Assistant Practitioner Physiotherapy | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

The Physiotherapy team provides specialist support to enable people to live their lives fully. We work with people with learning disabilities, their families and paid carers in community settings as part of a multi - agency team. We provide assessment and treatment interventions that aim to maximise a person's quality of life

Your role will be absolutely key in the support of our patients. You will help with the undertaking of treatment plans and use your clinical judgement to keep people as safe as possible. Full duties can be found in the job description.

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

Are you passionate about quality care for you patients?

Do you believe in a holistic approach, treating people and not their conditions?

Are you also passionate about your own career development and do you care about your well-being?

KCFT are an "Outstanding" rated Trust and one of the largest NHS Community organisations in the UK. Our mission is pretty simple, empower our communities to live well and be a great employer.

More than half of our workforce work flexibly, including compressed hours and term time only. More than 70% of our workforce feel we take positive action on health and wellbeing, and we are working now to improve this. Our staff survey results put us consistently above the national average for commitment to our workforce.

And with the forward NHS vision being based on community care, there has never been a better time to join us.