What can you do with a Physiotherapy degree?

What jobs can you get with a Physiotherapy degree?

Graduates commonly start as newly qualified physiotherapist, rehabilitation assistant, community physiotherapist (entry) or mSD clinic physiotherapist (entry). Physiotherapy also builds skills that employers outside the obvious routes ask for, so many graduates move into roles that do not name the subject at all.

• Newly qualified physiotherapist

  Works a rotational caseload under local preceptorship, progressing treatment plans with a senior.

  Skills these adverts often ask for

  • assessment
  • exercise plans
  • notes

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• Rehabilitation assistant

  Skills these adverts often ask for

  • supervised exercise
  • equipment
  • session logs

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• Community physiotherapist (entry)

  Skills these adverts often ask for

  • home visits
  • falls awareness
  • goal setting

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• MSD clinic physiotherapist (entry)

  Skills these adverts often ask for

  • subjective assessment
  • outcome measures
  • advice

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Where do Physiotherapy graduates work?

Five years after graduating, the largest employer sectors for Allied health graduates in UK employment were health and social work (55.6%), education (9%) and wholesale and retail (6.9%). One year after graduating, the most common sector was health and social work (68.5%).

Most common specific industries

1. Hospital activities — 33.9% of graduates in work, median £35,900
2. Other human health activities — 14.8% of graduates in work, median £36,600
3. Not known — 4.6% of graduates in work, median £16,200
4. Primary education — 4% of graduates in work, median £31,100
5. Retail sale of other goods in specialised stores — 3.9% of graduates in work, median £39,900
6. Administration of the State and the economic and social policy of the community — 3.3% of graduates in work, median £35,100

Physiotherapy graduates had median earnings of £29,300 one year after graduating and £36,600 five years after graduating in the 2023–24 tax year. The median across all first-degree graduates of GB higher education institutions was £33,700 at five years.

How one-year earnings have changed

Which universities have the highest-earning Allied health graduates?

Among universities in our index with at least 50 Allied health graduates measured, University of Cambridge had the highest median earnings five years after graduating (£52,700), followed by University of Bristol (£46,100) and University of Exeter (£43,600).

Newly qualified physiotherapy interviews usually test clinical reasoning, consent, and how you progress a simple case. These prompts are editorial illustrations, not a trust’s actual stations.

1. A patient is in pain and asks you to ‘just click it’. How do you respond?

   What it tests. Consent, explanation, and not performing a technique to please.

2. Walk us through your first assessment of someone after a simple ankle sprain.

   What it tests. Subjective, red flags, and a plan — not a protocol dump.

3. The patient is not doing the home exercise. What do you try next?

   What it tests. Barriers and shared goals, not blaming them.

4. You are unsure whether something is musculoskeletal or needs medical review. What then?

   What it tests. You escalate; you do not hold a case you cannot safely hold.

5. How would you write a discharge note another clinician could use?

   What it tests. What you did, what changed, what is outstanding.

Illustrative question types for the roles above, not questions from a named employer.

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