Advanced Physiotherapist

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

The closing date is 25 February 2026

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a skilled and motivated Band 7 Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist to join our dynamic outpatient MSK service.

This role is central to delivering expert patient-centred care, improving access to advanced pathways, and shaping innovative models of community rehabilitation. You will work autonomously with complex MSK presentations, provide advanced input across our localities, and act as a role model for clinical excellence.

Alongside your clinical caseload, you will contribute to service development, lead audits and quality improvement projects, and provide mentorship and supervision to junior colleagues and students.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the forefront of advanced MSK physiotherapy practice. You’ll be part of a forward-thinking team committed to innovation, patient-centred care, and bringing physiotherapy closer to home.

We are looking for a self-motivated, reflective, and resilient clinician who can demonstrate advanced skills, leadership, and a passion for service development.

We have a total of 64.5 hours to offer. Ideally this would be one full time post (37.5 hours per week) and one part time post (27 hours per week); however we will consider flexing these hours between the two posts. Both posts offer flexibility to work across community hospitals and outpatient clinics within the Trusts localities, with site allocation agreed based on service need and candidate preference.

Independently assess, diagnose, and manage complex MSK patients using advanced clinical reasoning and make safe onward referrals. Deliver specialist MSK interventions including exercise prescription, manual therapy, education, rehab planning, and joint injections (if trained). Provide bookable escalation clinics for Band 5/6 clinicians and support their development through supervision and teaching. Contribute to service improvement, community rehab development, audits, and quality improvement projects while promoting high professional standards and evidence based practice.

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer:

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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Deliver advanced musculoskeletal physiotherapy assessment and treatment within the outpatient service.

Provide expert patient centred care to improve access to Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP) pathways and reduce waiting times.

Act as a role model for advanced physiotherapy practice across the MSK department.

Support the Consultant Physiotherapists vision of developing community based rehabilitation groups and shifting physiotherapy delivery closer to home.

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