Senior Physiotherapist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	09 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£40,617 - £48,778 per annum (inc of HCAS)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 April 2026
Location:	Maidenhead, SL6 6DU
Company:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7857202/371-CHS1180

Summary

Our Physical Health Inpatient Units aim to provide an inclusive rehabilitative service that empowers service users to develop the tools they need to improve their health and wellbeing — enabling them to heal, grow and reclaim their lives.


We are seeking a dynamic senior physiotherapist who shares our values, demonstrates curiosity, and welcomes challenges at St Mark’s Hospital. You’ll manage a complex caseload, delivering tailored rehabilitation to adults and older adults with multi-pathologies and frailty. Using advanced clinical reasoning, specialist manual skills, and collaborative goal-setting, you’ll help maximise potential, regain independence and transition successfully to the community.


Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is a compassionate trust, with a commitment to constant improvement within the fast-moving healthcare environment. All staff have the opportunity for training in leadership, service improvement, and personal growth through structured supervision and regular bespoke development opportunities.


If you are looking for a role that will stretch your clinical reasoning, strengthen your leadership skills and give you scope to influence service development in a rewarding environment, this could be your next step.


Flexible working, part-time, and job-share options are available for the right candidate.


To be responsible for the physiotherapy management of a complex and varied rehabilitation caseload in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.


To provide highly skilled specialist assessments, implementation and evaluation of individualised evidence-based treatments with a view to collaboratively maximise potential, regain independence and transition successfully to the community.


To work alongside the multidisciplinary team, service users and families to produce measurable and individualised rehabilitation goals and care plans.


To supervise and inspire students, multitherapy assistants and registered staff with support from your team lead and partner universities.


To participate in self and team development, including supervisions, in service trainings, appraisals and informal/formal teaching.


Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites



The “must haves” for this role

Qualifications/Training


Essential.

• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy

• HCPC registration


Previous Experience


Essential

• Relevant post graduate NHS experience

• Relevant inpatient experience at Band 5 or Band 6.

• Experience supervising students, assistants or registered staff.


Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities


Essential

• Clinical knowledge and skill in relevant areas which could include orthopaedics, neurology, care of the elderly, vascular.

• Ability to manage own caseload independently and ascertain of responsibility, prioritise and delegate.
• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information where there may have been a barrier to understanding.
• Demonstrates a flexible and adaptable approach to working.
• Good level of computer literacy

Additional Requirements
• Holds a full drivers license and have access to a vehicle for use for work purposes.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.

If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required



This advert closes on Monday 16 Mar 2026

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