Physiotherapy Clinical Specialist - Acute Team

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic part time Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist to join our Acute Physiotherapy Team, working predominantly within the Emergency Department (ED) to cover maternity leave up until a maximum of July 2027.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within a fast-paced and unpredictable environment. You will provide advanced assessment, clinical reasoning, and specialist physiotherapy interventions to patients presenting with a wide range of acute and complex conditions.

This role is ideal for a motivated physiotherapist with strong acute experience, excellent decision-making skills, and a passion for developing innovative services within urgent and emergency care.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver advanced assessment and treatment for patients in ED and acute settings
• Support rapid assessment, discharge planning, and admission avoidance
• Manage a complex caseload as an autonomous practitioner
• Work closely within the MDT to ensure safe, effective patient care
• Provide specialist advice, teaching, and supervision to staff and students
• Lead and contribute to service improvement projects
• Work as part of the respiratory on call service
• Cover weekends as part of the Medical team service pro-rata

Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide highly specialised assessment and treatment for patients with complex needs.
• Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload and organise this efficiently with respect to clinical priorities and time management, ensuring a high standard of care for patients under your own and junior staff’s management.
• Demonstrate advanced analytical, investigative, and manual therapy skills to assess, diagnose, and treat patients with acute, chronic, and highly complex presentations.
• Maintain accurate, comprehensive patient records in line with professional and Trust standards.
• Assess and manage clinical risk within your own patient caseload, ensuring safe, evidence-based practice always.
• Provide both spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to patients, relatives, carers, and other professionals to promote understanding of physiotherapy aims and ensure a consistent approach to care.
• Liaise with Consultants and other members of the multi-disciplinary team to represent physiotherapy at meetings to ensure coordinated, evidence-based interventions.
• Work as part of the physiotherapy team providing weekend service as required, adhering to guidance.
• Communicate effectively across language and cultural barriers and produce complex patient-related documentation as needed.

For more information please see the attached job description and person specification.