Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Community Resource Team
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2026-20-33-DR-A
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Arthurs Hill Clinic
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/06/2026
Employer heading
Senior Physiotherapist
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Integrated Discharge Team (IDT), for an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated Physiotherapist to work in the IDT. You will be working alongside and Multidisciplinary Team of experienced, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurse Specialists, Associate Practitioners, Support Workers and administrative staff.
This post requires the applicant to have significant experience at band 5 or experience at band 6 working with Multidisciplinary teams within the hospital or community services.
You will be expected to work autonomously within both the hospital and community settings assessing, managing, and treating patients, with the aim of preventing admission to hospital, facilitating timely and safe discharges and reviewing patients within the community.
You will be expected to work between the office base, Freeman Hospital, RVI as well as visit patients within their own homes.
The service works over 7 days, from 8am and 6pm with weekend and bank holiday commitments.
A car owner/driver is essential with access to a vehicle for work purposes. As is holding a full UK driving licence.
Candidates are welcome to meet the team for more information.
- Interview Date: 19 June 2026
- 37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
The key objectives in this role are:
- The role would suit an individual who enjoys variety through their week and contributing to a team approach to discharge planning.
- The post holder will have an attention for detail and bring skills of rehabilitation and assessment into their caseload management.
- Carry out admission preventing/ proactive discharge planning at Front of House including working with our FOH frailty team, which involves the Assessment Suite and the Emergency department at the RVI with the aim of preventing admissions and/or reducing their Length of stay
- Timely and safe discharge planning for Discharge To Assess (D2A) hospital discharges from Freeman Hospital and RVI, including D2A visits and community follow-up visits as required
- To assess and engage patients in the community, to attain optimum levels of safety, independence, health and wellbeing.
- Work in our trust intermediate care service to support transition and rehabilitation.
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a high standard of physiotherapy assessment, treatment and advice to a complex patient group of older people and intermediate care client group, including orthopaedics
- To consolidate and build on skills and academic knowledge gained during the first two years post graduation.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent Diploma in Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
- Current Full UK driving licence
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive post registration experience as a junior Physiotherapist in NHS
- Community working and lone working experience
- Working as part of an MDT
- Advanced knowledge of a range of medical conditions and conditions associated with older people and their impact on functional abilities
- Sound knowledge of physio process
- Critical decision making
- Knowledge and experience of applying rehabilitation/Reablement models of intervention
- Working with carers; instruction, advice, support
- Risk assessment and management experience
- Commitment to client centred practice for older people
- Delegation to Support Staff
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of challenges associated with community working
- Knowledge of best practice related to older people/intermediate care
- Experience of musculoskeletal orthopaedics
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- IT skills
- Able to meet the physical demands of the post including wheelchairs, hoists, therapeutic moving and handling of patients
- Effective written and oral communication skills
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsty Gray
- Job title
- Specialist Nurse - IDT Coordinator
- Telephone number
- 01912825360
- Additional information
Naomi Knight - Senior Specialist Nurse
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