Deputy Team Lead Physiotherapist Trauma and Orthopaedics

Job overview

Are you a motivated Physiotherapist with a passion for Orthopaedics? Join our high performing Major Trauma and Orthopaedics Physiotherapy Team and take on a truly rewarding role where you’ll deliver specialist, life changing care to patients with complex trauma and orthopaedic needs. This is your chance to work at the heart of a fast paced, level 1 major trauma center and make a real difference every single day.

Cambridge University Hospitals is the designated Level 1 Major Trauma Centre for the East of England, forming the hub of a regional network that treats up to 800 people each year with serious, life‑changing injuries. Our integrated approach ensures patients receive seamless, high quality care at every stage, and our staff are central to achieving the best possible long‑term outcomes.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to manage your own caseload, develop advanced clinical skills, and work closely with a dedicated multidisciplinary team committed to excellence in trauma and orthopaedic rehabilitation.

As Deputy Team Lead, you’ll also contribute to service development, support audits and quality improvement projects, and provide mentorship to junior staff and students. It’s an ideal role for someone looking to grow professionally while making a meaningful impact in a supportive, forward thinking environment.

Main duties of the job

Deliver high-quality physiotherapy care to trauma and orthopaedics patients across multiple units.

Perform advanced specialist assessments and develop individualised treatment programmes.

Supervise and mentor junior staff and physiotherapy students, ensuring professional standards.

Participate in service development, clinical audits, and evidence-based practice projects.

Deputise for the Team Lead, managing day-to-day team operations and workload allocation

Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure coordinated patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

As there is a 12-week probationary period, successful candidates are expected to have the Right to Work for a period of at least 6 months from the proposed start date. Immigration and Right to Work status will be discussed with successful candidates at conditional offer. CUH will not offer sponsorship to candidates that have applied for a fee waiver.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: - applied for a Graduate visa - or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment - or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 27th September 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 14th October 2026

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

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.