Senior Physiotherapist - Neurosciences and Cancer Care
Colney, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 6 days ago
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced physiotherapist to join our Neurosciences and Cancer Care Team supporting inpatients recovering from a variety of neurological conditions. The post will suit individuals who have completed their core rotations (on a Band 5 Physiotherapist rotation programme) or already have experience at Band 6 and are looking to develop specialist skills working within Neurosciences.
Working within Neurosciences will provide you with an opportunity to work alongside not only an experienced and dedicated Physiotherapy Team but also an experienced Multidisciplinary Team that focuses on early assessment, rehabilitation and timely discharge of patients that have sustained a stroke or neurological conditions such as MS/Traumatic Brain Injury/Peripheral Nerve Injuries. You will be supported by highly specialist senior staff and will have the opportunity to develop both your clinical and leadership skills working with junior staff, physiotherapy support workers and students. Continuous Professional Development is actively supported through an established appraisal system, in-service training and post graduate library facilities.
You Will Be Required To
Interview date: 3rd July 2026
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
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Working within Neurosciences will provide you with an opportunity to work alongside not only an experienced and dedicated Physiotherapy Team but also an experienced Multidisciplinary Team that focuses on early assessment, rehabilitation and timely discharge of patients that have sustained a stroke or neurological conditions such as MS/Traumatic Brain Injury/Peripheral Nerve Injuries. You will be supported by highly specialist senior staff and will have the opportunity to develop both your clinical and leadership skills working with junior staff, physiotherapy support workers and students. Continuous Professional Development is actively supported through an established appraisal system, in-service training and post graduate library facilities.
You Will Be Required To
- work on our inpatient wards with our experienced and dedicated team of registered and unregistered therapists supporting patients during recovery from acute illness.
- be an active part of the wider multi-disciplinary team and will have the opportunity to develop new skills with access to training and professional development.
- undertake a variety of non-clinical and clinical tasks to support the delivery of physiotherapy services to our Neurosciences patients.
- be required to assess, prioritise and manage your own caseload of hyper-acute and acute stroke patients and patients with other Neurological conditions, determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated, and maintain records as a legally autonomous practitioner. Patient presentation may be complex/highly complex.
- be responsible for training, supervising and monitoring other physiotherapists, physiotherapy assistant practitioners, assistants and, with support, to performance manage students.
- provide clinical leadership within the speciality including educational, professional and managerial guidance and have an active role in the planning, development, coordination, delivery and evaluation of the physiotherapy service provided to patients within and out-reaching from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Interview date: 3rd July 2026
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
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