The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Senior Physiotherapist

The closing date is 18 September 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic, and dedicated Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our dynamic Adult Outpatient Therapy MSK Team at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.

This rotational post offers experience across a variety of specialist areas, including: MSK Outpatients Gym and Hydrotherapy Orthopaedics. The successful candidate will be expected to work flexibly across all three of our sites.

We are committed to supporting your professional growth through: A robust and well-structured in-service training programme.

Regular supervision and peer support from highly specialised and advanced physiotherapy practitioners.

Opportunities to contribute to service development and quality improvement projects.

Active participation in MSK Special Interest Groups within the outpatient therapies service.

This post is ideal for a physiotherapist seeking to broaden their clinical expertise, develop leadership skills, and play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within a supportive and forward-thinking team.

Main duties of the job

To provide advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological symptoms associated with musculoskeletal conditions in a broad variety of clinical settings.

This will include, Musculoskeletal out-patients- Upper Limb, head, neck & Spinal; Lower Limb and Hydrotherapy and Orthopaedic in-patients;

The senior clinician will provide a diagnosis, develop, and deliver an individual treatment programme for this patient.

To provide leadership and support to junior colleagues in the assessment and management of musculoskeletal clinical conditions.

To provide peer support, supervision and second opinions to members of the musculoskeletal team.

Participate in 7-day cover for the orthopaedic unit, helping to prevent delayed discharges.

To be responsible for the technical instructors on duty.

To provide clinical education of physiotherapy students on placement.

To undertake a management role where appropriate in the clinical setting, where overseeing, planning and implementing objectives for juniors and assistants is necessary.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs.

Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Date posted

02 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

000624

Job locations

Trust-wide

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Graduate diploma/degree in physiotherapy

Registered with the HPC

Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent and relevant postgraduate courses.

Portfolio evidence of information learning.

Comprehensive experience at Band 5 level in a rotational post, providing a broad range of experience in core and specialist rotations.

Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multidisciplinary team.

Involvement in audit, research and understanding quality issues.

Contributing to clinical education of students and training other staff.

Remain updated with professional practice and new research.

Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession.

Ability to present information written and orally in a clear and logical manner.

Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate.

Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit.

Ability to comprehend and work within the Trusts policies including data protection, equal opportunities, health and safety, risk management and meet the differing needs of the patients.

Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.

Ability to use and develop appropriate patient handling skills.

Ability to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities.