Job Introduction
Deliver Specialist Care That Shapes Better Outcomes
As a Band 6 MSK Physiotherapist, you'll make a real difference to people's lives by helping them overcome pain, improve movement, and return to the activities that matter most to them. Through expert assessment, treatment and rehabilitation, you'll support patients to achieve the best possible outcomes while promoting long-term self-management and wellbeing.
Job Summary
Join a supportive and forward-thinking physiotherapy team where you'll have the opportunity to combine specialist clinical practice with leadership and service development responsibilities. You'll manage your own musculoskeletal caseload, deliver evidence-based interventions, supervise and support junior staff and students, and contribute to ongoing quality improvement initiatives.
This role is ideal for an experienced physiotherapist looking to develop their clinical and leadership skills within a collaborative community healthcare setting.
This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week) is based at Five Rivers Health & Wellbeing Centre in Salisbury.
Package Description
As a Band 6 MSK Physiotherapist you will be part of our valued team in Physiotherapy Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
What You'll Bring to Patient Care and Service Excellence
- Deliver specialist musculoskeletal assessment, diagnosis and treatment to support outstanding patient outcomes.
- Independently manage a complex caseload using evidence-based practice and advanced clinical reasoning.
- Support the operational leadership of the service, helping to ensure efficient and effective delivery of care.
- Mentor, supervise and develop junior staff and physiotherapy students.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues to provide seamless, person-centred care.
- Empower patients through education, rehabilitation and self-management strategies.
- Contribute to audit, service development and quality improvement initiatives.
- Promote clinical excellence, professional standards and continuous improvement across the service.
Skills, Experience and Attributes
We're seeking a motivated and skilled MSK Physiotherapist who combines clinical expertise with a passion for improving outcomes for patients and colleagues alike. You'll play a key role in delivering specialist care, supporting learning and development, and contributing to the ongoing evolution of high-quality physiotherapy services.
Essential Criteria
- HCPC Registered Physiotherapist with a BSc or equivalent qualification in Physiotherapy.
- Demonstrable MSK experience within an NHS or comparable healthcare setting.
- Experience independently assessing and treating a varied MSK caseload.
- Strong clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills.
- Experience supporting training, mentorship or clinical supervision.
- Experience contributing to audits, service evaluation or quality improvement initiatives.
- Excellent communication, presentation and teaching skills.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Competence using digital healthcare systems and Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable Criteria
- Accredited specialist training such as acupuncture or Clinical Pilates.
- MSc-level study or advanced postgraduate learning.
- Experience of Band 6 or senior physiotherapy practice.
- Experience of leading teams or services.
- Management or leadership training.
Please refer to the attached Job description for full details of the role.
Further Information - If you would like to find out more about the role, its responsibilities or the team, please contact Lyndsey Flaherty at Lyndsey.Flaherty@hcrgcaregroup.com .
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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Recruitment Enquiries
For support with your application or any recruitment related questions, please contact Karen Rees, Recruitment Advisor, at Karen.Rees@hcrgcaregroup.com or on 07919 118944.
