Band 6 Early Intervention Senior Physiotherapist

Transformationunitgm; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - GBP 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare organization in Birmingham is seeking an Early Intervention Senior Physiotherapist to join their team. This full-time role involves delivering high-quality rehabilitation services within patients' homes, collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to prevent hospital admissions. Candidates must hold a Physiotherapy degree and HCPC registration, alongside strong communication and leadership skills. The position offers a salary between £38,682 and £46,580, with opportunities for career development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Extensive holidays

Discounts for local and national retailers

Dedicated well-being services for all employees

Flexible working where possible

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• Current HCPC registration is required.
• Extensive evidence of relevant post registration training and CPD.

Responsibilities

• Complete assessments and interventions in patients' homes.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Support junior staff and lead service development projects.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving approach

Flexible working approach

IT skills in Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook

Education

Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy

Current Health and Care Professions Council registration

Job description

Main area Adult Community Services Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible - to cover 7 days a week 08:00 to 22:00) Job ref 820-7753228-COM

Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Kenrick Centre Town Birmingham Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/02/2026 23:59

Band 6 Early Intervention Senior Physiotherapist

Band 6

Job overview

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested

Please note, this is an internal vacancy and only employees of Birmingham Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC), Trust Bank and agency staff engaged with BCHC are eligible to apply at this time.

Looking for a new opportunity to develop your skills in rehabilitation?
Want to live in the youngest city in Europe? Truly cosmopolitan with a diverse population of over 1.1 million, Birmingham has the largest open space in Europe and fantastic network links to the rest of the UK.

Look no further, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Early
Intervention Community Team within Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community trust in the country.
Part of a wider Early Intervention programme, which has so far delivered: 77000 fewer acute bed days used, 19000 fewer non-acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system. Overall having an impact of £25.8million saved for Birmingham to reinvest in Health and Social Care developments.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, and facilitating early hospital discharge, plus the added bonus of Birmingham being a fantastic place to work and live.

A real opportunity to work within the self-motivated and aspirational MDT daily, we are currently looking for someone to dynamically lead and promote a culture of home first rehabilitation, so the people of Birmingham are treated in the right place at the right time, evidenced by clinical and performance outcomes.

Working for our organisation

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working multi-professionally, completing assessments and interventions, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality intervention to patients within their own homes and other community settings. A person who is an excellent communicator with a flexible approach, and has existing, or an eagerness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for 'trusted assessor' principles, will be at an advantage when working in this team. You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care.

We run an excellent Inspire leadership training programme for all staff with line management responsibility, alongside other opportunities to develop your career.

HCPC/NMC registrations are a requirement for registered staff roles. The post holder will be expected to work shifts as required over 7 days (8am – 8pm)

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

• Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• Current Health and Care Professions Council registration.
• Extensive evidence of relevant post registration training and CPD.

Experience

• Evidence of working in/with the wider Multi-Disciplinary team
• Relevant rehabilitation experience for a variety of people in a community setting.
• Proven Supervisory skills. Ability to plan and delegate daily workload
• Ability to demonstrate and share knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical
• Experience of working with other agencies.

Skills/Knowledge

• Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessment and treatment approaches for the client group.
• Demonstrates a problem solving approach.
• IT skills in Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
• Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance.
• Knowledge and application of clinical effectiveness and evidence based practice. Understanding and application of the CSP code of Professional Conduct.
• Knowledge and application of Health and Safety issues and their relevance in the Community.
• Ability to administer and interpret standardise assessments/outcome measures.
• Ability to act as mentor/supervisor to junior staff and students on placement.
• Awareness of legislation related to Safeguarding Vulnerable adults. Knowledge and awareness of current government and initiative drivers.
• Ability to safely handle patients and equipment and to work in a range of positions

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates clear and effective verbal and communicative skills
• Demonstrates ability to generate written communications which are concise, accurate, and legible
• Demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to the needs of individuals from diverse social and cultural groups
• Able to work independently and delegate work to others appropriately
• Ability to develop and teach ongoing in-service training programmes to junior members of staff/students
• Ability to identify and action health promotion
• Able to demonstrate knowledge and apply standard setting/clinical audit and its relationship to research
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• Flexible working approach to changing circumstances
• Organised approach to CPD

Other Job Requirements

• Willing to work flexible hours including weekends and Bank Holidays as part of a rota.
• Ability to work across various sites in Birmingham

In accordance with UK Home Office requirements, Band 2 clinical and non-clinical roles and Band 3 Non-Clinical roles are not eligible for sponsorship.

Please note that the majority of non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Band 3 - 6) with the exception of those which appear on this list - link , will not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK.

All non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Bands 7 - 9) that meet the prescribed skill level (RQF 6) and salary threshold will be eligible for sponsorship.

The Trust will accept applications from candidates who can evidence their right to work in the UK or via alternative visa routes.

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As part of our ongoing commitment to being a Great Place to Work, we actively foster and support a workplace culture that is inclusive and equitable for all staff, patients and service users.

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcomed and valued. We are also dedicated to supporting the career progression of colleagues from underrepresented backgrounds into this role and more senior roles within the Division and the wider organisation.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

DBS Costs

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with the Trust will be charged for the cost of their DBS check if it is required for the role. The cost will be deducted from your salary in 3 payments over a 3-month period once you start employment. By applying for this role, you are agreeing to these deductions being made. The charges for the DBS include the administration fee. The total costs are £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced check. The level of check will be determined by the post you are applying for. For bank Workers the full cost of the DBS check (as detailed above) will be deducted from your pay following completion of your online mandatory training. No payment will be made for your online training until it is all complete and verified by the Temporary Staffing Team. Please note: You will not be able to work any bank shifts until you have completed your mandatory training, and your DBS is in place.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust acknowledges Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini etc; are powerful tools that can help you in various stages of your job application and how they can be used in certain circumstances during your application process with BCHC. You can read more about acceptable use on our internet pages here

Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees
• Flexible working where possible

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested