# Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-specialist-physiotherapist/405839c4-faed-41c8-abb8-59dcda1ddfaf - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-specialist-physiotherapist/405839c4-faed-41c8-abb8-59dcda1ddfaf.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Norwich - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 49387.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (across 4 days) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-03T15:52:09.201Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Norwich_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community/Community-v8051350 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8051350?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nnuh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Clinical Lead Physiotherapist to provide professional leadership and clinical expertise within the Home First Therapy Team. The post holder will play a key role in the assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients, ensuring high standards of patient-centred care are delivered across the service. The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning and assessment skills, enabling them to make complex clinical decisions and develop effective rehabilitation and reablement plans tailored to individual patient needs. As a clinical leader, the post holder will support service development, provide supervision and mentorship to junior staff and students, and contribute to quality improvement initiatives. Strong communication, leadership, and organisational skills are essential, together with the ability to manage a varied caseload. The Home First Therapy Team provide a service covering Norwich & North Norfolk. The team is made up of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and an Assistant Practitioner. The successful candidate will hold a full drivers licence and a car owner. Interview date: 24th July 2026 ### Main duties of the job - To provide advanced physiotherapy assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation for patients with complex physical needs. - To lead and coordinate physiotherapy input within the team to ensure effective patient care. - To maintain effective communication with patients, carers, families, and members of the team. - To support staff development through teaching, mentoring, appraisal, and competency assessment. - To provide clinical leadership, supervision, and support to physiotherapists, therapy assistants, apprentices, and students. Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH PRIDE values of people focused, respect, dedication, integrity & Excellence. Pleas read the attached job description for further details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification. ## Job Details We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Clinical Lead Physiotherapist to provide professional leadership and clinical expertise within the Home First Therapy Team. The post holder will play a key role in the assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients, ensuring high standards of patient-centred care are delivered across the service. The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning and assessment skills, enabling them to make complex clinical decisions and develop effective rehabilitation and reablement plans tailored to individual patient needs. As a clinical leader, the post holder will support service development, provide supervision and mentorship to junior staff and students, and contribute to quality improvement initiatives. Strong communication, leadership, and organisational skills are essential, together with the ability to manage a varied caseload. The Home First Therapy Team provide a service covering Norwich & North Norfolk. The team is made up of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and an Assistant Practitioner. The successful candidate will hold a full drivers licence and a car owner. Interview date: 24th July 2026 ## Job Description To provide advanced physiotherapy assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation for patients with complex physical needs. To lead and coordinate physiotherapy input within the team to ensure effective patient care. To maintain effective communication with patients, carers, families, and members of the team. To support staff development through teaching, mentoring, appraisal, and competency assessment. To provide clinical leadership, supervision, and support to physiotherapists, therapy assistants, apprentices, and students. Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post. ## Responsibilities To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH PRIDE values of people focused, respect, dedication, integrity & Excellence. Pleas read the attached job description for further details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive post-qualification experience including significant experience at senior level in areas relevant to the clinical specialty. - Involvement in service improvement, audit, research and understanding quality issues - Contributing to clinical education/development of less experienced staff, students or assistants ### Qualifications **Essential** - Diploma/Degree in physiotherapy - Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (UK) ### Attitude & Aptitude **Essential** - Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence ## Documents - [useful links (pdf, 184.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2809) - [staff benefits (pdf, 674.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=901) - [job description (pdf, 495.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10426748) - [our nnuh lgbt+ staff network (pdf, 675.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2367) - [our nnuh women's staff network (pdf, 103.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2473) - [our nnuh together staff network (pdf, 370.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2166) - [our nnuh diverse ability staff network (pdf, 607.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2424) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.