Advanced Physiotherapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and innovative Band 7 Physiotherapist to work on a permanent basis within the Neurosciences team. This new role will be split across inpatients and outpatients and will have Team Lead responsibilities.

The Neuro Outpatients service is based at the Freeman and Cresta clinic. You will lead on delivering a highly specialist neuro physiotherapy service to a varying outpatient caseload. You will be responsible for the overall delivery, improvement and development of this service.

You will work as part of a specialist multi-disciplinary team that treats a variety of elective and emergency brain and spinal cord injuries. This is a varied and complex caseload and you will be expected to be a key leader supporting the overall management of these patients. The successful candidate will need to have extensive acute neurosurgical clinical experience to competently manage this patient group.

• Interview Date:  11th July 2025
• 30 hours and 45 minutes/ week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy care to a highly complex patient group in the specialty, performing advanced assessments, developing tailored rehabilitation programmes and utilising specialised techniques.
• To provide physiotherapy input for patients as in-patients, and in outpatient clinics.
• To provide an advisory service to patients, their families, physiotherapists, consultants, nursing staff and other health care professionals in tertiary and secondary care, both locally and regionally.
• To develop and provide specialist education and training to nursing, medical and physiotherapy staff and any other members of the MDT to optimise each patient’s outcome and invest in the learning and development of people.
• To be responsible for own continued professional development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As this is a new post, it is an excellent opportunity to support the physiotherapy teams with a varying and complex clinical caseload as part of the Regional Neuroscience Centre.  There are existing peer support networks within the wider neurosciences team and the post-holder will be fully supported to integrate into these established physiotherapy teams and roles.  Neuro-outpatients and spinal inpatients are both  evolving services and the post-holder will be expected to lead in service improvement; it is therefore expected that the post-holder will have real-life experience of service improvement and leadership in action.

Job purpose

• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy care to a highly complex patient group.
• The role will include working across inpatient wards, there may also be a requirement to work within an outpatient setting.
• Participate in the physiotherapy department's respiratory on call rota following completion of an appropriate induction programme.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.