Senior Rotational Physiotherapist

Job summary

Are you a Band 6 who wants to work in more specialised areas? Or an experienced Band 5 Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career? Please note this is an advert for a fixed term post to cover maternity leave.

We offer highly specialist 9-month rotations across three sites (Wakefield, Dewsbury & Pontefract) where you can enjoy many different clinical settings and develop a variety of skills.

• Spinal Injuries at Yorkshires Regional centre
• Burns Centre adult & children including critical care
• Respiratory 20 bedded Critical Care Unit, surgical HDU, acute respiratory and surgical wards
• A&E, Acute Medical Assessment and Frailty Units to stop admission into hospital
• Stroke Hyper acute stroke unit and rehab
• Neurology Rehab varying conditions with longer term rehabilitation
• Medical including cardiology, gastroenterology and geriatrics
• Trauma & Orthopaedics including major trauma, fractured neck of femur and day case

If you are highly motivated, enjoy a challenge and are hard working then this job at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust is the job for you. We are a supportive and forward thinking inpatient therapy service, just waiting for you to join us!

The post holder will provide peer support, supervision to other members of the team, be responsible for the technical instructors and leadership opportunities where appropriate in the clinical setting, overseeing, planning and implementing team objectives with senior support.

Main duties of the job

• To provide advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological symptoms associated with in-patient conditions in a broad variety of clinical settings, including Stroke, Neurology, Medical/Elderly, Spinal Injuries, Acute medical Assessment, Critical Care, Respiratory & Burns. The senior clinician will provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individual treatment programme for this patient.

• To provide leadership and support to junior colleagues in the assessment and management of Inpatient clinical conditions.

• To provide peer support, supervision and second opinions to members of the relevant Inpatient teams.

• Participate in seven day service for the wards (select rotations) helping to facilitate discharges and achieve best practice tariffs. Participate in the respiratory (on call) rota.

• To be responsible for technical instructors on duty.

• To provide clinical education of physiotherapy students on placement.

• To undertake a management role where appropriate in the clinical setting, where overseeing, planning and implementing objectives for juniors and assistants as necessary.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Details

• Date posted: 03 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 10 months
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 001423
• Job locations: Trustwide UK, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Qualifications

• Graduate Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
• Registered with the HPC
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent and relevant postgraduate courses.
• Portfolio evidence of information learning.

Experience

• Comprehensive experience at Band 5 level in a rotational post within the NHS, providing a broad range of experience in core and specialist rotations.
• Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multidisciplinary team.
• Recent evidence of On-call and respiratory experience
• Involvement in audit, research and an understanding quality issues.
• Contributing to clinical education of students and training other staff
• Be the main clinical educator of students and training other staff whilst with the team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.
• Supervision of other staff, e.g. assistants, technical instructors.
• Remain updated with professional practice and new research.
• Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession.
• Ability to present information, written and orally in a clear and logical manner.
• Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit.
• Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies including data protection, equal opportunities, health and safety, risk management and meet the differing needs of the patients.
• Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.