Senior Physiotherapist - Medical & Surgical Rotation

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Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Colney is seeking a Senior Physiotherapist to provide care across various specialties including Stroke, Critical Care, and Respiratory Medicine. This position requires excellent communication skills and offers opportunities for professional development and supervision of junior staff. The role involves managing a caseload, participating in out-of-hours work, and supporting teaching programs. Full-time and flexible working hours are available, with a salary range of £31,049 - £46,580 per year.

Benefits

Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service

Excellent pension scheme

Discounted gym memberships

Free confidential counseling support

Qualifications

• Postgraduate experience as a Physiotherapist in a post with rotational opportunities.
• Experience supervising students or physiotherapy assistants.
• Experience in audit, research and understanding quality issues.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and manage your own caseload of patients.
• Support supervision of junior staff and students.
• Participate in out-of-hours work as necessary.

Skills

Patient management

Communication skills

Supervision

Critical decision-making

Education

Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy

Registration with the Health Professions Council (UK)

Job description

Main area Physiotherapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: Substantive Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week (Will also consider Band 5 to Band 6 progression.) Job ref 234-25-F1289

Employer Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Town Norwich Salary £31,049 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/01/2026 23:59 Interview date 13/01/2026

Senior Physiotherapist - Medical & Surgical Rotation

NHS AfC: Band 6

At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.

NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.

Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:

People-focused

We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.

Respect

We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.

Integrity

We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.

Dedication

We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.

We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.

We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.

At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Senior Physiotherapists to join us within our established inpatient Medical/Surgical Senior Rotation! You would rotate in 9 monthly blocks around specialties including Stroke and Neurosciences, Older Persons Medicine, Acute Medicine, Critical Care, Respiratory Medicine as well as others. We are looking for someone who is dynamic, pro‑active and enthusiastic about supporting patients during acute illness whether them be post‑operatively, managing and preventing acute respiratory compromise, supporting admission avoidance or acute stroke rehabilitation. You will need excellent communication skills as you will be working within a variety of teams and with a caseload of patients with possible complex communication needs.

If you were successful in the role, you would support supervision of junior staff, assistant staff and students, delegating workload as appropriate. You will have opportunity to support in‑house teaching programmes and external teaching opportunities through our links with the University of East Anglia.

This exciting role offers the opportunity to further develop your clinical and non‑clinical skills with access to in‑service training and personal development. You will receive supervision and annual appraisal and take an active role within your own personal development.

Main duties of the job

As a band 6 rotational Physiotherapist, you will be expected to prioritise and manage your own caseload of patients while providing supervision and support to junior colleagues, assistants and students. You will have an active role in the development of the team and the delivery and evaluation of services provided to patients.

You will be expected to participate in out‑of‑hours work and to take responsibility for the management of acutely ill patients requiring physiotherapeutic intervention. This will also involve supporting junior staff to develop their own skills and experience to perform on‑call and weekend duties.

As a senior member of the team you will rotate between you will be expected to support the senior staff in the daily operational and clinical management of the team as required.

You will be required to take an active role in the provision of physiotherapy student placements.

The rotations are of 9 months duration and comprise the following rotations.

• Neurosciences
• Neuro‑Oncology
• Critical Care
• Medical Respiratory
• Thoracic Surgery
• Vascular Surgery
• Renal and Cardiology
• Acute Admission Unit and Short Stay
• Older Persons Medicine
• Mixed Orthopaedic Trauma (fragility fractures and polytrauma)

Interview date: 13th January 2026

Working for our organisation

• Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first‑class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state‑of‑the‑art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
• Free 24‑hours confidential counselling support
• On‑site Nursery
• On‑site cafes offering staff discounts
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The demand on our services is high, and we pride ourselves on providing quality care. If successful you will work alongside highly specialised Physiotherapists and Physiotherapy support workers to undertake a variety of tasks to support the delivery of Physiotherapy services to patients. The teams are driven, hardworking and seek opportunities to develop themselves and the service they provide, and you would have the opportunity to be part of this. As part of the Medical/Surgical Senior Rotation you would support the Respiratory weekend and On Call rota, further developing skills including acute decision making, emergency treatment planning and Respiratory care integrating medical and therapeutic knowledge to support care.

• To assess, prioritise and manage own caseload of patients, determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated, and maintain records as a legally autonomous practitioner. Patients may present with a range of complex/highly complex conditions, as specified in Appendix 1.
• Work will be undertaken without direct supervision. Clinical/professional supervision may take the form of formal training, clinical reasoning sessions and occasional direct observation of practice. Advice and support are always available.
• To provide clinical leadership within the speciality including educational, professional and managerial guidance.
• To have an active role in the planning, development, coordination, delivery and evaluation of the physiotherapy service provided to patients within and out‑reaching from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• To deputise for the Physiotherapy Operational Lead/Senior physiotherapy staff as required.
• To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Dedication, Integrity and Excellence and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work.
• To maintain a high standard of clinical care for patients under your management.
• To accept clinical responsibility for a defined caseload of patients and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. Rotation‑specific clinical duties are outlined in Appendix 1.
• To use communication tools (verbal and non‑verbal) and assess understanding of treatment proposals to gain valid informed consent. With support, to work within a legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
• Registration with the Health Professions Council (UK)

Experience

• Postgraduate experience as a Physiotherapist in a post with broad‑based rotational opportunities. Candidates should have experience in all core areas, however those offering less experience, but meeting all other criteria, will be considered on their merit.
• Student or physiotherapy assistant direct supervision
• Involvement in service improvement audit, research and understanding quality issues

Skills

• Ability to supervise other staff e.g. assistants/Physiotherapy Assistant Practitioners
• Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
• Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The Job Description, which includes a Person Specification, provides a full outline of responsibilities and requirements for this role. Please use your supporting statement to demonstrate how you meet the person specification.

Visa and Immigration

If you are wishing to apply for this role and would require sponsorship (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer), you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job.

Travelling to work

Staff parking is available onsite; however, this is limited during core working hours. We have more capacity in the evening and at weekends and can usually provide spaces during those hours.

We look to allocate these spaces fairly. Our Travel Office have a set of criteria that staff must meet in order to qualify. If you qualify for a space, you may be placed on a waiting list if we are at full capacity.

The NNUH is served by a number of public buses, and we offer generously discounted monthly passes with First Bus & Konect.

The Costessey Park and Ride runs regularly each day from 06:30 (from P&R) to 20:45 (from NNUH) and this service is free for NHS staff. There is a regular Thickthorn P&R service as well which is free. Applications to the Travel Office are required for this service. We also have a discounted service from the airport P&R if you purchase a bundle. Please see Konect website for further details.

The NNUH host multiple bicycle racks and a salary sacrifice scheme. We also benefit from a Beryl station onsite.

If you work at another Trust site, please discuss travel and parking arrangements at interview.

DBS

If this post involves working with children or adults the application form will ask for information regarding previous convictions as you will be required to undertake a Criminal Record and Barring Check known as a DBS check.

If you are a new employee or registering with the Staff Bank you will need to meet the cost of this unless your salary is less than point 9 of Afc

NHS Service

Should you be appointed to the post we will need to establish any previous NHS service via the ESR IAT and we will accept the submission of your application as your agreement to this.

UK Registration

You will need to have current UK professional registration where this is a requirement of the role.

Application

Following candidate feedback and to reduce our dependency on paper, all our communication with you regarding your application will be by email so could you please check your e‑mails (and Spam) regularly.

We value equality in our team and recruit from all sections of the community. We recognise there is a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and if you meet the minimum criteria detailed in the person specification and have a disability, you may wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme by indicating this in the relevant section on your application.

We look forward to receiving your application and if you do not hear within the next four weeks this will usually mean that you have not been short‑listed. However, if you wish to confirm this please contact the person indicated on the advert.

Flexibility

Whilst every effort will be made to recruit to the post as it is advertised, there may be occasions where we consider alternative working patterns, such as part time working, or contract types, such as secondments, depending on circumstances. Should you wish to work in a different working pattern to that stated in our advertisement, please indicate this in the supporting statement to your application.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Name Emma McCann
Job title AHP Physiotherapy Lead for Unplanned Care
Email address [e-mail]
Telephone number 01603 286286
Additional information: x6472