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Job summary

Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (part time applicants at a minimum of 0.5wte are supported. The post supports rostered respiratory weekend and Out of Hours working too)
Job ref
164-7727415
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
QMC and City Campus
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/03/2026 23:59

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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Specialist Physiotherapist: Acute In-Patients - rotational

Band 6

Job overview

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:

Adult Intensive Care

Surgical High Dependency

Health Care of the Older People, including a Dementia specialist unit and Admissions unit

Acute Medical Admissions

Regional Major Trauma Unit

Spinal Unit

Trauma and Orthopaedics

Regional Neurosciences Unit - Neurosurgery and Neurology

Oncology and Haematology

The rotation receives excellent feedback from our current Band 6’s such as:

'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:

 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main 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

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

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

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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
Desirable criteria
  • Have previously worked in the NHS
  • Previous Band 6 Experience

Communication and Relationship skills

Essential criteria
  • 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
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrate leadership ability.

Analytical and Judgement skills

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

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to organise and prioritise own and other’s workload.
  • Experience of effective delegation

Physical skills

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

Other requirements specific to the role

Essential criteria
  • 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tom Allison
Job title
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist: Acute medicine
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812 275835
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