Bank Specialist Physiotherapist Band 6
| Posting date: | 05 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £22.00 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £22.00 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE13 6LH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9197-26-0004 |
Summary
To be responsible for the safe and competent use of the inpatient/outpatient gym, electrotherapy and manual handling equipment, as well as other aids and appliances by patients in your working area, ensuring that any Band 5 Physiotherapists and Assistants obtain competency prior to use. To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of physiotherapy interventions and ensure that treatment programmes are progressing appropriately. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies. To promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To be consulted by staff under the postholders supervision To participate in and where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning To maintain good working links and liase with GPs and all relevant others involved with each patients care, ensuring consultation, feedback and discharge communication. To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients where there may be barriers to understanding or the inability to accept diagnosis. To facilitate the best possible communication outcome in every situation and use appropriate services e.g. interpreters To ensure that individual practice and that of the local pathway team is user focused and patient views are incorporated into treatment planning To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme. To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and sensitive nature including details of prognosis or disability that may be unwelcome To receive complex patient related information from patients, relatives, carers and other professionals to effectively plan and develop individual case management To communicate and advise regarding complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working within the physiotherapy service and with other professionals across health and other agencies to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service To be integral in discharge planning including liaison with referring hospitals or community staff to which patients are discharged, providing timely discharge reports To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence based practice and research where appropriate. To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice within the pathway To facilitate the implementation and evaluation of physiotherapy clinical outcomes within a designated pathway and monitor adherence with professional and national standards. To work to Trust and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored To raise physiotherapy staff awareness of current clinical developments and the implications these may have on clinical practice To be accessible and provide specialist clinical advice to colleagues in particular for complex case management Once considered competent, to participate in the on-call, week-end, bank holiday and extended working rotas where clinically appropriate and in the absence of Band 7 staff to be responsible for any Band 5 physiotherapists in the team To fully participate in whatever pattern of working is required by the service in the future. To work in GP outreach clinics as necessary, with telephone support from a senior physiotherapist if required.