HCRG Care Group
Specialist Community Physiotherapist
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Job Introduction
Make a Real Difference in Stroke Rehabilitation
Every stroke survivor's recovery journey is unique. As a Specialist Community Physiotherapist, you will play a pivotal role in helping individuals regain independence, confidence, and quality of life following a stroke. This is an opportunity to combine expert clinical practice with leadership, working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team dedicated to delivering outstanding patient-centred care across Wiltshire.
Base: Wilton Health Centre
Hours: 28 hours per week
About The Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced clinician to join our Early Supported Discharge (ESD) Service. In this role, you will provide specialist neurological assessment, treatment, support, and advice to individuals recovering from stroke, enabling them to achieve their rehabilitation goals within their home and community settings.
You will also provide professional and clinical leadership to registered practitioners and support workers, helping to develop a skilled and supportive workforce that delivers high-quality stroke rehabilitation services.
Package Description
As a Specialist Community Physiotherapist, you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver a specialist physiotherapy service for stroke patients within the Early Supported Discharge (ESD) pathway, providing high-quality assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation in community settings.
- Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments and develop person-centred rehabilitation plans that promote recovery, independence, and quality of life.
- Support timely hospital discharge and prevent unnecessary admissions by enabling safe and effective rehabilitation within patients' homes and local communities.
- Empower patients and their families to actively participate in care planning and decision-making, ensuring goals reflect individual needs and aspirations.
- Monitor, evaluate, and adapt treatment programmes to maximise rehabilitation outcomes, maintaining accurate and up-to-date clinical records.
- Assess, prescribe, and provide training in the safe use of rehabilitation equipment to patients, carers, and colleagues as appropriate.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to case reviews, MDT meetings, and integrated care planning to ensure seamless patient care.
- Provide specialist stroke advice, guidance, and support to colleagues across integrated community teams and partner services.
- Act as a clinical role model, providing supervision, mentorship, and support to junior staff, rehabilitation support workers, and students to promote high standards of practice.
- Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the implementation of innovative practices that enhance stroke rehabilitation services across Wiltshire.
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Essential
- Degree in Physiotherapy (BSc/BSc Hons or equivalent), HCPC registration, and relevant post-registration training.
- Experience working with adults with neurological conditions, including stroke rehabilitation, delivering patient-centred assessment, treatment, and case management.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams, collaborating across services, and building effective relationships with patients, carers, and partner organisations.
- Demonstrable leadership, supervision, teaching, or mentoring experience, with a commitment to supporting the development of colleagues and students.
- Strong clinical reasoning, communication, organisational, and IT skills, with the ability to manage a varied caseload, maintain clinical records, and communicate sensitive information effectively.
- Evidence of continuing professional development, evidence-based practice, and a commitment to maintaining high standards of care.
Desirable
- Experience working within community-based rehabilitation or Early Supported Discharge services.
- Involvement in service development, quality improvement, clinical audit, or implementing changes to practice.
- Experience working with a broad range of patient groups and external agencies to support integrated care pathways.
- Evidence of an innovative and flexible approach to service delivery and improving patient outcomes.
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For full details of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached Job Description.
About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
Questions About The Role?
If you'd like to find out more about this role or need any support with your application, please contact Thomas Pritchard, Recruitment Advisor, on 07884 659779, or via email at thomas.pritchard@hcrgcaregroup.com. My working hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm.
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