Specialist Physiotherapist: Acute In-Patients - rotational

Specialist Physiotherapist: Acute In-Patients - rotational

The closing date is 02 March 2026

Do you want to be a senior Physiotherapist broadening your acute in-patient clinical skills across a variety of specialities? Why not consider a post at NUH?

We offer a variety of in-patient acute rotations across the following areas:

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• Adult Intensive Care
  
• Surgical High Dependency
  
• Health Care of the Older People, including a Dementia specialist unit and Admissions unit
  
• Acute Medical Admissions
  
• Spinal Unit
  
• Trauma and Orthopaedics
  
• Regional Neurosciences Unit – Neurosurgery and Neurology
  
• Oncology and Haematology
  

'The rotation offers a highly valuable experience to develop clinical skills with exposure to complex patients'

'Encouragement was given to take time for different parts of the role e.g. service development, training, teaching others, own wellbeing.'

We have available 2 posts:

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• 1.0wte (37.5hrs) permanent (part time at a minimum of 0.5wte will be welcomed too).
  
• 1.0wte (37.5hrs) fixed term contract or secondment until 30/09/2026 (part time at a minimum of 0.5wte will be welcomed too).
  

As an Acute Trust, you will be required to work regular weekends (currently, for full time staff this is around 1 in 4 weekends - one day only). Respiratory on call duties will be expected, and adequate training to support you with this prior to going on the rota will be provided.

Main duties of the job

NUH is an exciting place to work and will be able to offer you training opportunities (both clinical and leadership courses that may be internal and/or external to NUH), the experience of working with highly skilled staff and expose you to the world of research and the potential to work with clinical academics to enhance evidence based care.

NUH is a large Acute Teaching Hospital and this post will allow you to work in many specialist areas with a huge variety of patients. Staff will be responsible for a diverse and complex clinical case load. You will be expected to work collaboratively across the MDT with a wide range of Health Care Professionals.

You will have excellent communication and team working skills. You will have a flexible approach and the ability to manage your own time and workload in what is a fast paced working environment. The post has a requirement that you manage and support Band 5's, Support Staff and Students on Clinical Placement allowing you to develop your leadership, managerial and teaching skills. You will need to lead the Team in the absence of the Band 7.

There is a requirement that you participate in weekend and emergency overnight on-call duties. Previous Respiratory on-call experience is essential.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

The successful applicant will demonstrate excellent core physiotherapy skills and a willingness to learn and develop further, both clinically and professionally. You will be working as part of multidisciplinary teams who will give support and training for you to develop in this role to reach your full potential. You will demonstrate an ability to work autonomously and provide support to less experienced members of the team, including students and support workers. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to work flexibly to support the needs of the service

For further details contact person named within the advert

Training & Qualifications

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• BSc honours (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy.
  
• Full Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) registration
  
• Evidence of post-graduate training in speciality.
  
• First line management course.
  
• Clinical Educators Course.
  

Experience

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• Broad based junior rotational experience with an acute inpatient focus
  
• Experience in evaluation of practice. Appraisal of performance
  
• Possession of specific knowledge to relevant area
  
• Have previously worked in the NHS
  
• Previous Band 6 Experience
  

Communication and Relationship skills

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• Ability to communicate complex information both verbally and in writing
  
• Ability to identify training opportunities and motivate, train and teach
  
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships to support team working with the clinical and wider multidisciplinary teams
  
• Demonstrate leadership ability.
  

Analytical and Judgement skills

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• Ability to assess, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options.
  
• Experience of performance management.
  

Planning and organisation skills

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• Ability to organise and prioritise own and other's workload.
  
• Experience of effective delegation
  

Physical skills

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• Evidence of manual therapy skills.
  
• Demonstrate IT literacy
  
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities.
  

Other requirements specific to the role

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• Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust
  
• Undertake out of hours duties (weekends, on calls and Bank Holidays) as required in Adult Respiratory
  
• Maintain competence in respiratory care
  

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.

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