Specialist Senior Physiotherapist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in North Shields is seeking a Band 7 Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist to provide expert assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for musculoskeletal conditions. The role involves delivering physiotherapy, supporting First Contact Practitioner clinics, and supervising junior staff. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and excellent communication skills. This position offers the opportunity to work in a supportive environment focused on innovation and quality in patient care.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in musculoskeletal physiotherapy.
• Completion of the First Contact Practitioner (Musculoskeletal) Roadmap is desirable.
• Experience in student education, research, and audit.

Responsibilities

• Deliver physiotherapy treatment for a complex caseload.
• Provide highly specialised assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Support staff and students in clinical education and supervision.

Skills

Communication skills

Supervision and training

Clinical reasoning

Education

Postgraduate training

Evidence of continuous professional development

Job description

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 7 Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapist to work in NTIMS (North Tyneside Intermediate Musculoskeletal Service) and supporting our First Contact Musculoskeletal team. Ideal for enthusiastic, experienced, candidate with significant experience in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. Completion of the First Contact Practitioner (Musculoskeletal) Roadmap would be desirable although is not essential.

Please note: The vacancy may be closed before the closing date if there are a high number of applicants. All interviews will be face to face.

Successful applicants will provide musculoskeletal physiotherapy in NTIMS in addition to supporting First Contact Practitioner clinic provision within North Tyneside. The post holder will provide expert assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with musculoskeletal conditions who have self-referred or who have been referred by primary or secondary care. The post holder will be expected to provide telephone consultations.

NTIMS provides physiotherapy care across North Tyneside alongside primary care based clinics based in local GP practices and Health Centres in between. The post will be based at North Tyneside General Hospital but there may be a requirement to work at other sites, according to service needs.

The successful applicant must demonstrate excellent communication skills with MDT and peers. Applicants should have experience in supervision, education and training of more junior staff and be involved in student education, research and audit. The post holder will be expected to provide clinical supervision to colleagues..

Applicants must provide evidence of continuous professional development and post graduate training. The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with the senior leadership team in further service development.

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! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
• To deliver Physiotherapy treatment for a complex caseload within a specialist field.
• To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the speciality area.
• To provide specialist advice to families, carers, other health and social care professionals and/or education services
• To contribute to planning, development and auditing of the Physiotherapy service within the specialist area.
• To supervise qualified & unqualified staff within the specialist team.
• 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 other (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement. (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.




This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Jul 2025