# Senior Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-musculoskeletal-physiotherapist/cd5d6d59-5b5e-451e-a1c9-75c61e6a4703 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-musculoskeletal-physiotherapist/cd5d6d59-5b5e-451e-a1c9-75c61e6a4703.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-22T16:30:49.854Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Therapies/Therapies-v8175143 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8175143?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a substantive, full-time position for a highly motivated Band 6 Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist to join our dynamic team based at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, the first Academic Health Science Centre in the UK. We are absolutely committed to ensuring that our patients have the best possible experience within our hospitals. We place a high value on treating all patients, customers and colleagues with respect and dignity, and seek people who strive for excellence and innovation in all that they do. This rotational post includes opportunities to develop skills and expertise in the upper and lower quadrants, complex patients, hand therapy and pelvic health. You will be joining a large team of band 5, 6 and 7 therapists which includes a diverse mix of staff including; rotational physiotherapists, specialist hand therapy occupational therapists, specialist pelvic health physiotherapists and therapy assistants and technicians.  Additionally we have a well-established team of clinical specialists, orthopaedic and pain physiotherapy practitioners. We have a novel way of developing staff, utilising an innovative new patient model within clinical teams, each led by our Clinical specialist practitioners. The various teams will offer exposure to a variety of clinical presentations including; upper- and lower limb conditions, spinal pain, rheumatological and persistent pain. ### Main duties of the job You will maintain a high level of clinical caseload and exposure to musculoskeletal adult presentations. Clinical caseload involves both 1;1 sessions with patient where we see 80-90% face to face and only a small virtual caseload is maintained. Additionally you will be responsible for running exercises classes and hydrotherapy to patients groups. we run a 8 month rotation basis within Musculoskeletal areas, Hand therapy and pelvic health. in musculoskeletal we focus on upper limb/ lower limb, spinal, chronic pain and complex presentations. Non clinically you will be responsible for supervising band 5 staff members, physiotherapy assistants and students throughout the year. There is opportunity to lead on CPD, to run projects for service improvement and develop research skills. All development is encouraged and supported to ensure you are continuing with reaching improved skills/ knowlegde and behaviours for the four pillars of Clinical/ Education/ Leadership and Research. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant physiotherapy specialities and clinical settings - Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team - To have participated in service development projects. - Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants. - Experience of supervision of students/ physiotherapy assistants, with development of basic supervision skills. - Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital - To have undertaken audit and/or research, either within area of physiotherapy speciality or as part of the MDT **Desirable** - Previous experience in the NHS as a qualified physiotherapis - Previous senior physiotherapist experience in relevant post - Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care - Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy - State registration with the Health Professions Council. - Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio - Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity. **Desirable** - APLS - Membership of CSP special interest groups relevant to speciality ## Documents - [frf form (pdf, 240.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10477840) - [job description (pdf, 848.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10477839) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.