Community Specialist Physiotherapist

Go back Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 29 March 2026

An exciting opportunity to join the Northwich community therapy team has arisen. Come and join our amazing, friendly and supportive team! Your role will assess, manage and provide treatment to a community caseload of patients with complex and/or multiple therapy needs. You will be lone working on a daily basis and will have MDT and peer support with the Northwich team.

There may be an expectation to work between multiple sites in the organisation.

This is a permanent post.

• Your role will assess, manage and provide treatment to a caseload of patients with complex and/or multiple therapy needs.
• There is a varied caseload and you will need to demonstrate knowledge, experience and relevant clinical skills with patients with complex / long term conditions, falls, orthopaedics, general mobility problems and neurological conditions.
• The successful candidate will work as a member of our integrated multidisciplinary team alongside Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants, District Nurses, Complex Care Practitioners, Advanced Community Practitioners, Macmillan team and will be responsible for supervising junior members of staff and students.
• There will be associated administrative duties and you will need to be computer literate with a good knowledge of Microsoft packages and have accurate keyboard skills.
• Our team utilises digital technology to support remote working and accommodate a flexible working approach where possible and is supported to do this with access to a laptop.
• You are required to be a car driver and have access to your own vehicle.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

• Manage a clinical caseload with autonomy, work without direct supervision
• Undertake comprehensive physiotherapy assessment, provide a therapeutic diagnosis (using investigative and advanced analytical skills, specialist listening, physical and observational skills, interpret clinical findings and documentation) and implement agreed treatment plans if appropriate, including the treatment of complex service users with multiple pathologies in a manner that respects peoples privacy dignity and individuality
• Provide individual or group therapy as appropriate to setting
• Implement monitoring and evaluation of treatment in order to measure progress and outcomes to ensure effectiveness of interventions and service delivery
• Develop programmes of care to support discharge from service
• Be responsible for equipment used in carrying out clinical duties, and to adhere to policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice
• Record, maintain and store accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal and local requirements. Communicate outcomes of assessments/intervention to appropriate disciplines in form of letters/reports/discharge summaries
• Arrange appointments (as applicable), work closely with MDT, attend case reviews/case conferences/variety of MDT internal and external meetings/forums
• Contribute to the safeguarding of our Service users/families as appropriate
• Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with service users including those service users who lack capacity to consent to treatment, within your organisations policies.
• Be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of Service users under your care
• Maintain professional registration with HCPC
• Work within organisation, HCPC and CSP guidelines
• Have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own and…