# Wessex Rehab - Specialist Physiotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/wessex-rehab-specialist-physiotherapist/a8eacda6-d95e-4c63-9038-5535cd9a1487 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/wessex-rehab-specialist-physiotherapist/a8eacda6-d95e-4c63-9038-5535cd9a1487.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Salisbury - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata if part time - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-13T09:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-19T15:03:20.053Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Salisbury/Salisbury_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Rehabilitation/Rehabilitation-v7985394 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7985394?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview At Wessex Rehab, we go beyond standard outpatient Physiotherapy rehabilitation. Within the spacious facility you’ll find a large gym and private treatment areas, as well as our more unusual therapy spaces including a bouldering wall, industrial workshop and hydrotherapy pool. Patients referred to our facility have often suffered significant; life changing physical injuries and have undergone advanced and interesting surgical reconstruction. As part of the multi-disciplinary Lower Limb and Chronic Pain specialist team, you’ll treat patients with a range of injuries and conditions affecting Lower Limb and Chronic Pain and will deliver tailored rehabilitation programmes in both 1:1 and group environments. It is essential that you enjoy working with other therapists and approach complex problems with optimism and flexibility. The post holder will spend multiple sessions per week with each service user and will be expected to guide them from the acute stage, through advanced rehab and toward long term goals including return to work and sports participation. Please follow the link for a Virtual Tour of Wessex Rehab: https://youtu.be/ynkAv5kljV8 ### Main duties of the job To work as part of the integrated complex lower limb trauma and chronic pain multidisciplinary service at Salisbury District Hospital, alongside the complex upper limb service. Team working and cross-cover across Wessex Rehab Services are key aspects of the role. To provide specialist physiotherapy to adult patients under the care of multiple consultants and primary care providers, including Plastic Surgery and Orthopaedics. The post holder will work autonomously, delivering expert assessment and treatment for a varied caseload of acute and chronic lower limb conditions, including hip, knee and ankle trauma, fractures, complex orthoplastic reconstruction and lower limb amputation. Within the chronic pain team, the post holder will complete complex assessments and provide individual and group interventions for patients with persistent pain conditions, including back pain, using an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach. Patients may present with impairments in mobility, range of movement and functional performance arising from a range of conditions and mechanisms. The post holder will use advanced clinical reasoning to assess and manage these complex presentations. The role requires knowledge of post-operative protocols and the ability to develop personalised treatment plans using evidence-based physiotherapy interventions, including exercise therapy, gait re-education, functional rehabilitation and appropriate adjuncts. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities ## Job Details At Wessex Rehab, we go beyond standard outpatient Physiotherapy rehabilitation. Within the spacious facility you’ll find a large gym and private treatment areas, as well as our more unusual therapy spaces including a bouldering wall, industrial workshop and hydrotherapy pool. Patients referred to our facility have often suffered significant; life changing physical injuries and have undergone advanced and interesting surgical reconstruction. As part of the multi-disciplinary Lower Limb and Chronic Pain specialist team, you’ll treat patients with a range of injuries and conditions affecting Lower Limb and Chronic Pain and will deliver tailored rehabilitation programmes in both 1:1 and group environments. It is essential that you enjoy working with other therapists and approach complex problems with optimism and flexibility. The post holder will spend multiple sessions per week with each service user and will be expected to guide them from the acute stage, through advanced rehab and toward long term goals including return to work and sports participation. Please follow the link for a Virtual Tour of Wessex Rehab: https://youtu.be/ynkAv5kljV8 ## Job Description To work as part of the integrated complex lower limb trauma and chronic pain multidisciplinary service at Salisbury District Hospital, alongside the complex upper limb service. Team working and cross-cover across Wessex Rehab Services are key aspects of the role. To provide specialist physiotherapy to adult patients under the care of multiple consultants and primary care providers, including Plastic Surgery and Orthopaedics. The post holder will work autonomously, delivering expert assessment and treatment for a varied caseload of acute and chronic lower limb conditions, including hip, knee and ankle trauma, fractures, complex orthoplastic reconstruction and lower limb amputation. Within the chronic pain team, the post holder will complete complex assessments and provide individual and group interventions for patients with persistent pain conditions, including back pain, using an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach. Patients may present with impairments in mobility, range of movement and functional performance arising from a range of conditions and mechanisms. The post holder will use advanced clinical reasoning to assess and manage these complex presentations. The role requires knowledge of post-operative protocols and the ability to develop personalised treatment plans using evidence-based physiotherapy interventions, including exercise therapy, gait re-education, functional rehabilitation and appropriate adjuncts. ## Responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities ## Person Specification ### Education **Essential** - minimum 2 years post graduate experience in a healthcare environment. - Relevant short post graduate specialist courses - HCPC Registration **Desirable** - Membership of Special Interest Groups ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of evidence-based approaches to pain management - Knowledge of assessment techniques of gait and lower limb injuries - Ability to communicate complex information to patients, carers and MDT **Desirable** - Knowledge of acute management of burn injuries ### Experience **Essential** - Range of broad post-graduate therapy experience including at least 3 different clinical areas - Experience of rehabilitation of adults with physical disabilities and or long term pain - Evidence of recent and ongoing CPD **Desirable** - Experience of the therapy management of complex conditions, including burns and poly-trauma. - Experience of a chronic pain management service ## Documents - [facts about salisbury (pdf, 214.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1618) - [wessex rehab - specialist physiotherapist - lower limb and chronic pain team jd (pdf, 440.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10292444) ## 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.