Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 28 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £39,959.00 to £48,117.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £39959.00 - £48117.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2026 |
| Location: | Gloucester, GL1 3WL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9327-26-0340 |
Summary
To engage in specialist physiotherapy assessments and plan relevant care in partnership with service users. To carry out risk assessment, along with the multi-disciplinary team. . To be responsible for providing a wide range of specialist physiotherapy treatment interventions to service users. To hold responsibility for the assessment, prescription, risk assessment, care planning of standard and specialist equipment. To formulate and cascade advance manual handling associated with the use of specialist equipment. To engage in holistic patient centred care in the formulation of treatment and goal setting. To include effective communication with patients, carers and health care staff. To continually evaluate outcomes and reassess treatment plans and risk assessments as the patients condition changes, from both a physical and mental health perspective. To actively participate in multi-agency patient planning meetings, patient reviews, ward and department meetings. To work as an autonomous practitioner and manage a designated patient caseload and to be responsible for prioritisation and planning. To take a lead on complex cases. To support and advise the Physiotherapy and Health and Exercise Team in the assessment and treatment of complex cases, to include the triaging and allocation of workload to staff. To advise carers, the MDT and outside agencies, including primary care professionals, in matters related to specialist intervention and care. To be a leading member of the physiotherapy and multi-disciplinary teams in-service training programme. Including mentorship and preceptorship, in-service training, peer supervision, journal club and observed practise. This will also include the assessment of competencies within scope of practise. To contribute to the planning and development of the service by developing new initiatives inline with local and national policies. This may include professional and team objectives, development of policies, standards, audit and evaluation of evidence-based practice. To act as a Clinical Educator to undergraduate students, complete educator training, undertaking assessment in line with their placement objectives and liaising appropriately with their university tutors. To deputise for the team manager in their absence. The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas