🌟 Permanent Opportunity: Senior Physiotherapist (Band 6) – Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS)
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Location: NELFT – Community Role covering 3 London boroughs (Office at Goodmayes Hospital, IG3 8XJ)
🕒 Includes weekend rota and late shifts (12–8pm)
Are you a
Band 5 Physiotherapist ready to take the next step in your career? Or a
Band 6 looking for a fresh, rewarding challenge this winter?
We’re offering a
fantastic opportunity to join our dynamic and supportive
Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) – a multidisciplinary community team that plays a vital role in reducing hospital admissions and supporting early discharges.
As a Senior Physiotherapist, You’ll
- Manage your own caseload of community-based patients
- Deliver high-impact, person-centred rehabilitation in patients’ homes
- Collaborate with inpatient and acute teams to ensure seamless transitions of care
- Provide supervision, training, and joint sessions with colleagues across the team
This is your chance to make a
real difference while gaining valuable experience in a fast-paced, community-focused setting.
If you’re passionate about rehabilitation, thrive in a collaborative environment, and want to grow your leadership skills –
we’d love to hear from you.
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Please review the Job Description and ensure you meet the requirements before applying.
Working as part of the Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) to provide high quality, timely rehabilitation for patients requiring step up from the integrated health team or step down from an acute or community bed.
Delivering high quality rehabilitation in a patient’s home rather than in a community bed setting for those patients with a rehabilitation need as part of a multi professional service/team.
Working with patient centred goal orientated rehabilitation to promote self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care.
Providing onward referrals to other community services including health and social care to ensure the safe management of the patient when completing their IRS episode of care.
The post holder will be a Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively support and liaise with other health and social care professionals and agencies.
Please refer to the job description attached for the full responsibilities of the role.
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They Are
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15%of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum, pro rata for part time
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gagan Singh Bhogal Job title: IRS Manager Telephone number: 0300 300 1836
