Are you a motivated and compassionate Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career? Heathlands Care Home is seeking a proactiveSenior Physiotherapistto join our dynamic community rehabilitation team, supporting patients to achieve meaningful recovery, independence and improved quality of life.
About the Role
As a Senior Physiotherapist at Heathlands, you will undertake holistic and comprehensive physiotherapy assessments and deliver individualised treatment plans for patients within a community rehabilitation setting. Your expert clinical skills will contribute to high-quality, patient-centred care, ensuring safe and effective rehabilitation pathways.
You will work collaboratively as part of a skilled interdisciplinary team, supporting excellent day-to-day service provision and contributing to continuous service development.
• To provide holistic PT assessment, goal setting, individualised treatment programmes, care planning/delivery, evaluation, and discharge of patients
• To provide comprehensive environmental and functional assessments and treatment programmes as required ensuring the progression of the patient to their optimal level.
• To provide comprehensive manual handling assessment and care plans for inpatient staff to follow, ensuring effective and safe manual handling on the ward.
• To identify, assess and manage risk.
• Where appropriate to take responsibility for the application of new skills to rehabilitation programmes.
• To provide line management and supervision to junior staff and students as appropriate.
• To maintain excellent clinical practice through the CPD process, and taking part in relevant research, audit and development activity as directed.
• To work closely and jointly at times with Occupational Therapy and Nursing colleagues to ensure a holistic and effective care plan is provided to the patient.
• To be responsible for the day-to-day management and prioritization of your caseload and be able to respond to urgent referrals and an unpredictable workload.
• To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting, or emotional situations in an empathetic manner.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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For more information on the main duties and responsibilities please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Dec 2025