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Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
BSc Physiotherapy
- Qualifications
HCPC Registration
- Experience/Knowledge
Extensive experience delivering acute rehabilitation for patients acute and chronic medical conditions such as renal, liver and heart failure, frailty and stroke/neurological conditions.
- Experience/Knowledge
Awareness of local and national policies relating to delivery of acute rehabilitation services including dosage of rehab interventions
- Experience/Knowledge
In-depth understanding of clinical governance
- Experience/Knowledge
Understanding of the opportunities and challenges of working within a culturally diverse environment
- Experience/Knowledge
Experienced in presenting and teaching skills to a variety of professionals
- Experience/Knowledge
Experienced in delivering clinical education to range of staff groups of varying knowledge
- Experience/Knowledge
Experience of leading a quality improvement/clinical effectiveness work based project/ Audit
- Experience/Knowledge
Experience of implementing people management policies including sickness absence and performance
- Experience/Knowledge
Experience of investigating and reporting on incidents and complaints
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Masters’ modules relevant to specialist area
- Qualifications
Leadership Course
- Qualifications
Membership of Specialist Interest Group
- Experience/Knowledge
Simulation Training Skills
- Experience/Knowledge
Experience in research
- Experience/Knowledge
Experience of managing a small team in a clinically defined area
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to Join Specialist Medicine Therapy team as a highly specialist rehabilitation physiotherapist (Band 7) at the Royal London Hospital.
It is a 6-month fixed term post starting 1st October 2026 to 31st March 2027. It's an exciting opportunity for any experienced Band 6 or Band 7 to work within Specialist Medicine team and gain some experience.
Barts Health is a high performing group of NHS hospitals that is renowned for excellence and innovation, providing equitable, safe and compassionate care to our patient in East London and beyond.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual that is passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative care to patients living with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions. The team covers the Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary, Renal wards and HDU, Endocrinology & Haematology, Respiratory and Cardiology wards including all neurological and stroke outliers. The Respiratory ward has two 4 bedded enhanced care bays that cares for patients on NIV, heated high flow therapy and those with altered airways. Physiotherapists play a lead role in overseeing the enhanced respiratory care service alongside a dynamic team of respiratory consultants, trainees and nurses.
Successful candidates will be experienced in delivering quality improvement projects and will lead on service development under the guidance of the clinical leads.
Main duties of the job
- To work in a diverse multicultural environment in a leadership role within the specialist medicine team to deliver high quality, patient focussed care o To take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients living with long term conditions with complex rehabilitation needs across the acute medical wards including Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary, Renal, Endocrinology & Haematology, Respiratory and Cardiology o To take a lead role in the advances assessment and treatment of outlying neurological and stroke patients on the medical wards including leading on facilitating their transition closer to home o To support with clinical leads in service development leading on innovation and quality improvement in line with local and national healthcare priorities o To be responsible for the induction, supervision, learning and development of rotational staff within the team. o To be jointly responsible with clinical leads for overseeing clinical governance within the team including but not limited to managing clinical risk, staff development, and rota management. o To support the overnight respiratory on-call services
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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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.
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This advert is for Highly Specialised Physiotherapist Specialist Medicine with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc. The contract type is 6 months (Although this position is a 6 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 6 months.). The application deadline is 09 Sep 2026.
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