Specialist Physiotherapist - Intermediate Care

Job details

• Job reference: 257041
• Salary: Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679)
• Job closing date: 19/09/2026
• Job Type: Allied Health Professions
• Location: St John's Hospital
• Employment type: Permanent
• Hours Per Week: 36
• Job posted date: 18/08/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
• Department: Intermediate Care

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Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist

36hours/week

Full Time Post

Discharge to Assess/ Intermediate Care Team- Based in the Community

Are you an experienced Band 5/6 physiotherapist, with strong leadership qualities and assessment skills, seeking a new and diverse challenge?

West Lothian continues to invest in delivering community assessment and rehabilitation closer to home through our Home First programme. This programme has seen significant investment in our community AHP teams and has recently secured funding to introduce a community single point of contact to enhance the patient pathways.

The successful applicant would be joining a very stable and dynamic multi-disciplinary team with a passion for integrated work, putting patient outcomes and experience at the heart of their practice. Including working closely with our inpatient colleagues to identify and facilitate early supported discharge and provide rehabilitation in the community.

We are a forward thinking and high performing Partnership promoting excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate support to our patients within West Lothian. This means being a provider of excellent patient safety, putting the patient at the heart of all decisions and supporting them in the right setting by the right skilled professional at the right time to optimize their outcomes.

We would love it if you could come and join us and be part of the West Lothian Home First story. For informal enquiries please contact Dawn Robertson on 01506 524 149.

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