Physiotherapist - ESEOC | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization in Colchester is seeking a passionate physiotherapist to join their Orthopaedic physiotherapy team. This role involves managing a caseload, gaining experience in a high-volume setting, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Successful candidates will benefit from extensive support, training opportunities, and a generous benefits package. Applicants must be flexible with shifts and committed to patient care.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Access to NHS discounts

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in Orthopaedic physiotherapy within an acute setting is preferred.
• Ability to manage a caseload of patients.

Responsibilities

• Gain experience in Orthopaedic physiotherapy.
• Contribute to the physiotherapy pathways.
• Manage a personal caseload of patients.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team.

Job description

Overview

Essex and Suffolk Elective Orthopaedic Centre (ESEOC), situated in the Dame Clare Marx Building opened at the end of 2024. This cutting-edge facility specializes in elective Orthopaedic surgery and Orthopaedic day cases. With eight laminar flow theatres, three wards, recovery facilities, and comprehensive support services, ESEOC is poised to become one of the largest centres of its kind in Europe. The Centre is committed to delivering high-volume, low-complexity cases locally, fostering excellence, and contributing to education, training, and research in the field.

Role

We are looking for a physiotherapist to join the new service and work as part of our Orthopaedic physiotherapy team. We provide a 7 day service, with extended hours 8:00 - 20:00 6 days a week. Applicants must be able to commit to a varied shift pattern of either a mixture of early and late shifts or predominately long days.

Responsibilities

• To gain experience and develop skills and knowledge in Orthopaedic physiotherapy within the acute setting
• Understanding an contributing to the orthopaedic physiotherapy pathways.
• To manage own caseload of patients, seeking advice and problem solving from senior staff when required.
• To link in with the MDT in ESEOC to contribute to the care of elective patients

About ESNEFT

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.

Commitment to 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 that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

Digital transformation

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.

Apply

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 Friday 3 Oct 2025