Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 12 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £39,862.00 to £41,771.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £39862.00 - £41771.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 February 2026 |
| Location: | Salisbury, SP1 3UZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | F0041-6649 |
Summary
Specific duties and responsibilities include: Provide comprehensive assessment, treatment, management, onward referral, and discharge for a diverse range of customers referred to the service, ensuring each receives appropriate advice and/or signposting for onward support. Prioritise workload while managing the demands of customer needs, families, other professional staff, and agencies, adapting to an increasing caseload complexity and delivering the service in a way that suits the customers preferred communication method. Maintain professional record-keeping standards, ensuring records are accurate, current, and aligned with professional codes as detailed by HCPC and Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP), service standards, and organisational requirements. Plan and implement treatment support plans based on assessment results, applying clinical reasoning skills, and adjust these plans as needed based on customer progress. Ensure informed consent for assessments and treatments, providing customers with a clear understanding of their condition and rehabilitation potential, and assess their capacity to consent to treatment, with due consideration to insight where capacity is questioned or potentially affected as result of cognitive or other impairment. Monitor and review customer progress, adjusting support plans and treatment goals as needed based on review outcomes to ensure the most effective approach is being utilised. Comply with local policies, procedures, and professional standards, as outlined by the Health and Care Professions Council. Customers may include vulnerable adults therefore develop a working knowledge of relevant procedures including Protection of Vulnerable Adults and other legal frameworks. Uphold safeguarding responsibilities, ensuring that adult safeguarding is carried out in accordance with the law, local policy, and Wiltshire Council policy guidance, including identifying concerns and participating in safeguarding investigations. Create a positive, caring environment where customers can expect high-quality, professional service, and where adherence to treatment and self-management is encouraged for optimal outcomes. Undertake complex manual handling techniques (with appropriate training), ensuring safety and adherence to organisational policies for risk assessment and equipment use. Order necessary equipment to support treatment and ensure it aligns with customer condition and support plans. Work in accordance with standards of practice set out by Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and relevant national and local guidelines, ensuring treatment meets all professional and organisational requirements. Promote customer adherence to treatment and self-management, aiming for the best possible outcomes in line with customer goals. Utilise manual therapy techniques, demonstrating skill in dexterity, coordination, palpation, and sensory assessment to enhance treatment effectiveness. Address psychosocial factors in customer treatment plans, using appropriate techniques to consider mental and emotional factors impacting customers recovery. Be an ambassador for the council at all times, always representing the council positively, professionally and appropriately at meetings with customers, external partners and agencies. Provide supervision and training as required by service to support development of less experienced team members and continued development of service. Undertake and be responsible to own Continued Professional development to maintain registration responsibilities outlined by HCP and CSP. Specific requirements for this post: Ability to travel on a daily basis and to undertake visits to customers in their own homes or in other settings, e.g. hospital. There will be a requirement to occasionally work outside of standard hours, including weekends to meet the needs of the service, for example assessing customers abilities at different times of the day or provide support to other team members. To be flexible and work in other reablement teams as required.