Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 162-7075-AV
- Employer
- Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King George Hospital
- Town
- Ilford
- Salary
- £23,796 - £26,495 Per Annum Inclusive for 15hrs Per Week
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
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Band 8a Extended Scope Practitioner Physiotherapist (MSK)
Band 8a
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Job overview
King George Hospital, Queens Hospital and Satellite Clinics
Extended Scope Practitioner - MSK
Are you an experienced physiotherapist ready to take the next step in your career? We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic Extended Scope Physiotherapist to join our forward-thinking team, serving a vibrant and diverse community.
About the Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to shape service delivery and make a real impact in the community.
As an ESP, you will:
- Lead on advanced clinical assessment, triage, and management of MSK conditions
- Work autonomously, using your expert knowledge to support evidence-based decision-making
- Engage in collaborative working with GPs, consultants, and wider MDTs
- Support and mentor junior staff and contribute to service development
What We Offer
- A supportive, inclusive working environment with strong links to primary and secondary care
- Ongoing CPD and opportunities to contribute to clinical leadership and service transformation
- A varied caseload in a richly diverse population that will stretch and grow your clinical skills.
Main duties of the job
What We’re Looking For
- HCPC-registered Physiotherapist with significant MSK experience
- Proven competence in advanced assessment and clinical reasoning
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- A passion for working in diverse communities and reducing health inequalities
Join us in a service where your expertise is valued, your ideas welcomed, and your development supported. Help us shape the future of community MSK services.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5926. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MSc in MSK Physiotherapy or relevant M level education
- Post graduate training in MSK Physiotherapy
Skills/Abilities
Desirable criteria
- Injection therapy
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous experience as a band 7 MSK physiotherapist post holder.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification or lecturing experience.
- Student supervision
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Coughlan
- Job title
- Therapy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Rebecca Coughlan, email [email protected]
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