Physiotherapist - Intermediate Care
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves acting as an expert in assessing and managing patients with various pathologies, providing high-standard physiotherapy services within Torbay. You will work across community rehabilitation, crisis response, and intermediate care, including participation in weekend and late duty rotas. The position requires delivering high-quality care to housebound patients as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will undertake autonomous clinical duties, including advanced assessments and formulating individualised treatment programmes.
Key responsibilities
- Act as a source of expertise on the assessment and management of patients with a wide range of pathologies.
- Provide a high standard of physiotherapy service within Torbay, covering community rehabilitation, crisis response, and Intermediate care.
- Deliver high quality care to housebound patients and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, managing clinical risk for own work.
- Undertake advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse or complex conditions to provide accurate diagnosis and prognosis.
- Formulate and deliver individualised physiotherapy treatment programmes, including manual therapy, patient education, and exercise.
Essential criteria
- Diploma/degree in physiotherapy State registration - current HCPC certificate
- Experience within the NHS including experience as a junior in a broad rotational post covering a range of experience in orthopaedics, elderly care, medical, surgical, neurological and musculoskeletal conditions
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent Postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical field
- Working knowledge of a broad range of musculoskeletal, neurological and medical conditions common in the elderly
- Knowledge of the relevant NSFs and clinical guidelines
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience supervising student physiotherapists or physiotherapy assistant/technical instructors/support workers
- Some experience working with a biopsychosocial approach to assessment and treatment
- Experience of working in inpatient, outpatient and community settings
- An understanding of Clinical Governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and participation in research and audit
- Competent IT skills
- Ability to maintain judgement under pressure
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Presentation skills
- Ability to contribute to weekend/evening working rosters
- Ability to work alone assessing and managing risk. Clinical workload involves daily/weekly/monthly domiciliary visits with telephone support from the physiotherapy lead if required, and lone working during the out of hours service
- Ability to be mobile in the South Devon area to complete community visits and attend meetings
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate training/experience in rehabilitation and elderly care
- Experience of primary care rehabilitation
- Knowledge of the safeguarding adults process
- Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation surrounding health and adult social care
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Physiotherapist - Intermediate Care
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge whilst working within the Community?
We are looking for someone to act as a source of expertise on the assessment and management of patients presenting with a wide range of pathologies to physiotherapists, student physiotherapists, skilled non-registered staff, other healthcare professionals, GPs, Consultants, patients and their carers.
Able to provide a high standard of physiotherapy service within Torbay. Which will involve community rehabilitation, crisis response and Intermediate care cover. You will be required to work between these area's dependant on needs of the service, this will take part in the Baywide Intermediate Care weekend rota and late duty rota within the zone. This may also include from time to time, covering other localities within the Trust.
Please feel free to contact us if you require any further information.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver high quality care to the housebound patients of Torbay and work as part of multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with primary care and secondary care.
- Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, including professional and legal accountability and managing clinical risk for all aspects of own wo
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