Band 8b Consultant Physiotherapist

NHS; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Band 8b Consultant Physiotherapist for a part-time position in Plymouth. The role involves providing expert clinical care to service personnel, developing treatment plans, and working alongside a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will hold a relevant degree and be registered with the HCPC. This role offers significant employee benefits, including free parking and access to a gym.

Benefits

Free parking

Access to gym

Professional registration fees re-imbursed

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree or Graduate diploma in Physiotherapy required.
• Clinical experience at an advanced practice level.
• Registration with relevant professional body is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant-level clinical expertise to service personnel.
• Assess highly complex cases using various methods.
• Produce individual treatment and intervention plans for patients.

Skills

Consultative clinical expertise

Team collaboration

Diagnostic ultrasound

Injection therapy

Adaptability

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

MSc in related clinical area

HCPC registration

Membership of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Accreditation as Advanced Practitioner

Job description

Overview

Go back Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services) Band 8b Consultant Physiotherapist. The closing date is 22 September 2025.

Here at Regional Rehabilitation Unit (RRU), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel. We are looking to recruit a Band 8b Consultant Physiotherapist with vision, substantial clinical experience, and excellent team focus, who can adapt to a unique organisation and is able to deliver the highest standards of professional practice.

Are you looking for a new challenge and would like to add military rehabilitation healthcare to your career portfolio? This could be the role for you!

This is a part time position, offering 16 working hours per week.

You will feel valued as a Consultant Physiotherapist with RRU, receiving access to outstanding rewards and employee benefits including:

• Free parking
• Access to gym
• Professional registration fees re-imbursed
• An inclusive working environment
• Learning and development opportunities

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Main duties of the job

You will provide consultant-level clinical expertise to service personnel referred to the regional rehabilitation unit, working closely with sport and exercise medicine (SEM) doctor and physiotherapist colleagues. You will also contribute to the strategic development of Defence Rehabilitation and ensure local implementation of relevant national policy.

About us

Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

Job responsibilities

Duties will include, but not limited to:

• Assessing highly complex cases using a range of assessment/diagnostic methods and reach valid, reliable and comprehensive patient and client-centred conclusions appropriate to needs, context and culture.
• Producing individual treatment and intervention plans for patients with MSKI who require in-depth diagnosis and management. Typically this could include patients with ACL lesions, acute and persistent shoulder, neck or low back injuries / pain, ankle inversion injuries, and training injuries. However the caseload is very mixed, and frequently interesting.
• Providing training and expert clinical advice within the RRU ensuring that it operates to the highest possible standards of clinical practice.
• You will be able to refer for fast track - imaging and surgery, as well as standard NHS referrals.

Please read the attached job description and person specification prior to applying to fully understand all the duties required.

Selection Process

At application stage you will be assessed against your Experience:

• Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and previous skills and experience.
• Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
• Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use. https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-recruitment/

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Technical Skills:

• NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
• NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
• NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
• NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment

You will also be required to provide a short (5 mins) presentation on "briefly explaining how you meet the 4 pillars of advanced practice at consultant level". A single powerpoint slide may be used but you will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to present with a slide.

Further Information

NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework - https://www.msg.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/KSF-Handbook.pdf

The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail].

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree or Graduate diploma (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy.
• Post-registration Master of Science (MSc) in related clinical area.
• Qualified and competent in diagnostic ultrasound and injection therapy.

Experience

• Clinical experience at advanced practice level (ideally B8a or equivalent).
• Evidence of an up-to-date Advanced Practice portfolio.
• Presentation skills at local and national level.
• Please provide your membership registration number.
• You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
• Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.

Registrations and Memberships

• Health and Care Professions Council Registered (HCPC).
• Membership of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
• Accreditation as an Advanced Practitioner with Health Education England (HEE) Centre of Advanced Practice.

Provide a CV

• Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question; you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
• Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
• Please use double spacing where possible.

Behavior Statement

• Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment or discrimination from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
• Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Address

Regional Rehabilitation Unit (RRU) Old Gymnasium

£62,215 to £72,293 a yearPro-rata. *Pay award pending.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

K0003-25-0386

Job locations

Regional Rehabilitation Unit (RRU) Old Gymnasium