05/05/2025
🎓 Are you a brand-new physiotherapy graduate in the UK? 🎓
I graduated from my physiotherapy degree with a 2:1 a year ago (summer 2024).
Here are 5 options to help you after graduation...
👇 OPTIONS 👇
1) NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS): One of the world’s biggest employers.
2) PRIVATE SECTOR: Companies that take on graduates include , , & . Also search for job ads via & .uk, where you may also find opportunities abroad in Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand & UAE.
3) FURTHER STUDY: If you love studying & being an academic, you can opt for a post-graduate studies. Doesn’t even have to be physiotherapy, such as global health or business management. Do note, you can do this in future or while you work.
4) TAKE TIME OUT: TAKE TIME OUT: You don’t have to rush. Do your research during placements, when networking & searching for job opportunities. Providing you have the option to “wait it out”, you can take your time to find the best or perfect opportunity (that’s what I did). Or even, just take time out to find out whether this is what you really want.
5) CHANGE CAREER: Some students I knew realised physiotherapy wasn’t for them, by the time they graduated. Some went into sports, law, marketing, recruitment or business instead. Funny fact, I know a physio who became a lawyer & met a lawyer who became a physio! I myself left behind the world of the arts at 29, to pursue healthcare in 2016.
✨ SO BASICALLY: You Have Options! ✨
Nobody told me the above when I started out & it was a real struggle. I hope the above helps & wish you all the very best 🤞
Chin-Yu ‘Yoshi’ Ng