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CNRT in West Kent provides a specialist high quality comprehensive physiotherapy service to patients with neurological impairment as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

This includesassessment, advice and treatment of patients presenting with neurological impairments such as Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Huntington's Disease and Head Injury.

The physiotherapist will be working across West Kent as part of a multi-disciplinary team and needs to have a full, clean driving licence and access to own vehicle.

The physiotherapist will be working across West Kent providing high quality specialist neuro-physiotherapy to a range of patients in both community and clinic settings, the working hours are Monday to Friday with potential weekend working in the future.

They will be working jointly withanother clinical lead physiotherapist in supporting the physiotherapy team leadership within CNRT West Kent and responsible for actively managing the physiotherapy waiting lists, the line management of junior physiotherapy staff, the continued quality and development of the physiotherapy CNRT service, and to support the team lead with participating in audit, research and quality improvement projects.

The successful candidate needs to be a car driver and have access to their own vehicle toundertake this role.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.


This advert closes on Sunday 6 Apr 2025