Specialist Physiotherapist (Rotational) West Network

The closing date is 18 March 2026.

We are pleased to offer an exciting internal opportunity for a motivated Physiotherapist to join our Band 6 Rotational Physiotherapy Team. This post is ideal for experienced clinicians or Band 5 physiotherapists ready to step up and develop their clinical leadership skills across a range of settings.

This Band 6 rotational post provides the chance to build advanced skills while working across a range of specialty areas. Each rotation offers the opportunity to consolidate clinical reasoning, develop autonomy, and contribute to service improvement.

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• Managing a varied and sometimes complex caseload with increasing independence
  
• Providing specialist assessment and treatment
  
• Supporting Band 5s, assistants, and students through supervision and teaching
  
• Contributing to service development and quality improvement projects
  
• Participating in MDT working and supporting effective patient flow
  
• Engaging in CPD, in‑service training, and supervision structures
  

For an informal discussion please contact Fiona Wright, Deputy Head of Physiotherapy, 01946 523636.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

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• Being a clinically led organisation
  
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
  
• A positive patient experience every time
  
• A great place to work
  
• Managing our money well
  

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work. Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.

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• Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £28.00. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.
  
• Enhanced Check: £49.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £56.00. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.
  

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• 27‑day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
  
• NHS Discounts*
  
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
  
• Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work‑related problems
  

*Subject to eligibility

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information. If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

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• Evidence of an active part in training for personal and professional development
  
• Able to undertake on‑call duties and community rotations
  
• Ability to travel across sites, independently
  
• Organised
  
• Flexible
  
• Reliable
  
• Friendly and approachable
  
• Evidence of actively taking part in training of others
  

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• Good Knowledge of Evidence Based Clinical Practice
  
• Good Knowledge of Continuing Evidence of Professional Development/Lifelong Learning
  
• Professional code of conduct
  
• Complaints procedure
  
• Equality issues
  
• Confidentiality
  
• Key NHS drivers for change and implications for physiotherapy services
  
• Portfolio of evidence of post‑graduate learning e.g. ALERT, neurology, cardio‑respiratory etc.
  
• Consolidation and development of undergraduate training through attendance at in‑service training and other CPD opportunities
  
• Working independently on call
  
• Delegation and caseload prioritisation
  
• Supervising e.g. students, newly qualified staff or technical instructors
  
• Working to full band 5 outline
  
• Involvement in service development through clinical audit, use of outcome measures etc.
  
• Deputising for colleagues
  
• Rotations in a broad range of core areas, e.g. cardio‑respiratory, ITU, elderly rehabilitation, acute medicine, orthopaedics, MSK, neurology and community rehabilitation
  
• Equality legislation and best practice.
  
• Responsibility for an area of work, e.g. health & safety, in‑service training
  
• Work within a community setting
  

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• CSP recognised Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
  
• HPC registered
  
• Member of The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
  
• Clinical supervision / mentoring certificate or equivalent.
  

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• Able to work as a member of a team, using initiative appropriately.
  
• Able to prioritise and manage competing demands, appropriately delegating work.
  
• Able to make sound decisions based on clinical reasoning skills, without continued recourse to colleagues.
  
• Developing leadership skills.
  
• Able to communicate complex information.
  
• Able to motivate others.
  
• Able to give feedback to students.
  
• Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care.
  

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust