Specialist Physiotherapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and advice to patients and carers, including those with complex disabilities and terminal care needs. You will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary community team, including Urgent Care Response, ensuring therapy input is integrated into patient care plans. Responsibilities also include supervising junior staff and students, and contributing to service development. Some services may require on-call and weekend work.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment and advice to patients and their carers.
- Work as an autonomous practitioner, often lone working, within a Multidisciplinary team in a community setting.
- Ensure therapy input is integrated into patients' care plans.
- Provide supervision, training and support to junior staff and students.
- Work with managers to develop the service and provide an equitable service across the Trust.
- Manage your caseload, including appropriate delegation, and supervise and support junior team members.
Essential criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Desirable criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Physiotherapist
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
The role will provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment and advice to patients and their carers. The caseload will include many acute and chronic care cases with complex disabilities and needs. Some services will also include terminal care cases.
You will also be part of a Multidisciplinary team working in a community setting, including Urgent Care Response.
You will ensure that therapy input is integrated into the patients care plan.
Work as an autonomous practitioner working without direct supervision and, sometimes, lone working.
Provide supervision, training and support to junior staff and students.
Work with managers to develop the service in line with patient need and trust-wide developments and to help provide an equitable service across the Trust.
Some services are currently required to participate in on-call and weekend work.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
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