# Specialist Physiotherapist - Peterborough

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Peterborough
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Physiotherapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 10 months (Until 2026-31 May 2027)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 24.75 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-12T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-26T13:52:10.127Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Peterborough/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Physiotherapist/Physiotherapist-v7958979
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7958979?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you enthusiastic and motivated? Do you relish a challenge? This exciting role could be for you. We are looking for a 0.66WTE Maternity leave cover until 31 May 2027.

If you are an experienced Band 6 or a Band 5 Registered Physiotherapist looking for a developmental role to take you to your next step in your career, we want to hear from you.

You will be joining our thriving Medical Team at Peterborough City Hospital which consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and support staff, and is responsible for the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of patients to facilitate safe, timely discharges. This role is required to support Respiratory on-call rota.

We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge and developing your managerial and leadership skills supporting with;

- Peer & senior support
- Supervision
- Protected non-clinical time
- CPD opportunities
- Student education
- Appraisals
- Specialty workstreams; MSCC, Parkinson’s Disease, falls & frailty, neurology and dementia & delirium
- Cross site & regional professional meetings

If you would like further information, please contact Sarah Bowler, Highly Specialist Team Lead Physio on \[email protected\]

Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively.

### Main duties of the job

- To enable Physiotherapy to provide Therapy Skills within the inpatient service
- To ensure safe, efficient and effective delivery of patient focussed care in line with identified evidence based practice, local and national standards
- To work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary and Multi-agency Teams
- To participate in delegated projects for service development with the team
- To act autonomously in the assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have a complex presentation
- To demonstrate a flexible approach to working in support of the whole in patient/outpatient team
- To undertake weekend working as required within service developments
- To be available to provide Clinical Supervision
- This role entails 80% Clinical Contact and 20% Operational Management as appropriate within team requirements
- To guide Band 5 and support staff in the management and delivery of therapeutic care plans

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more details regarding this role.

## Job Details

Are you enthusiastic and motivated? Do you relish a challenge? This exciting role could be for you. We are looking for a 0.66WTE Maternity leave cover until 31 May 2027.

If you are an experienced Band 6 or a Band 5 Registered Physiotherapist looking for a developmental role to take you to your next step in your career, we want to hear from you.

You will be joining our thriving Medical Team at Peterborough City Hospital which consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and support staff, and is responsible for the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of patients to facilitate safe, timely discharges. This role is required to support Respiratory on-call rota.

We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge and developing your managerial and leadership skills supporting with;

Peer & senior support

Supervision

Protected non-clinical time

CPD opportunities

Student education

Appraisals

Specialty workstreams; MSCC, Parkinson’s Disease, falls & frailty, neurology and dementia & delirium

Cross site & regional professional meetings

If you would like further information, please contact Sarah Bowler, Highly Specialist Team Lead Physio on \[email protected\]

Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively.

## Job Description

To enable Physiotherapy to provide Therapy Skills within the inpatient service

To ensure safe, efficient and effective delivery of patient focussed care in line with identified evidence based practice, local and national standards

To work collaboratively within Multidisciplinary and Multi-agency Teams

To participate in delegated projects for service development with the team

To act autonomously in the assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have a complex presentation

To demonstrate a flexible approach to working in support of the whole in patient/outpatient team

To undertake weekend working as required within service developments

To be available to provide Clinical Supervision

This role entails 80% Clinical Contact and 20% Operational Management as appropriate within team requirements

To guide Band 5 and support staff in the management and delivery of therapeutic care plans

## Responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more details regarding this role.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Sound respiratory knowledge
- Sound knowledge of the multi-disciplinary team within Medicine for Older People and respiratory medicine

**Desirable**

- Awareness of services available to support effective discharge

### Experience

**Essential**

- NHS experience working at senior level
- Acute Respiratory skills incl. on call
- Worked within acute inpatient hospital environment
- Multi-Disciplinary Working
- Awareness of change management principles
- Supervising and mentoring junior members of staff and pre registration students
- Experience of developing staff and sharing knowledge

**Desirable**

- Experience in community-based roles
- Demonstrate active involvement in the audit process
- Undertaking Annual Appraisals
- Ability to demonstrate working with regional/national networks
- Experience of working collaboratively with community teams

### Key Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to undertake rapid assessments in a busy and pressured environment
- Excellent managerial and leadership skills
- Advanced communication skills
- Evidence of resilience
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Leadership and motivational skills
- High level of clinical reasoning
- Ability to present information in a logical and concise manner
- Standard key board skills & the ability to use IT packages such as Word, Outlook, Power point & Excel

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- HCPC Registered
- Evidence of post graduate training/qualification relevant to clinical area
- CSP member
- Member of CSP Specialist section – Agile People
- Evidence of CPD

**Desirable**

- Evidence of leadership or management training

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 1.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10240122)
- [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886)
- [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865)
- [agile working matrix (pdf, 200.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10240124)
- [person specification (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10240123)
- [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745)
- [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788)

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