Highly Specialist Physiotherapist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 18 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of inner London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 September 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW12 9HS |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7424949/294-MHCA-7424949-JB |
Summary
Wandsworth Community Learning Disability Healthcare Team is a dynamic multidisciplinary team with a range of professional groups including nursing, occupational therapy, psychiatry, speech and language, dietetics and physiotherapy. Psychology and behaviour support provision is delivered within an integrated MDT. The service works in close partnership with external health and social care professionals, local providers and third sector organisations.
You’ll be part of a team that is compassionate and supportive, and genuinely committed to working together with the people who use our services, their families, carers and wider networks.
You will need specialist clinical assessment skills and the ability to work with people who present with complex physical disability. You will be involved in 24-hour postural management, MDT working in dysphagia management, mobility assessments and falls prevention, as well as optimising exercise opportunities for adults with learning disabilities. Assessment and intervention will take place in a variety of community settings including clients’ own homes, supported living facilities, registered care homes and community day services.
You will not only carry a varied caseload but will also provide clinical leadership to a small team of physiotherapists and assistants. You will be supported in this aspect of the role by the Clinical Team Leader and Clinical Service Lead.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
To work as an autonomous and often lone practitioner within the standards of professional practice laid down by the Charted Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Work is undertaken with a diverse, highly complex population of service users, many of whom have multiple pathologies or no formalised medical diagnosis.
To use available evidence base and work in partnership with service users, carers, colleagues and other stakeholders.
To offer interventions that are person centred, respecting choice and values.
To use a problem-solving approach, identifying and managing risk, and working in the most appropriate environment for service users and their carers ensuring equitable and accessible service provision. To offer interventions aimed at empowering service users to take responsibility for self-management, where this is possible
To work with service users individually or in groups, as appropriate.
To independently manage a caseload of service users with complex health and social care needs.
To undertake specialist service user-centred assessments using analytical and clinical reasoning skills to develop and implement programmes of care and treatment. This requires the maintenance of a high level of clinical competence within the fields of anatomy, physiology and pathology, especially neurological and orthopaedic pathologies.
To assess for, recommend, monitor and prescribe (where appropriate) aids, equipment, footwear, specialist seating/wheelchairs and postural control systems in order to ensure that people with additional physical disabilities are able to live as independently as possible and minimise the physical demands on carers.
The physiotherapist must take a holistic view of the service user and their wellbeing considering all factors and not purely focus on a specific medical condition, sign or symptom.
To use clinical reasoning and reflection to evaluate and interpret a range of complex information gathered during assessment and intervention with service users.
To evaluate outcomes, for self and supervised staff, in order to measure the effectiveness of interventions and use this to re-assess and modify goals/ interventions or develop discharge plans, working within Trust & CSP guidelines and local and national standards of practice, ensuring own and others quality of practice.
To use verbal and non-verbal communication tools to gain valid informed consent prior to assessment and intervention and use the legal framework pertaining to service users who lack the capacity to consent.
To work autonomously with service users in a range of settings including their home, out in the community, day care, work or college placements and other health settings.
To facilitate an integrated approach to care and incorporate the service user’s therapeutic management into Care plans.
To ensure service users receive an equitable service by acting as a professional advocate in referring and facilitating access to other disciplines within the MDT, generic healthcare services, social services and voluntary organisations; demonstrating a sound knowledge of eligibility criteria for these services.
To supervise less experienced physiotherapists, Physiotherapy assistant/technician to ensure a high standard of service user care.
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Sep 2025