Advanced Practice Physiotherapist in Pain Management

A Vacancy at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Advanced Practice Physiotherapist to join our internationally renowned Pain Management Centre at UCLH on a part-time (0.6 WTE) basis. This is a unique opportunity to take on a senior clinical and leadership role within a specialist, multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients with complex and persistent pain conditions.

You will act as an expert resource within the service, providing advanced clinical care, contributing to service development, and leading innovation in pain management pathways. This role is ideal for a clinician with significant experience in chronic pain who is passionate about delivering high-quality, evidence-based, biopsychosocial care and shaping the future of pain services within a leading NHS Trust.

In this advanced practice role, you will lead the delivery of specialist physiotherapy within the pain management service, managing a complex caseload and providing expert clinical input across individual clinics, multidisciplinary assessments, and pain management programmes.

You will play a central role in coordinating and developing key areas of the service, including supporting waiting list management, and ensuring efficient and patient-centred service delivery. Working collaboratively within an experienced interdisciplinary team, you will influence clinical decision-making for patients with highly complex needs and contribute to integrated care pathways across the Trust and beyond.

You will also provide clinical leadership within physiotherapy, supporting and supervising junior staff, contributing to education and training, and promoting best practice. A key aspect of the role is driving service improvement, including leading audit, research, and innovation initiatives, and contributing to the strategic development of pain management services.

This role requires a confident and compassionate clinician with highly developed communication and leadership skills, the ability to manage complexity and uncertainty, and a strong commitment to advancing clinical practice, education, and research in pain management.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

This advert closes on Sunday 2 Aug 2026