Senior Specialist Physiotherapist
Listed on 2026-09-16
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Healthcare
Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Community Health, Healthcare Nursing
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals.
Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: York
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
Hours: 30 hours (4 days per week)
Why join us?Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals.
Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
- Responsible for the day-to-day management and leadership of staff within the service and provide support to staff as required
- To provide on-site leadership for the team and take an active role in service developments through the use of service user participation strategies, peer review, audit, and evaluation of outcome measures
- Responsible for overseeing service delivery from referral to discharge to ensure treatment programmes are planned and delivered effectively
- To maintain an awareness of the caseloads of the team to ensure the most effective and efficient service is provided.
- To be responsible for leading clinical governance activity within the team with regard to clinical risk management and for implementing clinical governance policies, standards and guidelines.
- Responsible for ensuring a high standard of service, delivered within local and national guidelines and within the resources available. To ensure documentation produced by other members of the team is in line with professional and Brainkind standards
- To be responsible to chair interdisciplinary team meetings and review meetings as appropriate
- To work with other professionals in managing operational issues of services which cross organisational boundaries
- To hold responsibility for managing own caseload within an agreed defined clinical area
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapy intervention to meet the assessed needs of service users
- To monitor attendance of mandatory and other required training for members of team
- To improve own and others research and development skills through participation in audit projects
- Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks
- Suitable applicants will have a degree/diploma within physiotherapy and be HCPC registered.
- Relevant post-registration training and experience and relevant leadership experience and training in a health/social care setting
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Proven experience of working in an appropriate service across healthcare settings
- Experience of working with clients with moderate to advanced neurological disease and disability
- Demonstrable experience of evidence-based practice, research, audit and outcome measures
- Highly…
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