to travel independently across their work locality, have a valid driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
As an organisation we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Note: for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work.
To work within Trust, CSP, and HCPC guidelines and to have a good working knowledge of national and local standards of practice in line with legal and operational requirements and use own professional judgement to vary from established practices where required.
To undertake holistic assessment of patients with neurological problems (including those with complex presentations and cognitive problems) making use of specialist clinical reasoning skills.
To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
Organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately.
Conduct risk assessments and health and safety assessments and including immediately reporting any changes/newly identified risks.
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Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent, e.g. BSc, MSc or Diploma entry level qualification into the Physiotherapy profession.
* Current HCPC registration
* Documented evidence of own continuing professional development
* Willingness to undertake Fieldwork/Practice Educator qualification
* Member of CSP
* Member of ACPIN
Experience
* Relevant post-graduate clinical experience in a variety of settings.
* Experience of working in Neuro Rehab and post graduate training in the field of neuro rehab.
* Community experience
* Clinical educator experience
Skills & Abilities
* Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
* Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.
* Good communication skills and report writing including standard keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word.
* Able to assess plan and implement care
* Good time Management and prioritisation Skills.
* Experience of supporting unregistered staff including an understanding of clinical supervision.
* Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
* Recognises the limits of own authority within the role and seeks and uses professional support appropriately
* Understands the principle of confidentiality
* Demonstrates a knowledge of neuro rehab including cognition
* Knowledge of relevant outcome measures and experience using them
* Demonstrate proactive response to maintaining registration with HCPC and/or other professional bodies
* SystmOne
* Understanding of prescribing equipment to facilitate and aid in activities of daily living
Physical Requirements
* The ability to kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments
* The ability to use moving and handling equipment to manoeuvre patients
* Must have access to a personal car and the ability to drive independently around the locality, due to the radius covered and lack of public transport in some areas
Other
* Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings
* Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems
* In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down, and has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress.
* Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
* Recognises and upholds the trusts PRIDE values
* Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
* Flexibility to work over seven days a week
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children’s community services in Peterborough;
* Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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.
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