Specialist Outpatient Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 05 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 to £44,962.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 - £44962.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Huddersfield, HD3 3EA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9372-26-0003 |
Summary
Clinical Duties - To autonomously manage a clinical caseload of patients/service users at a specialist level. Using skills in assessment, shared decision making, treatment and rehabilitation strategies and motivation to address lifestyle changes. - Maintain accurate, comprehensive and contemporaneous records - To use shared-decision making to support patients to set their own goals and be confident in their approach to self-management. - To have specialist assessment and treatment skills which may include, but not limited to: *Physical rehabilitation through manual therapy *Physical rehabilitation through exercise and function *Physical rehabilitation through pain relief which could include acupuncture, electrotherapy etc. *Complex bio-psychosocial assessment of patients *Cognitive and perceptual understanding of condition/person *Falls assessment - Use appropriate outcome measures - To apply evidence-based knowledge within the specialist clinical area acquired through experience, self-directed learning and appropriate access to academic study at post graduate level. - To act, within the MSK physiotherapy service, as a resource and provide advice for physiotherapists, other professionals and colleagues within the MDT about the assessment, treatment, management and care of service users across our pathways. - To work collaboratively with other providers involved with the patients care including medical and surgical consultants, the health and social care community and acute colleagues. - To work with any appropriate members of staff to ensure effective care pathways and transfer of care / discharges. - To work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary manner with any appropriate member of staff being able to work across blurred boundaries if appropriate. - To develop specialist programmes of assessment, treatment and intervention for patients for patients referred to the MSK physiotherapy service. - To manage and prioritise own clinical workload as appropriate, working efficiently to manage professional time and delegate according to the training and competency levels of other team members to ensure the effective delivery of the service. - To participate in the supervision process with staff on a daily basis and for students as required. - To ensure a high standard of patient care is provided and to assist the Team Manager and Clinical Lead Physiotherapist to implement and review clinical standards relevant to the work undertaken. - To use networks locally regionally and nationally where appropriate to share information and good practice - Dependent on Service requirements and previous experience you may be required to participate unsupervised in the out of hours respiratory on call service and weekend orthopaedic service, where needed.