Lecturer in Physiotherapy

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you an enthusiastic and experienced physiotherapist looking for a role that provides you with the opportunity to use your practice expertise to enrich the delivery of exceptional teaching and support student success?

Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams, you will be responsible for contributing to an exceptional student experience through the delivery of teaching, research, practice placement development and supervision, knowledge exchange and business and enterprise engagement activity. 

For further detail see the role description.

Colleagues appointed into our Lecturer grade are usually early career academics who are supported through their probationary period to develop their Academic profile. Upon completion of probation objectives these colleagues are automatically moved into the Assistant Professor role.

This is a fixed term role for two years. We will consider both full and part time working

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 therefore the successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The role is offered within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation. The School has a recognised reputation as leading across both research and education, ranked 5th in the UK for research power (REF2021), and 5th for physiotherapy in the Times Higher Education University Guide League Table (2026). Our Physiotherapy education provision includes extended, undergraduate and MSc (pre-registration) programmes. Following extensive investment in our facilities we are relocating to state-of-the-art teaching spaces at our city campus, including an innovative student led clinic. 

ABOUT YOU

Applicants should hold a doctoral qualification and be able to demonstrate evidence of established clinical practice and specialist knowledge in physiotherapy, along with experience of supporting physiotherapy education. Experience of designing, delivering, and assessing high-quality teaching and learning practice as well as evidence of contributing to the wider physiotherapy profession through service improvement, leadership or research are essential. 

Membership (or eligibility for membership) of Health and Care Professions Council is essential.

Further information about the requirements of the Lecturer role is available in the person specification.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Katherine Baker, Head of Subject – Physiotherapy, [email protected].

This opportunity is open to applications from internal candidates who do not hold a current substantive academic role at Northumbria. Current academic colleagues with a substantive role are encouraged to consider options to progress via the Academic Development Review process.

Pay, Pensions and Total Reward Approach

Northumbria University offers a competitive reward package for academic colleagues through our Total Reward Approach. This combines salary and pension provision to provide flexibility and choice, enabling colleagues to select the option that best suits their individual circumstances.

Academic colleagues can choose to join either the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) or the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).

Further information about our Total Reward Approach, including pay, pension options and career progression, can be found on our dedicated webpage.

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'.  Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.  Please ensure your CV includes research / education statements, and grants and publications list highlighting your highest quality research outputs up to a maximum of four.  For your most recent grants please include the grant title, funder reference, funder, amount, and your role.  In addition, you are asked to provide copies of the top two research outputs (Journal / book chapter / practice-based portfolio). 

ABOUT US

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With over 37,000 students from 140+ countries, we offer world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and an outstanding student experience. We empower our exceptional staff, promoting a positive work-life balance and offering great benefits, including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, generous holiday entitlement and more.

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Based in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation and offer flexible hours and location where the role allows. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holding a Silver Athena Swan in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, a bronze Race Equality Charter Award and we are a Disability Confident Leader.  We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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