Senior Physiotherapist

Do you have a passion for ensuring effective, quality care and support for adults in care homes, ensuring they avoid unnecessary admissions to hospital and receive the right care in the right place? Do you have experience of working in either a health or social care setting? This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to make your mark shaping a new role to meet the needs of the Care Home residents, Care Homes and commissioners and deliver positive change.


This role will facilitate effective, appropriate and timely therapy support to care homes and their residents providing education and clinical support in the community, avoiding attendance to the acute trust where possible. You will work as part of a care home project team including nurses and therapy to collectively support groups of care homes while also working with the local Integrated Neighbourhood Team to ensure joined up seamless care .
You will have excellent communication skills and will be required to get out and meet with Care Homes, building ongoing relationships with the managers and owners to promote the role
Maintain open communication with social care providers, primary care and commissioning to make recommendations for improvements to support effective outcomes for adults
Develop and gather information to demonstrate effectiveness of the Care Home project. This will include the production of regular monitoring reports.

This is a unique opportunity and anyone who has worked in the Care Home sector will immediately recognise the benefits of introducing this new role. You need to be credible and your ability to work with Care Homes to ensure effective and quality outcomes for residents is critical.


We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.


We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.


We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.


This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.


Range of rotational acute/community care experiences - and acute discharge planning
Demonstrable In-service training and reflective learning in these specialities
Directing patient care

Supervision of students in any environment
Completed rotation in Emergency Care (A& E, EAU, FAB) and/or
Completed rotation in Complex and/or Completed rotation in Community care

BSc/MSc Occupational Therapy
Principles and practices of rehabilitation
Health and Safety and Risk awareness

Knowledge of local community services and value of inter-agency working
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust