Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 8b Consultant Physiotherapist

The closing date is 09 June 2025

Job summary

Here at the Regional Rehabilitation Unit (RRU), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

We are looking to recruit a Band 8b Consultant Physiotherapist with vision, substantial clinical experience, and an excellent team focus, who can adapt to a unique organisation and is able to deliver the highest standards of professional practice.

Are you are looking for a new challenge and would like to add military rehabilitation healthcare to your career portfolio? This could be the role for you!

This is a part time position, offering 17 working hours per week.

You will feel valued as a Consultant Physiotherapist within RRU, receiving access to outstanding rewards and employee benefits including:

NHS Pension
Parking
Access to gym
Professional Registration Fees Reimbursed
An inclusive Working Environment
Learning and Development Opportunities

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will strategically develop the non-surgical management of patients across Defence Rehabilitation and ensure local implementation of relevant national policy.

You will be expected to undertake a significant clinical caseload to a high professional standard using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience and to support other practitioners on a service-wide consultancy basis for complex cases.

About us

Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

Date posted

16 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year Pro-rata for part time.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

K0003-25-0230

Job locations

Bulford Healthcare Facility

Kandy Road

Bulford Barracks

Salisbury

SP4 9AA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

Assessing highly complex cases using a range of assessment/diagnostic methods and reach valid, reliable and comprehensive patient and client-centred conclusions appropriate to needs, context and culture.
Undertaking a detailed physical and psychosocial assessment of complex patients by using investigative and analytical skills and expert clinical reasoning in order to establish a diagnosis and implement an appropriate treatment plan.
Producing individual treatment and intervention plans for patients with highly complex needs who require in-depth diagnosis.
Providing training and expert clinical advice within the RRU ensuring that it operates to the highest possible standards of clinical practice.

Please read the attached job description and person specification prior to applying to fully understand all the duties required.

Selection Process:

At application stage you will be assessed against Experience:

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and previous skills and experience.

Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

At interview you will be assessed against the following Technical Skills:

NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment

A short (5 min) presentation will also be required at interview - How is advanced physiotherapy practice best utilised to optimise recovery from MSKI in a highly active population?.

A single PowerPoint slide may be used but you will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to present with a slide.

Further Information:

The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Please see the link to our YouTube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour-based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEpdNWKQSRI

When choosing your Behaviour/Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.