Job summary
Were looking for a friendly, professional, and self-motivated physiotherapist to join our supportive MSK team at Warminster. This role offers the opportunity to lead the day-to-day running of the physiotherapy department while balancing clinical and non-clinical responsibilities.
Ideal for those with a passion for MSK and an interest in developing leadership skills, you'll work within a welcoming team alongside experienced clinicians and benefit from strong training and mentorship opportunities, including involvement in APP-led orthopaedic clinics and MSK pathway projects.
You'll need excellent clinical reasoning, assessment, and communication skills to manage a diverse caseload, including MSK, orthopaedic, and general health conditions. As a senior physiotherapist, your responsibilities will grow with your experience, with no on-call or weekend work required.
Our MSK service spans 11 community sites with strong links to local acute hospitals and a wide range of referral sources. We also provide specialist services in Hand Therapy, Pelvic Health, and Amputee Rehabilitation.
For an informal chat, please contact Cara O'Rourke, Head of MSK Physiotherapy Service T: 07901 640822 E: cara.orourke@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
As a Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal MSK) Band 6you will work as an integral part of the Warminster Outpatient Physiotherapy Team, to provide team leadership and specialist assessment and treatment of patients with MSK conditions. To independently manage a caseload by delivering a range of treatments in line with best practice guidelines. Participating in and coordinating the supervision and training of team members and continually evaluating and improving the service.
Please see the attached Job description for the full list.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- 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 a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Essential
- HCPC Registered
- BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- MSK work based training
- Evidence of on-going CPD / Reflective Practice in-line with job role
- Band 5 Level Rotations
- Experience of NHS working
- Experience in treating own caseload of MSK Patients
- Participation in delivering training / mentorship / supervision
- Delivering class based treatment
- Clinical and/or operational audits
- Supervision of Students / Juniors
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to keep legible and accurate records
- Ability to communicate with individuals with communication difficulties and patients requiring a translator
- Excellent organisational skills including time management, appropriate delegation, integration of non-clinical work into busy clinical schedule
- Ability to manage a varied and sometimes unpredictable caseload
- Ability to make clinically reasoned judgements and diagnosis on a variety of MSK conditions
- Ability to work as a sole practitioner and seek appropriate advice / guidance when required
- Ability to appropriately manage / onward refer patients with non-musculoskeletal presentations
- Well-developed assessment and treatment skills including manual therapy, exercise prescription, directing a class
- Presentation and teaching skills which can be utilised for In-Service Training / External Training
- IT Skills including the use of Outlook, Patient Administration Systems, Imaging Viewers, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams and video consulting.
- Ability to work integrally within a team, including taking direction and leading team activities where appropriate.
Desirable
- MCSP
- Accredited MSK Training
- Accredited specialist training (Acupuncture / Clinical Pilates)
- MSc level learning
- Management training
- Experience of B6 level working
- Experience of working as a sole practitioner in Satellite Clinics
- Experience of working in a community hospital based service
- Experience in team leadership
- Ability to treat highly complex patient presentations autonomously
- Knowledge of Human Resources / Policy / Procedure associated with people management
Other requirements:
- Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
- Ability to attend service and departmental meetings held at various locations.
- Car driver with access to vehicle and appropriately insured
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- 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 a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Essential
- HCPC Registered
- BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- MSK work based training
- Evidence of on-going CPD / Reflective Practice in-line with job role
- Band 5 Level Rotations
- Experience of NHS working
- Experience in treating own caseload of MSK Patients
- Participation in delivering training / mentorship / supervision
- Delivering class based treatment
- Clinical and/or operational audits
- Supervision of Students / Juniors
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to keep legible and accurate records
- Ability to communicate with individuals with communication difficulties and patients requiring a translator
- Excellent organisational skills including time management, appropriate delegation, integration of non-clinical work into busy clinical schedule
- Ability to manage a varied and sometimes unpredictable caseload
- Ability to make clinically reasoned judgements and diagnosis on a variety of MSK conditions
- Ability to work as a sole practitioner and seek appropriate advice / guidance when required
- Ability to appropriately manage / onward refer patients with non-musculoskeletal presentations
- Well-developed assessment and treatment skills including manual therapy, exercise prescription, directing a class
- Presentation and teaching skills which can be utilised for In-Service Training / External Training
- IT Skills including the use of Outlook, Patient Administration Systems, Imaging Viewers, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams and video consulting.
- Ability to work integrally within a team, including taking direction and leading team activities where appropriate.
Desirable
- MCSP
- Accredited MSK Training
- Accredited specialist training (Acupuncture / Clinical Pilates)
- MSc level learning
- Management training
- Experience of B6 level working
- Experience of working as a sole practitioner in Satellite Clinics
- Experience of working in a community hospital based service
- Experience in team leadership
- Ability to treat highly complex patient presentations autonomously
- Knowledge of Human Resources / Policy / Procedure associated with people management
Other requirements:
- Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
- Ability to attend service and departmental meetings held at various locations.
- Car driver with access to vehicle and appropriately insured
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Person Specification
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
