Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated Senior physiotherapist to join our Integrated Network Teams (INTs) in South Gloucestershire.
If you are passionate about delivering high-quality, community therapy and improving quality of life—preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and promoting independence at home—we would love to hear from you.
In return, we are committed to supporting ongoing professional development. You will have opportunities to develop specialist community-based skills, strengthen multidisciplinary working, and gain experience in supporting and supervising colleagues, alongside building key leadership capabilities.
Our INTs are an innovative and dynamic service, providing function-based rehabilitation via support worker visits guided by therapists’ care plans. These visits focus on activities of daily living within individuals’ homes, helping maximise functional potential and maintain independence.
Therapists play a vital role in supporting hospital discharges, preventing admissions, and enabling long-term self-management—empowering patients to live well at home; Working closely with local authority partners to ensure individuals requiring longer-term rehabilitation or care are referred appropriately.
Duties
You will be part of a friendly, supportive multidisciplinary team, working alongside AHPs, Nurses, Specialist Practitioners, Support Workers, and administrative staff. There is frequent, collaborative cross-disciplinary working between AHPs/ nursing.
- Initial holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients who are acutely and chronically unwell, often with complex needs.
- Use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate, patient- centred intervention programmes using an evidence-based practice approach, promoting high-quality and harm-free care.
- Responsible for proactive service and own caseload management
- Responsible for the allocation of work and efficient service/team coordination
- Develop and maintain strong, communicative working relationships to prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate timely discharges.
- Collaborate and negotiate with service users, carers and family in identifying achievable goals as part of the overall care plan to maximise quality of life and independence.
- Facilitate appropriate referrals to other services based on your assessment
- Assess and arrange the provision of equipment within the scope of practice, reporting any issues
- Take responsibility for the development of other members of the INT, including peers, junior staff, and students
- Maintain accurate, informative and legal records
- Actively participate in training; this may involve assisting in the delivery
- Identify risks and act accordingly to minimise risk to self, colleagues and service users
- Actively support junior colleagues within the team on a day-to-day basis
- Proactive engagement in improving service delivery & implementing service changes
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas. It's time to turn your dream into reality!
We are Sirona Care & Health – England’s largest provider of adults’ and Children’s Community Services, and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits we offer.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet, which you can find as an attachment on this vacancy.
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Jo Cuthbert
Job title: INT Manager
Email address: jo.cuthbert@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07813620333
