East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Community Physiotherapist - Ipswich West
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An exciting opportunity for two Community Physiotherapists to join our team are available within the Ipswich West Community Team.
Both Positions Are Fixed Term As Follows
- 1 full time until 31.5.27 and 1 part time until 23.8.27.
You should be an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist who is passionate, committed, innovative, enthusiastic and highly motivated to delivering high quality care within patient’s homes.
We are fortunate enough to be co-located with our nursing, social care colleagues and the out of hours REACT, admission prevention and discharge to assess teams.
This is an opportunity to work within a knowledgeable experienced team and wider MDT. You should be flexible, motivated and willing to work within a changing environment. We will provide support through in-service training and professional forums, Mandatory training, 1:1 and personal development meetings as well as clinical rolling skills training via the practice development facilitators. We facilitate students on training and have close working relationships with neighbouring community teams in Health and Social Care.
Internal applicants will be offered on a secondment basis only.
Proposed Interview date: 9th September 2026
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We are committed to patient centred care in the right place, at the right time and provide a comprehensive supervision and training programme with career progression opportunities within the clinical and managerial fields.
The Therapy service has a high profile within the Trust operating a 7-day service and thrives on innovation and challenge. It has taken a lead role in many developments, which are helping to shape the future of patient pathways within the local area.
Main Responsibilities
- To provide high standard patient care in hospital settings and patients homes
- To ensure a more seamless flow for patient care between hospital and community settings, enabling patients to be cared for in their own home environment
- To provide supervision and support to more junior staff
- To triage referrals to the community team
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 pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
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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. Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. 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.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Hayley Galley
Job title: Ipswich West Therapy Lead
Email address: hayley.galley@esneft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07903 654273
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