Highly Specialised Physiotherapist - CR-STAT | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team delivering specialist rehabilitation across Greenwich. We support adults with complex needs, providing evidence-based, person-centred care in community settings. As a Band 7 Physiotherapist, you’ll lead clinical practice, supervise junior staff, and contribute to service development. You’ll need advanced rehabilitation skills, excellent communication, and a passion for empowering patients to achieve their goals. We offer ongoing CPD and the opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives.

To provide an effective and efficient specialist Physiotherapy service to adults who have a rehabilitation needs and potential. To manage a specialist caseload, including those with complex needs. Duties will include assessment, diagnosis, and therapy, planning therapy programmes and discharging patients. To work as a lone and autonomous practitioner in the community.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• Undertake highly skilled/developed physiotherapy assessments to determine, develop and implement individual care/treatment plans for patients some of whom may have complex needs, which may require advanced skills.
• To maintain up-to-date clinical written records using computerised database in accordance with local and professional standards; and also writing comprehensive discharge and progress reports to medical referrers.
• To utilise developed communication and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural population in a range of disease specific physiotherapeutic techniques, principals and guidelines
• To provide highly specialist training and education programmes for medical colleagues allied health care professionals, rehabilitation assistants, and health care assistants, in the form of lectures, tutorials and presentations
• To maintain continuing professional development by participating in regular in service training, supervision, reflective practice and attending study days and training, giving feedback to the team where appropriateto disseminate learning
• To provide caseload supervision and allocation to the rehabilitation assistants, band 5 and 6 physiotherapists, undergraduate and graduate physiotherapy students in conjunction with colleagues.
• To actively participate in the induction and development of new members of the CAR team.
• To attend statutory training annually
• To maintain competency and proficiency in manually handling people and therapeutic manual handling
• To flexibly plan and organise own time
• To achieve the effective daily management of a caseload of clients, including prioritising clinical work and balancing other client related and professional duties
• To provide statistical information as required in a timely manner
• To keep up-to-date statistics in accordance with service requirements
• To be responsible for any organisational tasks related to the post
• To be flexible in the undertaking of any other duties as requested by line managers to meet the changing needs of the service
• To attend service and trust meetings and case conferences as required

For full details of job description & responsibilities please see attached document

This advert closes on Thursday 21 May 2026

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