Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover until a Maximum of July 2027)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Including weekend and On call pro-rata)
- Job ref
- 151-NM322-A
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £30,994 - £35,271 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Physiotherapy Clinical Specialist - Acute Team
Band 7
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced and dynamic part time Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist to join our Acute Physiotherapy Team, working predominantly within the Emergency Department (ED) to cover maternity leave up until a maximum of July 2027.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within a fast-paced and unpredictable environment. You will provide advanced assessment, clinical reasoning, and specialist physiotherapy interventions to patients presenting with a wide range of acute and complex conditions.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver advanced assessment and treatment for patients in ED and acute settings
- Support rapid assessment, discharge planning, and admission avoidance
- Manage a complex caseload as an autonomous practitioner
- Work closely within the MDT to ensure safe, effective patient care
- Provide specialist advice, teaching, and supervision to staff and students
- Lead and contribute to service improvement projects
- Work as part of the respiratory on call service
- Cover weekends as part of the Medical team service pro-rata
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide highly specialised assessment and treatment for patients with complex needs.
- Accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload and organise this efficiently with respect to clinical priorities and time management, ensuring a high standard of care for patients under your own and junior staff’s management.
- Demonstrate advanced analytical, investigative, and manual therapy skills to assess, diagnose, and treat patients with acute, chronic, and highly complex presentations.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive patient records in line with professional and Trust standards.
- Assess and manage clinical risk within your own patient caseload, ensuring safe, evidence-based practice always.
- Provide both spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to patients, relatives, carers, and other professionals to promote understanding of physiotherapy aims and ensure a consistent approach to care.
- Liaise with Consultants and other members of the multi-disciplinary team to represent physiotherapy at meetings to ensure coordinated, evidence-based interventions.
- Work as part of the physiotherapy team providing weekend service as required, adhering to guidance.
- Communicate effectively across language and cultural barriers and produce complex patient-related documentation as needed.
For more information please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Degree in Physio
- HCPC registration
- Post-grad training including leadership course
Desirable criteria
- Members of relevant clinical interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working at Band 6 level in NHS within Acute service
- Supervision of students and less experienced staff
- On call competent in NHS
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in the NHS in an Acute hospital inpatient or outpatient setting.
- Previous experience of working as a Band 7 physiotherapist.
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of specialist clinical knowledge in Acute care
- Evidence of service improvement project
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Evidence of leading and participating in audit.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abbie Masters
- Job title
- Principal Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6139295
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