Band 6 Orthopaedic Physiotherapist

Band 6 Orthopaedic Physiotherapist

The closing date is 25 January 2026.

BAND 6 ORTHOPAEDIC PHYSIOTHERAPIST
37.5 hours per week
12-Month Secondment/Fixed Term Contract

This is an exciting opportunity to join our supportive, forward-looking Orthopaedic Therapy Team. We are a positive, forward-looking team always striving to improve our services. We work closely as an integrated Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Team and have excellent working relationships with our orthopaedic consultants, matrons and ward sisters. This allows us to engage in research, audit and service development to have meaningful impact on our patients' care.

We also work closely with our community musculoskeletal team to deliver more joined up services.

We are an innovative team and were early adopters in stopping the use of hip precautions for total hip arthroplasties, with a well‑established Enhanced Recovery Programme for our elective patients, to which Therapies are central. We also have plans to offer physiotherapy‑led pre‑operative clinics for patients undergoing elective day case foot and ankle and knee surgeries. Our team have successfully presented their improvements at BOA and both the CSP and World Physiotherapy Conferences in 2025, and our Out of Bed Project was published internationally which has improved our hip fracture metrics.

We are particularly interested in candidates who share our passion for service development and increasing the profile of physiotherapy in the speciality of orthopaedics to improve patient outcomes.

The successful candidate will need to be a qualified and HCPC registered physiotherapist and should be able to demonstrate previous experience working within Orthopaedics. We are looking for a positive, proactive clinician to join our team who can work flexibly and help us build a strong future for therapy and help us to further increase the profile of Physiotherapy within the speciality of Orthopaedics.

You will have your own clinical caseload and provide assessment and intervention to a wide range of orthopaedic patients with a range of physical and cognitive impairments across elective and trauma, and patients with spinal cord injury. We are a research active team and are currently involved with the FAME, RaCeR‑2 and OPAL trials. If you are passionate about engaging in research, there is a supportive environment for you to develop this, but we expect you to aid the team with clinical audits when required.

In return, we would strive to offer the suitable candidate a supportive, friendly working environment within a team who are open to new ideas. Opportunities for learning within the Trust would be provided, alongside regular supervision and allocated time for Continuous Professional Development. Opportunities for working with the wider multidisciplinary team will be available and strongly encouraged.

Core working hours are 8.00am‑4.00pm and you will work as part of our seven‑day roster.

The James Paget is a vibrant university hospital providing the best possible care to the people of east Norfolk and north Suffolk. Situated on the coast with beautiful beaches and the Broads National Park on the doorstep we are within commuting distance of Norwich City with many of our staff car‑sharing from here. Onsite parking is available.

We know that development and wellbeing are key to the success of your work, and you will receive regular one-to-one supervision to discuss your progress, and any service evaluation and ideas. We are committed to service development
, with many projects currently underway. We are forging strong links with the Research and Development Department and the University of East Anglia, and it is a really exciting time to join the Trust as these processes gather momentum. We thoroughly encourage attendance at courses and offer time and funding to engage in research and innovation activity to widen personal knowledge base and bring new skills to the teams to keep our approach fresh and current.

Our therapists represent the Trust at CSP, RCOT, BOA and BGS conferences and support future staff to do this. In addition, we have an embedded flexible…