Senior Physiotherapist

Main area Acute Therapies Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (To cover an employee on Maternity Leave until Oct-27) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Monday to Sunday) Job
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Site Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan Lane, Wigan, WN1 2NN
. Town Wigan Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/10/2026 23:59

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 5 or current Band 6 physiotherapist to come and join our friendly and supportive ICU and surgical physiotherapy team at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan.

The ICU/Surgery physiotherapy team provide assessment and treatment of critical care patients including rehabilitation in the intensive care setting on our 11 bedded unit. We also cover two busy general surgery wards and support the rehabilitation of step-down critical care patient within our in-patient therapy teams. Part of our service also covers inpatient paediatric respiratory patients.

We are looking for a post holder who has experience in assessing and treating adult respiratory patients in the critical care setting, general surgery patients and respiratory medicine patients including discharge planning. Experience of treating paediatrics patient is desirable but not essential as support and training well will be provided.

There will be opportunity to work closely with our wider MDT teams on ICU and Surgical wards to provide a patient centred approach to patients’ in-patient experience.

This post includes participation in 7 days working and respiratory on-call. Training for the on-call respiratory rota will be provided.

NHS Employees are required to secure their manager’s agreement for a secondment arrangement prior to applying, as this will be a condition of any offer made. This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term basis as it has been established to provide maternity cover and will end 1-Oct-27 or resumption of the post holder, whichever is sooner. Whilst this post is advertised on a fixed term basis there is the potential that this may become permanent in the future, without the need to re‑advertise.

• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy service to patients with surgical/critical care conditions
• To act as a source of knowledge on the management of patients presenting with a wide range of surgical/critical care conditions and provide an advisory/educational service to patients, relatives, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals.
• To take a role in the specialist assessment and treatment of patients within the surgical/critical care speciality who may have complex and or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated.
• To hold responsibility for own case load and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences. Access to advice and support from a senior physiotherapist is available if required, clinical work is routinely evaluated.
• To work jointly with staff from social services, hospital trusts, primary care trusts, education, etc., in providing rehabilitation and co‑ordinating discharge.
• To educate and train physiotherapists, other health professionals and physiotherapy students in the management of physiotherapy conditions as appropriate in current

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