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Essential
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- Personal qualities
Demonstrates a commitment to own professional development
- Personal qualities
Committed to team working
- Personal qualities
Proactive attitude
- Skills and Abilities
Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to plan, prioritise and delegate
- Skills and Abilities
Excellent organisational skills
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Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
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Ability to travel between sites
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Ability to effectively perform patient assessments and interventions, including manual therapy and therapeutic handling
- Skills and Abilities
Experience of supervision of other staff e.g. assistants/technical instructors/students
- Skills and abilities
Knowledge of clinical Governance and its application to Physiotherapy
- Skills and abilities
Ability to cope in a stressful environment undertaking moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities
- Skills and abilities
Competent Information Technology skills
- Knowledge and Experience
Demonstrates a breadth of experience across core areas at band 5 (or equivalent)
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working as part of a Physiotherapy team and/or multidisciplinary team
- Knowledge and Experience
Evidence of previous experience and participation in audit
- Knowledge and Experience
Contributing to clinical education of less experienced staff, students or assistants
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of assessing and treating musculoskeletal conditions
- Knowledge and Experience
Clinical Supervision of students and assistant staff
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience or knowledge of working in a community setting
- Knowledge and Experience
Previous post-graduate musculoskeletal experience
- Education and qualifications
Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
- Education and qualifications
Health and Care Professions Council registered
- Education and qualifications
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development relevant to speciality
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and abilities
Ability to effect and manage change
- Skills and abilities
Leadership Skills
- Knowledge and Experience
Previous experience at Band 6
- Education and qualifications
Involvement in Relevant Special Clinical Interest Groups
Job overview
Are you a Physiotherapist with HCPC registration, looking to specialise in musculoskeletal physiotherapy? Or perhaps you’re looking for a change in scenery as a senior Physiotherapist?
Join our large and inspirational Adult Therapies Service at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust as a musculoskeletal rotational Physiotherapist in Bristol, working alongside other physiotherapists, occupational therapists and therapy technicians.
Main duties of the job
Within this role, you will rotate across a variety of specialities, including:
- General outpatients
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Aquatic Physiotherapy
- Pain management services
- Fracture clinic
- Gym rehabilitation
- Pelvic health
- Hand rehabilitation
- Haemophilia
- Occupational health
- Rheumatology
Successful applicants will, autonomously manage their own caseload, working closely with other outpatient team members and mentor band 5 colleagues, therapy technicians and undergraduate students.
During your rotation, you’ll be building relationships with new teams with unique benefits such as:
- Support by highly skilled and experienced band 7s and 8a’s
- Supportive, integrated team working
- Robust in-service training programme
- Research opportunities
- Protected, regular clinical supervision and annual development reviews
- Service development and QI projects
- Support for appropriate external training courses.
- Cake rotas
- Secondments / career breaks
Want to hear more about the benefits of working at UHBW? Click here for more staff benefits: https://www.uhbwcareers.nhs.uk/staff-benefits
We encourage you to get in touch with the Musculoskeletal Therapy outpatient Pathway Lead – Ellie Gardner, for an informal chat on 0117 342 2201 or email Eleanor.gardner2@uhbw.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached document for a full Job Description and Person Specification - B6 Rotational Physiotherapist 0.5WTE, fixed term contract.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Musculoskeletal Rotational Physiotherapist with University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust in Bristol, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata for part time roles. The contract type is 9 months (FTC/Secondment - 0.5 WTE fixed term contract, 9 months). The application deadline is 29 Oct 2026.
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