Job summary
We're looking for a Physiotherapist to join our friendly, supportive team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a forward-thinking environment where you can make a real difference to people's lives.

Working as part of a newly established multi-disciplinary, Integrated Mobile Therapy Team (IMTT), you will be working with people who are living in short term placements in any of our 46 residential and nursing homes, to oversee the delivery of proactive short term rehabilitation support with the aim of helping people return home as soon as possible.

We recognize people leaving hospital or unwell at home can have illness acuity and complexity that requires robust interdisciplinary support. We know that without rehabilitative support, a proportion of those people who, because they lose confidence, skills and functional ability, may not be able to return or remain at home.

• Interview Date Thursday 03 September 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
• NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job
You'll work autonomously and as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, which includes occupational therapists, physiotherapists and physical activity officers.

Your role will include carrying out comprehensive assessments within the care setting, and developing individual rehabilitation plans for the client. Working closely with the activity officers to implement the rehabilitation programme

You will be required to assess the possibility for the client to return to their permanent place of residence and provide facilitated discharges from the care setting.

You will be responsible for providing equipment within their own homes or providing advice on suitable equipment required in the care setting should the client be unable to return home. You will also be responsible for providing minor adaptations within the property and leasing with the Local Authority team regarding major adaptations.

You will ensure that you work within the OT professional standards within all areas of your work including appropriate note keeping, communication with other professions and organisations.

You will be working collaboratively with the social services. The IMTT will be managed by the OT Manager at the ASCP Front of House MDT, but all professional support, training, CPD and supervision will be provided by the Community Resource and Rehabilitation Team staff.

About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit the Newcastle Hospitals website.

Job responsibilities
Our team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Physical Activity Officers will deliver a multi-disciplined, responsive service, focused on Home First principles that helps people regain skills and confidence so that they can return home, as we move towards an enhanced neighbourhood health model.

This front facing position offers the opportunity to make a real impact at the first point of contact, supporting strengths-based approaches and ensuring timely, appropriate care pathways for adults across a wide range of presentations, including falls, frailty, long-term conditions and hospital discharges.

• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy assessment, treatment and advice to a complex patient group of older people and intermediate care client group, including orthopaedics
• To consolidate and build on skills and academic knowledge gained during the first two years post graduation

Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential

• Degree or equivalent Diploma in Physiotherapy
• HCPC registration
• Current UK driving licence

Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Comprehensive post registration experience as a junior Physiotherapist in NHS
• Community working and lone working experience
• Working as part of an MDT
• Advanced knowledge of a range of medical conditions and conditions associated with older people and their impact on functional abilities
• Sound knowledge of physio process
• Critical decision making
• Knowledge and experience of applying rehabilitation/Reablement models of intervention
• Working with carers; instruction, advice, support
• Risk assessment and management experience
• Commitment to client centred practice for older people
• Delegation to Support Staff

Desirable

• Awareness of challenges associated with community working
• Knowledge of best practice related to older people/intermediate care
• Experience of musculoskeletal orthopaedics

Skills & Abilities
Essential

• IT skills
• Able to meet the physical demands of the post including wheelchairs, hoists, therapeutic moving and handling of patients
• Effective written and oral communication skills

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.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

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

Employer contact details
Advanced Physiotherapist
Steve McLaren
steven.mclaren2@nhs.net
01912826627

Key details
Date posted: 03 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 317-2026-31-048
Job locations: Trustwide, 317 Trustwide, NE1 4LP, United Kingdom