Job overview
The post holder will provide specialist physiotherapy assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation for patients diagnosed with cancer who are undergoing prehabilitation prior to surgery.
The role involves leading and delivering evidence-based exercise and rehabilitation programmes aimed at improving patients’ physical fitness, functional capacity, wellbeing, and recovery outcomes before treatment begins. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary prehabilitation team alongside oncology clinicians, dietitians, nursing teams and health coaches.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
- To carry out assessment of patients and maintain accurate patient records; use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence based practice to formulate appropriate rehabilitation plans utilising a range of treatment skills and options, which includes gym-based or home-based rehabilitation/pre-habilitation.
- Provide evidence-based interventions to optimise patients prior to cancer treatment.
- Deliver education and advice regarding physical activity, lifestyle modification, exercise adherence, and recovery expectations.
- Monitor patient progress and adjust treatment plans accordingly.
- Participate in outpatient, community, virtual, and group-based rehabilitation programmes where required
- To support the health coaches and provide weekly supervision
- Attend regional pre-habilitation meetings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver Physiotherapy treatment for a complex caseload within a specialist field.
To provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
To provide clinical education, supervision and support to staff and students within the speciality area.
To provide specialist advice to families, carers, other health and social care professionals and/or education services.
To contribute to planning, development and auditing of the Physiotherapy service within the specialist area.
To supervise qualified & unqualified staff within the specialist team.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
- Member of the Health Professionals Council
- Student training qualification
- Recognised qualification and experience in the supervision of undergraduate students.
Desirable
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Working towards Masters level or equivalent accredited courses within chosen speciality e.g. Action Research, McKenzie accredited practitioner, Injection Diploma, Continence Diploma, Accredited Respiratory Care Management.
- Leadership training e.g. LEO/ILM
Other Requirements
Essential
- You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Varied experience in the assessment and management of complex conditions.
- Ability to deliver in-service training and clinical supervision to staff working within specialist team.
- Substantial post graduate experience previous experience
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This advert is for Specialist Senior Physiotherapist with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in North Shields, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 8 months (37.5 hours commence July 2026 until March 31st 2027). The application deadline is 31 Jul 2026.
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