Nurse Specialist/Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary, North East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust based in 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary. The advertised salary is £49,387 to £56,515. Applications close on 11 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Shape the future of colorectal care and make a real difference to patients living with bowel dysfunction. We are seeking an experienced, highly motiva...
The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced clinical assessment skills, excellent communication abilities, and a passion for service improvement and innovation. You will have experience managing patients with bowel dysfunction and be confident in autonomous decision-making, care planning and coordinating complex patient pathways.
This role offers the opportunity to contribute to research, audit, education and quality improvement initiatives, helping to shape and develop the future delivery of bowel dysfunction services.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking specialist service where you will be supported to develop advanced clinical expertise, influence service delivery and improve the lives of patients living with bowel dysfunction. The role provides opportunities for professional development, service innovation and collaborative working across a highly respected multidisciplinary team.
If you are passionate about delivering outstanding specialist care and driving improvements in colorectal services, we would welcome your application.
This post is open to female applicants only as permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Being female is a genuine occupational requirement due to the nature of the services provided to women affected by domestic abuse.
- Undertake comprehensive specialist assessments of patients with bowel dysfunction.
- Develop and implement individualised management plans using evidence-based practice.
- Lead nurse- or therapist-led clinics and provide ongoing patient treatment and follow-up.
- Act as an expert resource for patients, families and healthcare professionals.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary care and facilitate seamless patient pathways.
- Contribute to service development, audit, governance and quality improvement initiatives.
- Provide education and training to colleagues and students.
- Support the evaluation and implementation of new treatments and innovations within bowel dysfunction services.
Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
- Interview Date Tuesday 20 October 2026
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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How this role compares
We hold 349 NHS vacancies in North East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays more than about 77% of them.
There are 12,785 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 618 of them in North East.
You have 8 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 59 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has 44 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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