Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 162-6898-AV
- Employer
- Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- QH Frailty Unit
- Town
- Romford
- Salary
- 拢51,883 - 拢58,544 Per Annum Inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist - Acute Elderly Units
Band 7
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Job overview
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Main duties of the job
To provide specialist standard Physiotherapist service to patients within the acute elderly team with a special focus on the assessment of patients admitted on the acute elderly wards, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries using a holistic approach.
To give specialist guidance, advice, and education to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.
Provide leadership for your team (in conjunction with the Clinical Leads) in planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the Physiotherapy service provided to patients within your area. 听
To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6, Band 5, Student Physiotherapists and Generic Therapy Assistants听
To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required both within management and clinical areas.
Working for our organisation
We鈥檙e an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we鈥檙e proud of and our patients are happy with. We鈥檙e no longer in ; we鈥檝e opened at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites 鈥 KGH in Goodmayes and Queen鈥檚 Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We鈥檙e campaigning to secure the 拢35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.听
The majority of our 8,000 staff 鈥 who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited . We鈥檙e proud to be a employer.
We鈥檙e looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. 听Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5926. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 鈥 Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- 鈥 H.C.P.C. Registration.
- 鈥 Evidence of CPD.
Desirable criteria
- 鈥 CSP Membership.
- 鈥 Leadership training
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- 鈥 Ability to cope working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers.
Desirable criteria
- 鈥 Competent IT skills.
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 鈥 Proven clinical experience in the relevant field during Band 6 rotations in an acute hospital setting and substantial post graduate experience working in Acute Elderly Care
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yinka Awofolu
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Yinka Awofolu, email [email protected]
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