Employer Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Whittington Health Centre Town Streatham Salary £47,951 – £56,863 pa inc. H.C.A (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 01/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 11/11/2026
Specialist Physiotherapist
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Physiotherapist to join our vibrant and supportive team.
We are an integrated health and social care MDT, working with adults over the age of 18 who have experienced a recent change in their function secondary to physical and/or cognitive changes. We provide up to 6 weeks of tailored rehabilitation that optimises their engagement and independence of their ADL’s.
Our service aims to:
- Facilitate the safe discharge of people from healthcare in hospital to healthcare at home.
- Provide intensive, short term multi-disciplinary rehabilitation & care support to promote functional independence.
Our Professional Offer to You:
- Develop your clinical skills in holistic assessment, problem solving, intervention planning and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.
- Develop management and operational skills.
- Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development.
- Support you to be involved in Physio meetings and In-service training.
- Provide supervision and clinical support.
At GSTT we are committed to providing:
- Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our Community and Hospital settings.
- An annual appraisal and PDR.
- Structured in-service development programs and supervisions.
- Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation.
- Training links to London Southbank and King’s College Universities.
Main duties of the job
Have responsibility for specialist rehabilitation and therapy assessment, specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients.Delegate tasks to RSWs.
Case manage people through intensive short term rehabilitation programmes. Goal setting with clients to maximise independence, facilitate early hospital discharge, reduce reliance on care and reduce admissions to long term domiciliary care.
Work, as a lone practitioner and at times with colleagues, across a variety of locations within the community to meet the needs of a multi-cultural population in an inner city area.
Work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set by the regulatory body (HCPC), professional body (CSP), government, Trust and department, thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work and to meet the requirements for professional registration.Work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team, across traditional professional boundaries to meet the needs of clients using a holistic and client centred approach
To be responsible for practice, education, assessment, mentorship and preceptorship of students and new/junior members of staff. To work towards organisational priorities and achieving service aims.Support the department’s commitment to meeting patient needs and delivering excellence it is essential the post holder be able to work their hours and contribute to both rotas over a 7 day week, including weekday and weekend.
Working for our organisation
About the Trust
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
Integrated Local Services (ILS) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of community and inpatient health services for adults within the communities of Lambeth and Southwark. Our hospital-based inpatient and outpatient services provide care for adults from across the region.
Our services range from health promotion through to delivery of high-quality care for complex patients in the community centres.
Our valuesOur values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. We are:
Caring – we put patients firstAmbitious – we innovate and strive for excellenceInclusive – we respect each other and work collaboratively
As part of our transparent interview process, we will share some of the interview questions with you in advance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Professional / Clinical responsibilities
- To be professionally and legally responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of treatment delivered to the client to ensure a high standard of clinical care.
- To work as an autonomous lone practitioner, case managing clients in the community and co‑ordinating their care.
- To carry out timely assessment, treatment, goal setting and rehabilitation of community clients to prevent admission or re‑admission to hospital or long term domiciliary care and to facilitate early discharge home from hospital.
- To be competent in using a wide variety of specialised assessment and treatment approaches with adults with a range of conditions, including those with severe physical and cognitive impairment or multiple diagnoses in order to formulate treatment plans, maximise rehabilitation potential and set goals.
- Using advanced clinical reasoning skills, analyse and interpret complex assessment findings, from both standardised and non‑standardised assessments in order to formulate an accurate diagnosis and prognosis.
- To be able to analyse and interpret complex clinical and social information from a range of sources.
- To ascertain rehabilitation potential of clients following assessment and devise both uni‑disciplinary and multi‑disciplinary rehabilitation goals which address clinical rehabilitation needs, client choice, service criteria, urgency of need and clinical risk.
- To be able to identify significant health changes that would warrant medical intervention and liaise with the relevant practitioner in a timely manner.
- To educate clients, carers and family members on the client’s medical condition, prognosis and physical management encouraging their involvement and actively promoting healthy lifestyles.
- To implement a range of interventions including, but not limited to, physical and cognitive rehabilitation in functional tasks, work and leisure.
- To undertake patient moving and handling assessments, make recommendations and provide training to informal carers when required.
- To provide recommendations for posture and seating, minor home adaptations, and specialist housing.
- Assess clients’ needs for any rehabilitative equipment and aids to improve safety and functioning within the home as part of a Trusted Assessor role.
- To train RSW’s, therapy assistants, students, informal carers, family members in the use of appropriate equipment.
- Demonstrate the safe use of equipment to external providers of care where appropriate.
- Assess and manage clinical, physical and/or environmental risk.
- To adhere to incident reporting procedures and to support RSWs to do likewise.
- To act as lead health professional for clients when required. This may include initiating and co‑ordinating multi‑disciplinary/multi‑agency meetings, liaising with clients/families and onward referrals to other professionals/agencies.
- To identify significant health changes that would warrant medical intervention and liaise with the relevant practitioner.
- To liaise with the multidisciplinary team and identify when referral on to other professions within the team or outside agencies is indicated. This may include making recommendations on package of care needs when appropriate.
- To maintain accurate and up to date individual client records and ensure safekeeping and confidentiality of these records (including use of the Trust electronic patient records system) in line with Trust, legal and professional requirements.
- To evaluate client intervention and progress in a timely manner using appropriate outcome measures and evaluation tools. To adapt care plans accordingly and delegate tasks appropriately to RSWs.To discharge clients in a timely manner having reviewed the client’s needs and goals, making appropriate onward referrals where necessary.
- To participate in the duty therapy rota for the single point of access, responsible for triage and prioritisation of new referrals.
- To respect an individual’s ethnicity and cultural and religious beliefs.
Please see job description document for full responsibilities.
Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
- Graduate Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy
- State Registration with HCPC
Previous Experience
- Significant broad based post registration experience at band 5 or above
- Experience of working in an adult rehabilitation team environment
- Experience of working within an MDT
- Experience of working within the community
- Experience of direct supervision of more junior staff
- Experience of supervision of pre-registration students
- Experience of clinical audit, benchmarking and evaluation of services
Skills
- Good organisational, time management and prioritisation skills
- Demonstrable Skills in assessing patients with complex conditions, identifying the problems and selecting and implementing the relevant treatment/management programme
- Developed skills in rehabilitation
- Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate sensitive and complex information within different settings, good negotiation skills.
- Understanding of issues related to working within a multi-cultural community
- An understanding of and commitment to maintaining client confidentiality
- Understanding of manual handling and Health and Safety issues related to community working
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and evidence based practice
- Ability to demonstrate skill-sharing and collaborative working at a variety of levels
- Able to manage own caseload and work autonomously in the community and domiciliary settings
- Ability to seek specialist advice as appropriate
- Ability to analyse and understand complex information and communicate appropriately
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the implications of disability on peoples’ lives
Physical Requirements
- Fit for active physical workload and resilient under reasonable pressure of work
- Able to travel around Lambeth
Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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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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