NRC Rehab Assistant Practitioner | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust


Company:	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Salary:	£28,392 - £31,157 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Loughborough, LE12 5GF
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	30 Jun 2026
Closing date:	6 Aug 2026

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Summary

Exciting Opportunities to Join Our Rehab Team as a Rehab Assistant Practitioner!

We are looking to recruit the National Rehabilitation Centre’s (NRC) Rehab Assistant Practitioners (Band 4). This is an exciting opportunity to join the team and be part of this new centre of excellence.

The NRC is a new, purpose-built 70-bed facility which has been built on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough, delivering a centre of excellence to improve rehabilitation services in England. It is co-located with the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre and shares some of the world class rehabilitation facilities. Thanks to a wide academic partnership, research and innovation and training and education in rehabilitation will be embedded at the NRC and central to clinical practice. We are looking for ambitious and dedicated individuals to join this journey to rehabilitation excellence, transforming outcomes for patients. The NRC will be fantastic for patients but also for staff to access professional development as well as wellbeing support with use of the state-of-the-art facilities.

Find out more about the NRC on our website: www.nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk

The NRC Rehab Assistant Practitioner (AP) is an exciting role that promotes rehabilitation and encompasses skills across the rehabilitation team. The aim of this role is to intensify the rehabilitation patients receive whilst an in-patient at NRC, by incorporating rehabilitation through all activities of a patient’s day; a 24-hour approach to rehabilitation.

Exciting rehabilitation opportunities include:

· Be part of an expert multidisciplinary team that supports patients with their fundamental needs and to reach their rehabilitation goals

· Work with advanced rehab technology

· Support patients in hydrotherapy

· Facilitate a variety of health and wellbeing groups

· Support patients in a gym setting

· Use of the 300-acre rehab estate

If you’re already working as aBand 4elsewhere or meet the criteria in ourJob Description and Person Specification, we are looking for you. We will support you through apreceptorship yearwhere you will completecompetenciesand gain specific skills working in a national centre of excellence.

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

The NRC’s vision is to transform outcomes for people who have suffered potentially life-changing injury, trauma or illness. To support patients to return to active employment or a meaningful standard of life through integrating rehabilitation, research and education, using the latest  innovations and interventions. This will ultimately lead to improving the UK’s position internationally in rehabilitation.

Working as a key part of the NRC team will help to deliver this for our patients in the amazing setting of the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate with the environment and facilities designed to optimise rehab.

This vacancy would suit those that have a wealth of experience working in complex rehabilitation and want to be part of a team to drive the field of rehabilitation forwards for the nation.

This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Jul 2026

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