About the Organisation:
As Scotland’s smallest health board, NHS Orkney is driven by a bold vision: looking after our community and providing excellent care. Whether you’re starting your NHS journey or bringing expertise from another NHS employer, your skills will make a real difference to the health and lives of Orkney’s 22,000 residents.
Our state-of-the-art healthcare facility, The Balfour, opened in 2019 and is home to modern inpatient wards, an emergency department, outpatient clinics, diagnostics, GP practices, and the Scottish Ambulance Service. Collaboration thrives here, ensuring exceptional care for every patient. Beyond our main facility, we’re investing in our outer isles, enhancing services, and transforming patient care across our islands.
About Orkney:
Orkney itself is nothing short of magical. With over 70 islands (20 inhabited), this breathtaking destination offers stunning landscapes, unique wildlife, and vibrant cultural and sporting activities. Recognised as one of the UK’s best places to live, Orkney promises a lifestyle like no other.
The Position:
We are seeking to recruit a Clinical Lead Physiotherapist for Orkney Health and Care Partnership, based in our new Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall. If you are interested in leading our dynamic and committed Physiotherapy teams covering all Adult Services, we would be delighted to hear from you.
The successful applicant will provide clinical leadership to our physiotherapy teams that provide highly specialist physiotherapy care across many settings as required within the hospital, community, primary care and in reach to other settings.
The Candidate:
We are looking for a forward-thinking Physiotherapist with highly developed leadership and interpersonal skills to join our team, also bringing your own clinical expertise to the post. There will be the potential to develop your own clinical area of expertise to Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner level and work with the other Physiotherapy services where you will be able to help shape and support the evolution of Physiotherapy practice.
We encourage innovation and the use of technology to develop services across our remote and rural landscape. The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner roughly a 40/60 split between a clinical case load and management responsibilities. In a small community it helps to be flexible and have good generalist skills
Location, Working Pattern and Contract Duration:
This post will be based at The Balfour
The successful candidate will work: Full Time 37 hours per week
This post is Permanent
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NHS Orkney.
Benefits and Salary:
Did you know NHS Scotland salaries are higher than those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
The salary for this post is on a Band 7 £50,861 - £59,159 and if residing on Orkney, you’ll also receive a Distant Islands Allowance of £1,654 pro rata per year, adding extra value to your rewarding career with us.
NHS Orkney also offers an attractive pension scheme, wide range of work life balance policies, employee assistance programme and various discounts to both local and national retailers.
Further Information:
If you share our vision and are ready to be part of Team Orkney, we’d love to hear from you. Your rewarding career starts here!
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during your application. If there are additional requirements you would like to request, please contact ork.recruitment@nhs.scot
To find out more about this opportunity please contact Ruth Lea, Adult Lead AHP by email: ruth.lea@nhs.scot
This post is subject to a PVG Scheme Record check
Interview Date: Week commencing 29th of September 2025