Specialist Physiotherapist

Overview

Applications are invited for a Band 6 Pelvic Health Specialist Physiotherapist for the Bladder and Bowel Care Service in the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The closing date is 17 February 2026.

Are you passionate about providing excellent care for your patients? Are you looking for a specialist clinical role in a highly dynamic and expanding service, committed to staff development as well as evidence-based treatment for patients? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated Physiotherapist to join our Multidisciplinary team, covering community Bladder and Bowel Care clinics.

For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.

Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford).

Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within peoples own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.

Its never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as youll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.

For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.

More detail about the role

We believe that everyone should have access to excellent bladder and bowel care, and our service promotes this with holistic assessment and a wide range of treatment options. Our Pelvic Health Physiotherapists are responsible for a varied caseload which includes pelvic floor dysfunctions, and patients from Urology, Gynaecology and Colorectal specialties.

As a specialist clinician you will be actively involved in managing your own clinical caseload. You will be encouraged to take part in education and training events both locally and nationally to develop your own knowledge base and professional development. You will also have scope to provide education to a wide group of people with opportunities to be creative in the way this is delivered.

Previous experience is desirable; however, we are interested in applications from enthusiastic clinicians who wish to develop specialist knowledge and skills in this area and provide person-centred care within a Multidisciplinary team context. A full induction programme will be provided.

This is a community-based post but will be primarily based to support the Mid-Devon area with the expectation to provide some support to North Devon. Therefore, you will be required to drive between clinics and to participate in wider team activities within the Trust both in person and through MS Teams events.

You will provide compassionate care and act as a role model to others within each service, plus support Clinical Leads to provide an integrated, outstanding quality service.

The Bladder & Bowel Service is also responsible for a large home delivery service for incontinence products, and you will be required to guide Community Nurses and wider service users to make clinically sound decisions regarding pad use, while assisting the Operations Manager and Clinical Lead to maintain…