Clinical Physiotherapist Specialist - Rheumatology | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Clinical Physiotherapist Specialist who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role within a dynamic Rheumatology Service, delivering highly specialist care while influencing service development and clinical excellence.

In this advanced clinical role, you will provide expert assessment, diagnosis, and management for patients living with highly complex rheumatological conditions. Working across specialist outpatient clinics, you’ll apply advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice to deliver outstanding patient-centered care.

This is more than a clinical role — it’s an opportunity to lead, innovate, and elevate the service.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

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• Independently assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with complex rheumatological presentations
  
• Managing highly specialised caseloads within outpatient rheumatology clinics
  
• Applying advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice to inform care plans
  
• Providing clinical leadership within the Rheumatology Service
  
• Contributing to service development, quality improvement, and innovation
  
• Supporting and mentoring colleagues to foster excellence in practice
  

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

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We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026