Senior Physiotherapist (Specialist Medicine Team Leader)

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Band 7 team lead role within the Physiotherapy Medical team. This exciting development opportunity is suitable for a Senior physiotherapist keen to advance their clinical, leadership and managerial skills with the full support of management. We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and highly motivated individual to join our department.

We offer you:

• Strong peer support
• Positive commitment to CPD and post graduate education
• Development of your supervisory, teaching and management skills
• Service development opportunities.

You will be working alongside an established B7 team lead. The team has highly skilled Physiotherapists and Physiotherapy assistant staff. They are a friendly team and dedicated towards the delivery of an excellent service for all our users.

You will be required to partake in our on-call and weekend service.

Main duties of the job

In General Medicine, you will:

Manage patients with a wide variety of conditions e.g. respiratory, neurological and musculoskeletal; Have a varied caseload of patients ranging from General Medical to subspecialty patients such as Respiratory, Cardiology, Hepatology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Renal and Oncology, utilising the skills of advanced assessment and discharge planning.

As a physiotherapy specialist you will have responsibilities that would include:

• Planning, delivery and evaluation of the Medical physiotherapy service
• Operational management of the team
• Development and supervision of staff and students

To provide highly specialised respiratory physiotherapy and rehabilitation to the specialist medical wards, including oncology, infectious diseases, haemotology, hepatology, renal, gastroenterology, cardiology, endocrinology and respiratory diseases, including the respiratory support unit.

To support the members of the medical team to deliver the highest

possible standard of service.

To undertake a team leader role in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Physiotherapy Service provided to medical patients throughout Addenbrooke’s hospital on a day-to-day basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

All appointments with a start date on or after 1 October 2026 will be subject to a 12-week probationary period. This provides a structured and supportive period to help you settle into your role, with regular reviews and feedback.

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.

Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.

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

This vacancy will close at midnight on 8th October 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 19th 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.