# Highly Specialised Physiotherapist Specialist Medicine > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialised-physiotherapist-specialist-medicine/5a334588-9b2f-4f53-b664-9c168328b382 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialised-physiotherapist-specialist-medicine/5a334588-9b2f-4f53-b664-9c168328b382.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Location:** St Bartholomew's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc - **Contract type:** 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.) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-28T12:11:01.528Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Physiotherapy/Physiotherapy-v8262541 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8262541?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - BSc Physiotherapy - HCPC Registration **Desirable** - Masters’ modules relevant to specialist area - Leadership Course - Membership of Specialist Interest Group ### Experience/Knowledge **Essential** - Extensive experience delivering acute rehabilitation for patients acute and chronic medical conditions such as renal, liver and heart failure, frailty and stroke/neurological conditions. - Awareness of local and national policies relating to delivery of acute rehabilitation services including dosage of rehab interventions - In-depth understanding of clinical governance - Understanding of the opportunities and challenges of working within a culturally diverse environment - Experienced in presenting and teaching skills to a variety of professionals - Experienced in delivering clinical education to range of staff groups of varying knowledge - Experience of leading a quality improvement/clinical effectiveness work based project/ Audit - Experience of implementing people management policies including sickness absence and performance - Experience of investigating and reporting on incidents and complaints **Desirable** - Simulation Training Skills - Experience in research - Experience of managing a small team in a clinically defined area ## Documents - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 634.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10576524) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## 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.