Band 6 Early Intervention Senior Physiotherapist – Central: Sponsorship Available

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Job summary

***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 EarlyIntervention 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

  • 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

Desirable

  • Experience of working with other agencies.

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

  • 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

Essential

  • 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

Essential

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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 8 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.