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Job summary

Main area
Therapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
162-6863-AV
Employer
Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen's Hospital
Town
Romford
Salary
£42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/03/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist - AFTT

Band 6

 

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Job overview

Are you someone who is looking to consolidate and develop their skills as a physiotherapist and has a specialist interest in Frailty?  We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Acute Frailty Therapy Team (AFTT) in Queen’s Hospital.  
 
AFTT is an innovative team who specialise in working with the frail and elderly in the acute setting to facilitate safe and rapid discharges. We work in a fast-paced environment across a range of acute clinical areas and assess and treat a wide variety of patients with diverse presentations and complex needs and conditions. You will be required to demonstrate strong leadership skills and be confident to work as an autonomous practitioner, focusing on early assessment and discharge planning with rapid and robust decision-making essential for efficient patient flow.
 
We have a range of exciting initiatives in our team including opportunities to participate in audits and service improvement opportunities. We strongly support continuing professional development, and you will be well supported by the wider team of therapists. We are committed to providing specialist education and training and working to develop an enhanced therapy role for our staff. 
 
If you have the skills outlined in the job description and want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop services whilst being valued and supported, then apply today.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of physiotherapy service, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries

 To fulfil a teaching and supervisory role with peers, Junior staff and Students on placement

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year. 

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities


For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role.  Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact  Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5926. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

 

 

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
  • H.C.P.C. Registration
  • Evidence of recent and relevant CPD
Desirable criteria
  • Post graduate clinical training
  • Clinical supervisors training

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
  • Ability to work without supervision
  • Ability to demonstrate knowledge of limitations of own clinical practice and identify appropriate solutions
  • Ability to demonstrate skills in assessment and treatment of acute patients in line with current practise and research
  • Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession and their implications for practice

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • To have recent broad clinical experience during Band 5 rotations in an acute hospital setting
  • Active participation of in service training
  • Evidence of recent working within an acute hospital setting and treating patients with complex needs within the NHS
Desirable criteria
  • Previous band 6 acute experience
  • Recent clinical experience working in Emergency Department or Frailty Unit
  • Training of physiotherapy students on placements.
  • Participation in weekend rotas

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sharon McLoughlin
Job title
Clinical Lead Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01708 503157
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