Community Physiotherapist

Main area Physiotherapy Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4109

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Braintree Community Hospital Town Braintree Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/2026 23:59

Job Overview

Are you a newly qualified Physiotherapist, or a student soon to qualify, looking for an exciting opportunity to launch your career in a supportive and rewarding environment?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Physiotherapist to join our Community Therapy Team, This is an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical skills while supporting patients to achieve their rehabilitation goals within their own homes and local community settings.

Community Therapy offers a unique and rewarding experience, allowing you to work closely with patients throughout their rehabilitation journey, promoting independence, recovery and quality of life.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team assessing and treating adults with a wide range of conditions and supporting them to regain function and confidence in their daily lives.

You will benefit from regular supervision, a structured preceptorship programme, and ongoing development opportunities designed to build confidence, competence and clinical expertise.

If you are passionate about helping people recover and thrive within their communities, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Provide a high quality Physiotherapy service to patients referred to the Community Therapy team.

Hold clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients.

Undertake a high standard of Physiotherapy assessments of patients with diverse presentations using clinical reasoning skills to provide a diagnosis and deliver individualised treatment programmes.

Provide advice and education to optimise health, wellbeing and to promote better self-management of a condition.

Work as an autonomous practitioner within the multidisciplinary team.

Ensure timely discharge of patients from the service and refer patients on to other health, social care and voluntary agencies as appropriate.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Eligible for NHS Pension

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see Job Description document for full details. We look forward to hearing from you. If you have any questions that you would like to ask, please contact Rebecca Nash, Team Lead 07890 607419.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy

Registration

Essential criteria

• HCPC registration

Car driver

Essential criteria

• Must be a car driver with access to a car and have a UK driving licence

IT

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Systm One

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant clinical experience including student clinical placements

Team Working

Essential criteria

• Good understanding of the roles of other professionals

Communication

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate to a high standard in English both verbally and in writing

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via ***email_hidden***
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

Checking progress on your application?

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or ***email_hidden***.

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.