About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Band 8a Orthopaedic Extended Scope Physiotherapist to play a key role within our dynamic Orthopaedic team within NHS Lanarkshire. This senior clinical leadership position requires expert autonomous practice, advanced diagnostic reasoning, and the ability to manage complex orthopaedic presentations across a diverse patient caseload.

As an integral member of the Orthopaedic team, you will provide specialist assessment and management, including advanced imaging interpretation, injection therapy (where appropriate), and support decision making for surgical and non surgical pathways. You will work collaboratively with Orthopaedic Consultants, other stakeholders, and wider MDT colleagues to drive high quality, timely and patient centred care.

In addition to expert clinical practice, you will lead on service development initiatives, contribute to pathway redesign, support governance activity, and provide clinical leadership, education, and mentorship across the Orthopaedic workforce. This role offers the opportunity to help shape strategic service improvements and influence the future direction of Orthopaedic care within the organisation.

We welcome applications from experienced Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners (both generic and subspecialty) with a passion for innovation, excellence, and delivering impactful patient outcomes.

In this key role, you will:

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work including direct and indirect patient care including work outside the normal scope of practice of a Physiotherapist.
• To assess capacity, gain valid consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent.
• Act independently to assess, analyse, clinical and non-clinical information, and provide specialist and comprehensive clinical diagnosis for individual patients. This would include patients with complex presentations.
• To determine the necessity for additional investigations, Physiotherapy interventions or the need for referral to other disciplines including assessment / treatment by rheumatologists or orthopaedic surgeon. This would include advising patients on surgical intervention and patients with complex presentations.

What You'll Bring:

What we Offer

As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Nicholas Kinniburgh, Consultant Physiotherapist on Nicholas.Kinniburgh@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact Nicole Hetherington, Recruitment Administrator on nicole.hetherington@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interested?

Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please review our Application Guidance which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, right‑to‑work requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application

You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack

Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.