Specialist Physiotherapist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Specialist Physiotherapist for its inpatient Care of the Elderly team at North Tyneside General Hospital on a fixed-term basis. The role is Band 6 and involves delivering high-quality, patient-centred rehabilitation and discharge planning for older adults across multiple wards.

The post requires evidence of Band 5 or higher experience in Orthopaedics/MSK, Neurology/Elderly care and Respiratory, with HCPC registration and CSP

Qualifications

• Minimum Band 5 Physiotherapist or higher in core areas of practice (Orthopaedics/MSK, Neurology/Elderly care, Respiratory)
• Experience working in inpatient or acute settings is desirable
• Physiotherapist registered with HCPC and CSP member

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload.
• Work as part of the physiotherapy team under supervision of senior staff.
• Demonstrate compassionate, inclusive leadership and promote team learning and quality improvement.
• Contribute to discharge planning and rehabilitation for older adults across wards.

Skills

Orthopaedics/MSK

Neurology/Elderly care

Respiratory

Band 5 experience

Education

BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy

HCPC Registered Physiotherapist

CPD evidence

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy member

University student training qualification

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Physiotherapist

The closing date is 18 November 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Physiotherapist to join our inpatient Care of the Elderly team at North Tyneside General Hospital on a fixed-term basis. This static Band 6 role offers the opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, patient-centred rehabilitation and discharge planning for older adults across a number of wards.

As a minimum, applicants must be able to demonstrate experience at Band 5 Physiotherapist or higher in the core areas of practice: Orthopaedics/MSK, Neurology/Elderly care, and Respiratory.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

All interviews will be held face to face.

Main duties of the job

This will be a static post and role in elderly care outpatient setting.

• To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical caseload.
• To work as part of the physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of more experienced highly specialist senior physiotherapy staff.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Job responsibilities

• Candidates should have completed their post graduate core rotations.
• Competent to assess and treat an independent caseload
• Awareness of relevant Department of Health initiatives and National Service Frameworks relating to clinical guidelines
• To consolidate post graduate skills and enhance more specialist skills and knowledge developing towards Specialist Senior Physiotherapist.

For further details please see attached job description and person specification.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Professional Registration

• BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent experience and/or qualification
• Registered Physiotherapist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Evidence of continued professional development through self directed learning, in-service training record and attendance at relevant short post graduate courses.
• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Student training qualification provided by University

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearpro rata per annum