Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist - Critical Care and Surgery
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist to join the Critical Care Physiotherapy team at William Harvey Hospital. The role involves leading, developing, and evaluating critical care and surgical physiotherapy services, providing clinical expertise, and offering supervision and teaching. The post holder will also ensure clinical governance targets are met and contribute to service development within a multidisciplinary team.
Key responsibilities
- Lead, develop and evaluate critical care and surgical Physiotherapy services.
- Provide therapeutic clinical expertise, high quality advice and support to the multi-disciplinary team.
- Deliver clinical supervision, appraisal and teaching.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and collaborative working with other clinical specialists.
- Ensure clinical governance targets are met, including developing clinical standards and protocols.
- Contribute to the critical care follow up and rehabilitation service.
Essential criteria
- Current HCPC registration
- Degree relevant to professional registration and area of clinical practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development within Critical Care chosen speciality
- Significant postgraduate healthcare experience equivalent to L7, demonstrating professional development across the four pillars of practice
- Significant experience of care of the Critical Care patient
- Experience of working with patients/service users to resolve concerns and improve their experience
- Experience of supervising staff and delivering training
- Experience of assessing patients and providing high quality intervention for complex patients
- Ability to demonstrate high quality clinical and evidence based practice
- Understanding of quality governance, patient safety and patient experience tools to support clinical practice and service improvement
- Sound knowledge and understanding of national policy and guidance and developments in the NHS; including clinical governance, NICE, CQC and GIRFT
- Utilisation of clinical effectiveness tools to deliver quality improvement
- Evidence of innovative practice utilising research and audit
- Experience of contributing to quality improvement in safety/quality improvement projects
- Experience of writing reports and presenting to teams of small groups
- Ability to work within a team to achieving goals for a shared vision
- Evidence of service development and delivery in practice
- Knowledge of health policy and application to practice
- Ability to problem solve, anticipate and plan, individually and within a team
- Demonstrate self-awareness and critical reflection
- Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, considering Trust policies and procedures
- Flexibility in working patterns to meet the needs of service
- Commitment to equity and diversity
- Self-motivated, positive, adaptable and flexible approach
- Upholds and role models the Trust values
- Able to travel around East Kent, and between Trust hospital sites
Desirable criteria
- Master's level qualifications
- NHS Leadership Academy qualification
- Member of CSP
- Experience of presenting to groups of staff/public
- Experience of implementing and evaluating improvements in care
- Knowledge of quality assurance and improvement methodology
- Member of regional/national specialist interest groups/networks
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist - Critical Care and Surgery
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has been made available for the right candidate to join our Critical care Physiotherapy team at the William Harvey Hospital in a Clinical Specialist role alongside team leadership responsibilities.
The successful individual will be able to experience leading a team at first-hand alongside other skilled and experienced Clinical specialist team leads on ITU and in the wider Therapy team.
Main duties of the job This post holder will lead, develop and evaluate critical care and surgical Physiotherapy services at WHH hospital.
They will provide therapeutic clinical expertise, high quality advice and support to the multi-disciplinary team. Clinical supervision, appraisal and teaching will be key components of this role.
They will demonstrate excellent communication and collaborative working, along with other clinical specialists across the Health Economy, in order to provide a high quality, efficient service.
In conjunction with the Clinical and Site Lead they will ensure clinical governance targets are met, including the development of clinical standards and protocols, specialist evidence based practice, audit, research, clinical and non-clinical risk management.
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