About the Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated physiotherapist to build on their physiotherapy skills through our Acute Band 6 Rotation for a 1‑year fixed term period. Each 6‑month rotation is led by strong and supportive senior colleagues with a wealth of experience. You will be a key member of our friendly integrated therapy team and provide a skilled and responsive therapy service.
Qualifications & Experience
We are looking for candidates with rotational band 5 experience in a hospital‑based environment, with strong communication and teamwork skills. You also need to be self‑motivated, adaptable and dynamic. Flexible working times may be required on some rotations, including participation in on‑call and weekend rotas.
Training and Development
We are committed to your training and development of acute specialist skills and clinical expertise and will provide opportunities to participate in training, service development, audit and clinical supervision.
Rotations
* Medical/surgical: Gain specialist experience in respiratory management of a wide variety of patients, develop skills in ITU and critical care and have the opportunity to treat paediatrics and respiratory out‑patients.
* Orthopaedics: Assess and treat many orthopaedic conditions, including patients repatriated from the major trauma centre. Gain familiarity with specialist orthotic equipment; opportunities exist to treat paediatric orthopaedics and manage patients on our discharge‑ready ward.
* Acute Medical Unit: Develop assessment and decision‑making skills in our short‑stay admission unit and gain experience in cardiology and front‑door services.
* Frailty team: Work in our frailty unit and rapid access clinics, developing close links with the rapid response team and other community services.
* Stroke unit: Work alongside a specialist neuro team to assess and rehabilitate patients transferred from the local HSAU, developing specialist neuro knowledge and handling skills.
* Acute older adult wards: Develop risk‑assessment and management skills for complex patients, including those with dementia, working closely with the MDT and families.
Responsibilities
* Perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical conditions.
* Provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualized treatment programme.
* Hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working without direct supervision.
* Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
* Supervise, educate and assess the performance of physiotherapy students as appropriate.
* Undertake evidence‑based audit projects to develop and enhance personal and team’s clinical practice within each rotation.
Please note that this vacancy may close early due to the number of applications we receive.
This advert closes on Monday 27 Apr 2026.
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