Senior Rotational Physiotherapist in Critical Care/Respiratory/Surgery
| Posting date: | 12 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8XP |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7631856/287-RMED-492-25 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled, well-motivated and dynamic Band 6 Physiotherapist to join the Critical Care/ Respiratory/ Surgical Therapy Team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
You will be based in the Royal Liverpool Hospital and will be responsible for supporting the Physiotherapy Service through nine-monthly rotations across the surgical wards, critical care and respiratory medicine and cardiology areas including respiratory support unit (which provides non-invasive ventilation and tracheostomy care) and respiratory outpatient clinic. You should have a strong clinical background, and knowledge and skills acquired across a variety of settings.
You will be part of a high functioning multidisciplinary team providing specialist clinical contribution to the patient journey with high level assessment and treatment planning for complex patients. You should have excellent organisational, planning and time management skills. You will need be on-call competent and comfortable with working in a challenging, acute, fast paced environment.
You must have strong leadership and people management skills, including supervision. You will be joining an innovative team and are expected to demonstrate a strong commitment to service development, audit and research.
We are passionate about developing our staff, you will have access to peer support and supervision from Team Leads and will be supported to attend courses and training.
• To provide clinical assessment and treatment for complex patients with respiratory and rehabilitation need.
• To design and deliver training and development of junior members of staff to develop clinical skills, including on call competency. There is an expectancy that the successful candidate will play a lead role in this area.
• To support a busy team of Physios, OTs, TAs, and APs alongside team leaders.
• To organise and contribute to in-service training programmes for staff and students, and the wider MDT.
• To support with data collection and performance monitoring of the clinical areas and use this data to identify areas of the service needing development.
• To provide supervision, support and appraisal to bands 5-3.
• To provide supervision and support to undergraduate students from HEI’s in the Northwest.
The successful candidate must be able to work flexibly to meet service demands over a seven-day service, and there is a clinical expectation to participate in the on-call rota as required.
Part time applications will be considered.
Offers of employment may be made for a Band 6 training post under Annex 21 AFC terms and conditions.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
Clinical
1. To undertake physiotherapy assessment, clinically diagnose and implement agreed treatment plans, evaluate care delivery according to health care needs for routine and complex patients.
2. To advise, assist and educate, staff grade Physiotherapist and student Physiotherapist in the management of routine patients.
3. To ensure effective communication with patients, carers and all other Health & Social Care Professionals regarding all aspects of patient care. This will include patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating.
4. To participate in Departmental Planned Out of Hours Working and
Emergency On-Call Rota.
5. Represent Physiotherapy Service at Multidisciplinary Meetings to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated Multidisciplinary Service.
6. Attend relevant ward rounds and clinics, working alongside the
Multidisciplinary Team, assessing, advising and treating patients as required.
Please refer to detailed Job Description attached
This advert closes on Friday 26 Dec 2025
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled, well-motivated and dynamic Band 6 Physiotherapist to join the Critical Care/ Respiratory/ Surgical Therapy Team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
You will be based in the Royal Liverpool Hospital and will be responsible for supporting the Physiotherapy Service through nine-monthly rotations across the surgical wards, critical care and respiratory medicine and cardiology areas including respiratory support unit (which provides non-invasive ventilation and tracheostomy care) and respiratory outpatient clinic. You should have a strong clinical background, and knowledge and skills acquired across a variety of settings.
You will be part of a high functioning multidisciplinary team providing specialist clinical contribution to the patient journey with high level assessment and treatment planning for complex patients. You should have excellent organisational, planning and time management skills. You will need be on-call competent and comfortable with working in a challenging, acute, fast paced environment.
You must have strong leadership and people management skills, including supervision. You will be joining an innovative team and are expected to demonstrate a strong commitment to service development, audit and research.
We are passionate about developing our staff, you will have access to peer support and supervision from Team Leads and will be supported to attend courses and training.
• To provide clinical assessment and treatment for complex patients with respiratory and rehabilitation need.
• To design and deliver training and development of junior members of staff to develop clinical skills, including on call competency. There is an expectancy that the successful candidate will play a lead role in this area.
• To support a busy team of Physios, OTs, TAs, and APs alongside team leaders.
• To organise and contribute to in-service training programmes for staff and students, and the wider MDT.
• To support with data collection and performance monitoring of the clinical areas and use this data to identify areas of the service needing development.
• To provide supervision, support and appraisal to bands 5-3.
• To provide supervision and support to undergraduate students from HEI’s in the Northwest.
The successful candidate must be able to work flexibly to meet service demands over a seven-day service, and there is a clinical expectation to participate in the on-call rota as required.
Part time applications will be considered.
Offers of employment may be made for a Band 6 training post under Annex 21 AFC terms and conditions.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
Clinical
1. To undertake physiotherapy assessment, clinically diagnose and implement agreed treatment plans, evaluate care delivery according to health care needs for routine and complex patients.
2. To advise, assist and educate, staff grade Physiotherapist and student Physiotherapist in the management of routine patients.
3. To ensure effective communication with patients, carers and all other Health & Social Care Professionals regarding all aspects of patient care. This will include patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating.
4. To participate in Departmental Planned Out of Hours Working and
Emergency On-Call Rota.
5. Represent Physiotherapy Service at Multidisciplinary Meetings to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated Multidisciplinary Service.
6. Attend relevant ward rounds and clinics, working alongside the
Multidisciplinary Team, assessing, advising and treating patients as required.
Please refer to detailed Job Description attached
This advert closes on Friday 26 Dec 2025