Senior Physiotherapist | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Ipswich, IP4 5PD
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	14 Oct 2026
Closing date:	13 Nov 2026

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Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to work within our community rehabilitation inpatient services. This role is for a fixed term of 6 months, 37.5 hours per week. The role has been created to provide additional to support to our therapy teams in response to seasonal demand pressures.

There are four East Suffolk Community rehabilitation sites, including Bluebird Lodge, Felixstowe Community Hospital, Aldeburgh Community Hospital and Avocet court care facility, as part of the wider ESNEFT Trust. One of these sites will be your base and you will be expected to work at others sites, depending on demand.

You will work as part of the Therapy team, Including Therapy team leads, an Occupational Therapist, Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Generic Workers, to promote the discharge to assess pathways for in-patients. You will also work alongside the multidisciplinary team of Modern matron, Doctors, Nurses, Social Care workers and Ipswich Hospital transfer of care hub.

We are looking for a Physiotherapist with commitment and enthusiasm, who has a passion to work as part of a team to progress patients rehabilitation goals and use a range of therapy interventions to facilitate timely and appropriate discharges.

• To deliver a high standard of Therapy service.

• To take part under the guidance of the Modern Matron, Therapy Lead and senior members of the team in managing bed occupancy at the Community Hospitals sites.

• To be responsible alongside the multi-disciplinary team for daily caseload management of therapy interventions ensuring all patients receive timely, appropriate, effective treatment and discharge planning.

• To work as an autonomous clinical practitioner in providing complex holistic patient-centred assessments and treatments which are governed by evidence-based practice and follow current NICE Guidelines; ensuring all clinicians involved in patient care keep their practice relevant and current whilst also adhering to HCPC, CQC and Trust clinical and quality standards.

• To ensure as far as is reasonably practical the safety of the patients in your care.

• To participate in own and others continuous professional development, appraisal processes and other developmental activities according to professional registration and trust policies.

• To supervise and assist in the development of junior clinicians, non-qualified staff and students on placement.

• To undertake audit of both clinical practice and processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.

• To work with patients across Community and Acute Hospital settings as part of an Integrated Service.

• Contribute to quality improvement projects and initiatives aimed at improving service delivery and patient rehabilitation outcomes.

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.

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 thatTime Mattersto 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 full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Thursday 22 Oct 2026

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