Are you a newly qualified HCPC registered Physiotherapist or are you a Band 5 who wishes to further develop your clinical knowledge and gain more experience in a well supported environment? If so, then NHS Fife would be delighted to hear from you.
Allowing you time to learn and develop, our rotations are 6 monthly and across a range of specialties. They include trauma and elective orthopaedics in our purpose-built orthopaedic centre, acute and elderly medicine with access to renal and cardiology, surgical and respiratory care with exposure to ICU & HDU, neurology, paediatrics, community and MSK outpatients. Whilst rotations are structured, an individual’s own learning plan can influence allocation.
As we progress with extending 5 out of 7 day working, a willingness to weekend working is essential, however this is supported with a dynamic approach to work patterns. We consider flexible working, provide hybrid undergraduate placements and we support selective home working for non clinical pieces of work.
Although Fife is a large geographical area the rotations operate across Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline, Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and Community placements in Central and West Fife. The locations are all commutable from Lothian, Forth Valley, Dundee and Perth and car share amongst colleagues is often available.
Our NHS Fife Physiotherapy strategy has 3 aims; inclusion, excellence and sustainability. Please come and join us.
For informal enquiries, please contact Catriona Bruce, Physiotherapy Manager on 01592 643355 ext. 21108.
As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be foundhere.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.
Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
