North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist
The closing date is 16 November 2026

Job summary
Are you passionate and driven to deliver exceptional patient care? Do you relish a challenge? This exciting role could be for you.

Our Urgent & Emergency Care (UEC) Front of House team are looking for part-time (22.5/18 hours per week) Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist or an experienced Band 6 seeking a development post to join our service focusing Frailty.

This role uses excellent assessment skills, communication and teamwork to support the frailty service in delivering Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments, preventing deconditioning and supporting a rapid turnaround to minimise hospital stays and facilitate patients to their return home and prevent unnecessary lengthy admissions to hospital wherever possible.

We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge and skills as well as developing your leadership skills by offering;

• Supervision
• Job plan with protected SPA time
• CPD opportunities
• Student education
• Regional networking

If you would like further information, please contact Julie Flint, Emergency & Medicine Therapy Service Lead on julieflint@nhs.net

Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively.

Main duties of the job
The Frailty Service on Ward C16 provides a specialised area for rapid assessment of frail patients. This short-term unit will support appropriate patients for up to 72 hours providing them with assessments and tests as appropriate to ensure the best next steps are in place as they go onto receive care in the community.

When a frail older patient is admitted into our hospital, they are at an increased risk of the negative effects of being in hospital. These include hospital-acquired deconditioning (wasting of the muscles due to moving less), delirium (new confusion), falling over, and hospital acquired infections. As a result, patients can become more dependent and require a significant increase in the support they need to leave hospital.

To reduce this risk, our Frailty Service has been created in collaboration with local healthcare partners to offer personalised comprehensive assessment and care that avoids unnecessary admission to hospital.

The service is one element of collaborative work to ensure older adults have timely access to specialised assessment in the most appropriate location.

The Frailty Service on Ward C16 forms just one part of a system-wide frailty operating model for North Place Partnership, built on five interdependent components designed to deliver proactive, person-centred, and integrated care across the whole pathway--from prevention to crisis response.

About us
Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust's redeployment process.

Details
Date posted: 09 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 176-F-8333533
Job locations: Peterborough City Hospital, Bretton Gate, Peterborough, PE3 9GZ, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
• Essential: HCPC Registered
• Essential: CSP member /RCOT Member
• Essential: Evidence of post graduate training/qualification relevant to frailty
• Essential: Evidence of leadership or management training
• Desirable: MSc in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy

Key Skills

• Essential: Advanced communication skills
• Essential: Standard keyboard skills and the ability to use IT packages such as Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel
• Essential: Ability to undertake rapid assessments in a busy environment
• Essential: Excellent managerial and leadership skills including management of change
• Essential: Ability to recognise and manage own resilience
• Essential: Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Essential: Leadership and motivational skills
• Essential: High level of clinical reasoning
• Essential: Ability to present information in a logical and concise manner

Experience

• Essential: NHS experience working at specialist clinical level in frailty
• Essential: Experience within acute hospital environment
• Essential: Multi-disciplinary working
• Essential: Demonstrate active involvement in QI/Audit/research
• Essential: Managing change
• Essential: Supervising/line management members of staff/students
• Essential: Experience of developing staff and sharing knowledge
• Essential: Working within networks/collaborating with other agencies
• Desirable: Acute respiratory skills (E if physiotherapist)
• Desirable: Experience in community-based roles

Knowledge

• Essential: Of frailty syndromes and the principles of frailty management
• Essential: Of the multi-disciplinary team within frailty
• Essential: Of services available to support effective discharge

Other

• Essential: Awareness and respect for colleagues, patients and relatives cultural, religious and emotional needs and beliefs
• Essential: Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's Values and Behaviours
• Essential: Be prepared to work across sites as and when required
• Essential: Good previous attendance record
• Essential: Ability to work across 7 days a week
• Essential: Professional appearance and behaviour

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Peterborough City Hospital, Bretton Gate, Peterborough, PE3 9GZ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Emergency and Medicine Therapy Service Lead, Julie Flint, julieflint@nhs.net

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust's redeployment process. Applications are considered in line with the Trust's equal opportunities policy.