Job overview

Are you an experienced Physiotherapist looking to take the next step in your career? We’re offering an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic Stroke Team at Broomfield Hospital as a key clinical leader within our Acute Stroke Unit.

In this role, you’ll assess and treat patients following stroke, providing expert physiotherapy input and acting as a specialist advocate for Stroke Therapy across the site. Your expertise will help shape patient pathways, support colleagues, and ensure the delivery of safe, high‑quality rehabilitation from admission through to discharge.

You’ll be part of a warm, collaborative, and forward‑thinking multidisciplinary team. We offer strong managerial support, opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to play an active role in service development and improvement.

We are seeking a motivated clinician who can lead with confidence—providing day‑to‑day direction for the physiotherapy team, driving performance against national stroke standards, and nurturing a culture that values excellence, compassion, and respect.

If you’re passionate about Stroke rehabilitation and ready to influence meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help us shape the future of Stroke care at Broomfield.

Main duties of the job

• To provide the highest standards of Physiotherapy for our patients affected by Stroke (and other similar Neurologically impaired patients as an adviser).
• To work as an advanced autonomous practitioner.  Assess, sets goals, provides treatment and progresses own patient caseload which contains patients with complex and specialist needs.
• To work mainly on the Acute Stroke unit - but also provide expert support to patients being co-managed in other medical environments as outliers. Support the local therapists with care advice in relation to their Stroke presentation.
• Leads in specialist area; contributes to development of specialist services and relevant policies helping implement policy changes and monitoring standards of clinical practice.
• Supervises, teaches and evaluates students and other staff working in own specialist area.
• Leads clinical audits and may participate in research.
• Daily team leadership and direction as team lead in all operational aspects

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. 

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust