Senior Physiotherapist - Rotational

Senior Physiotherapist - Rotational

The closing date is 31 March 2026

We are recruiting for a Senior Physiotherapist to join our Rotational scheme. We are looking for a candidate who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We offer excellent opportunities for new and experienced band 6's wanting to enhance their skills. We offer strong professional leadership across the acute therapy service at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We also offer a community rotation in partnership with Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.

Our inpatient service covers Acute Trust rotations at Lister Hospital, Stevenage which includes respiratory care, including on call opportunities; orthopaedics; care of the elderly; stroke/hyper-acute stroke unit; general medical wards and acute medical assessment.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the post will include assessment and treatment of patients within the wards at Lister Hospital and in their own homes when on community rotation, supervision and mentoring of non-qualified staff and students, taking part in in-service training, and taking a role in service improvement projects.

You will be actively involved in the respiratory physiotherapy on-call service to the whole of the Lister Hospital site.

You will also be expected to travel easily between trust sites independently.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification Qualifications/Training

• HCPC registration
• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Previous Experience

• Experience of integrated working
• Knowledge of relevant standardised assessment tools and outcome measures
• Evidence of clinical practise influenced by evidence based practise
• Knowledge of advanced anatomy and physiology related to clinical area
• Implementation and adherence to Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Standards/Guidelines
• Ability to promote development in others
• Student placement or staff members supervisor
• Ability to monitor and maintain Best Practice in all aspects of health & Safety - in own practices and of wider service

Skills

• Clear, concise and ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences; to utilise a variety of mediums and approaches
• Able to influence, guide, teach, motivate and lead others
• Information technology skills including: e-mail, Word, Excel & Power Point
• Developed Clinical problem solving ability
• Ability to assess patient conditions, establish a diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan, from a range of modalities
• Developed skills in physiotherapeutic techniques
• Ability to educate individual patients, relatives or carers about the nature of their condition and self-management techniques
• Ability to teach and present physiotherapy topics to qualified and non/qualified staff and other health care professions, individually or in groups.

Personal Qualities

• Adaptable and flexible
• Empathy, good listener, humility and honesty
• Seek to improve self and others in order to deliver best possible care
• Responsible and reliable attitude to work
• Confident and motivated

Other Requirements

• Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
• Eligible to live and work in the UK

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust