Physiotherapist - Rotational Post | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,485 - £52,521 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, E11 1NR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7589248/259-7589248WXH |
Summary
“To be the Y of NEL, empowering people to live their best life, committed to innovative development of our staff and services with transparency. Think of us as part of your caring family as we are proud to be one.”
We are a friendly place to work, hold wellbeing activities, are an inclusive and diverse department with a band 6 professional development teaching programme supporting you to gain band 6 knowledge and skills as you begin your leadership journey.
Our general and specialist rotations include:
· Stroke Rehabilitation & Community Stroke Service
· Acute Older Peoples Services
· Critical Care with Surgery
· Surgery, Amputee Rehabilitation & Critical Care
· Acute Medicine with the following specialties: endocrinology, neurology & respiratory.
· Orthopaedics
· Emergency Therapy Team - Frailty unit, Accident & Emergency, Acute Assessment Unit
You will be involved in Quality Improvement projects, have students, participate in weekend working and the emergency respiratory on-call rota, supported by band 7 OT and PT team leads and the OT/PT Clinical Leads. We have a Trust’s Appraisal system and a Band 7 Practice Development Physiotherapist.
HCPC registration and previous NHS experience is essential for this post.
All interviews will be conducted face to face
Take full professional accountability for managing your own caseload, providing comprehensive assessments, accurate diagnoses, and evidence-based physiotherapy treatments for patients with complex conditions. Deliver individualized care plans using advanced clinical reasoning, manual therapy, exercise, and patient education. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to plan discharges and ensure continuity of care. Maintain accurate records, manage clinical risks, and uphold confidentiality and data protection standards.
Participate in weekend, on-call, and emergency respiratory rotas, offering specialist advice to medical and nursing staff. Supervise junior staff, students, and support workers, contributing to their learning and performance assessments. Engage actively in CPD, maintaining competency across rotations and documenting professional growth. Promote evidence-based practice through audits, research, and service improvement initiatives.
Represent physiotherapy in MDT meetings, ensuring integrated patient care. Demonstrate flexibility across Trust sites, adapting to service needs. Take on leadership and operational responsibilities when required, managing caseloads efficiently while upholding high clinical, professional, and ethical standards.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Dec 2025