About this role
Job summary
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. 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 Centr
Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 MSK Physiotherapist, you'll help patients overcome pain and improve movement, providing specialist musculoskeletal assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for outstanding outcomes. You'll manage a complex caseload, supervise junior staff, and contribute to quality improvement initiatives. The role involves delivering evidence-based interventions, supporting learning and development, and ensuring efficient care delivery. Suitable candidates should be HCPC registered, possess demonstrable MSK experience, and have strong clinical reasoning. Experience with audits, service evaluation, and training is essential.
About us
HCRG Care Group is a leading provider of community health services in the UK. Established in 2006, they work with healthcare commissioners to transform services emphasizing experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. HCRG Care Group offers a range of services, including community health and care services, primary care, urgent care, sexual health, and MSK services. Their mission is to transform lives by transforming health and care, guided by values of care, thought, and action. The organization is committed to equal opportunities and a just culture, with services rated as 'good' or 'outstanding'.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Package Description: 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.
Job Summary
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 lifes 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 youre 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 [email protected] .
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. 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As youd 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.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
Recruitment Enquiries
For support with your application or any recruitment related questions, please contact Karen Rees, Recruitment Advisor, at [email protected] or on 07919 118944.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registered Physiotherapist with a BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy. Demonstrable MSK experience within NHS or comparable settings required.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Salisbury
SP1 3NR
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)