advanced physiotherapist
Advanced physiotherapists are highly specialised. They make complex decisions and manage risks in unpredictable contexts and within a defined area. They may focus on a specific area of clinical practice, education, research or professional management.
advanced physiotherapist advanced physiotherapists are highly specialised. They make complex decisions and manage risks in unpredictable contexts and within a defined area. They may focus on a specific area of clinical practice, education, research or professional management. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include manage healthcare staff, contribute to quality physiotherapy services, create solutions to problems, respond to changing situations in health care, manage a healthcare unit budget.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £43,532 a year for Physiotherapists (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £35,953 to £50,694 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 2221). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only advanced physiotherapist, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 2. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Psychology
- Biology
- Therapy and Counseling
- Education and Training
- English Language
- Customer and Personal Service
- Administration and Management
What you'd actually do
- Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes.
- Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
- Assess characteristics of patients' pain, such as intensity, location, or duration, using standardized clinical measures.
- Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
- Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions, such as medication or spinal injections.
- Develop comprehensive plans for immediate and long-term rehabilitation, including therapeutic exercise, speech and occupational therapy, counseling, cognitive retraining, patient, family or caregiver education, or community reintegration.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does advanced physiotherapist do?
Advanced physiotherapists are highly specialised. They make complex decisions and manage risks in unpredictable contexts and within a defined area. They may focus on a specific area of clinical practice, education, research or professional management.
What skills does advanced physiotherapist need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include manage healthcare staff, contribute to quality physiotherapy services, create solutions to problems, respond to changing situations in health care, manage a healthcare unit budget, educate on the prevention of illness. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace advanced physiotherapist?
Our AI-durability model gives advanced physiotherapist a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.