Senior Physiotherapist

Freeman Hospital; Carthage (MO); On-site; USD 49,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Physiotherapist to join the Integrated Mobile Therapy Team (IMTT) delivering proactive short-term rehabilitation in 46 residential and nursing homes. You will assess, plan and oversee rehabilitation, supporting patients to regain skills and return home with multidisciplinary support.

You will work autonomously within an MDT, manage equipment and adaptations, and ensure high-quality notes and communication with partners.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent Diploma in Physiotherapy.
• HCPC registration.
• Current UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-standard physiotherapy assessments and treatments for older adults in a care setting.
• Develop individual rehabilitation plans and work with activity officers to implement programmes.
• Assess return-to-home potential and facilitate discharges from care settings.
• Supply equipment or advice for equipment at client homes and arrange minor adaptations where needed.
• Maintain professional notes, communicate with other professions, and work within OT standards.

Skills

IT skills

Wheelchair handling

Moving and handling

Communication skills

Clinical assessment

MDT collaboration

Autonomy

Education

Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy

HCPC registration

UK driving licence

Job description

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

Employer heading

Senior Physiotherapist

Band 6

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

We're looking for a Physiotherapist to join our friendly, supportive team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a forward-thinking environment where you can make a real difference to people’s lives.

Working as part of a newly established multi-disciplinary, Integrated Mobile Therapy Team (IMTT), you will be working with people who are living in short term placements in any of our 46 residential and nursing homes, to oversee the delivery of proactive short term rehabilitation support with the aim of helping people return home as soon as possible.

We recognize people leaving hospital or unwell at home can have illness acuity and complexity that requires robust interdisciplinary support. We know that without rehabilitative support, a proportion of those people who, because they lose confidence, skills and functional ability, may not be able to return or remain at home.

• Interview Date Thursday 03 September 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

You’ll work autonomously and as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, which includes occupational therapists, physiotherapists and physical activity officers.

Your role will include carrying out comprehensive assessments within the care setting, and developing individual rehabilitation plans for the client. Working closely with the activity officers to implement the rehabilitation programme

You will be required to assess the possibility for the client to return to their permanent place of residence and provide facilitated discharges from the care setting.

You will be responsible for providing equipment within their own homes or providing advice on suitable equipment required in the care setting should the client be unable to return home. You will also be responsible for providing minor adaptations within the property and leasing with the Local Authority team regarding major adaptations.

You will ensure that you work within the OT professional standards within all areas of your work including appropriate note keeping, communication with other professions and organisations.

You will be working collaboratively with the social services. The IMTT will be managed by the OT Manager at the ASCP Front of House MDT, but all professional support, training, CPD and supervision will be provided by the Community Resource and Rehabilitation Team staff.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Our team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Physical Activity Officers will deliver a multi-disciplined, responsive service, focused on “Home First” principles that helps people regain skills and confidence so that they can return home, as we move towards an enhanced neighbourhood health model.

This front facing position offers the opportunity to make a real impact at the first point of contact, supporting strengths-based approaches and ensuring timely, appropriate care pathways for adults across a wide range of presentations, including falls, frailty, long-term conditions and hospital discharges.

• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy assessment, treatment and advice to a complex patient group of older people and intermediate care client group, including orthopaedics
• To consolidate and build on skills and academic knowledge gained during the first two years post graduation

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent Diploma in Physiotherapy
• HCPC registration
• Current UK driving licence

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Comprehensive post registration experience as a junior Physiotherapist in NHS
• Community working and lone working experience
• Working as part of an MDT
• Advanced knowledge of a range of medical conditions and conditions associated with older people and their impact on functional abilities
• Sound knowledge of physio process
• Critical decision making
• Knowledge and experience of applying rehabilitation/Reablement models of intervention
• Working with carers; instruction, advice, support
• Risk assessment and management experience
• Commitment to client centred practice for older people
• Delegation to Support Staff

Desirable criteria

• Awareness of challenges associated with community working
• Knowledge of best practice related to older people/intermediate care
• Experience of musculoskeletal orthopaedics

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• IT skills
• Able to meet the physical demands of the post including wheelchairs, hoists, therapeutic moving and handling of patients
• Effective written and oral communication skills

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e‑mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

• JD & PS (PDF, 280.4KB)
• Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
• Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Steve McLaren
Job title Advanced Physiotherapist
Email address [e-mail]
Telephone number 0191 2826627
Additional information
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