Extended Scope Practitioner and Clinical Service Lead for MSK

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health trust is looking for an experienced Extended Scope Physiotherapist to join the Hillingdon Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service. This role involves providing advanced clinical expertise, leading community care initiatives, and supporting inclusive clinical environments. Ideal candidates must be HCPC-registered with extensive experience in adult services and a strong commitment to evidence-based interventions.

Qualifications

• Extensive post-graduate experience in adult services.
• Proven ability to lead teams within the community setting.
• Advanced clinical skills in patient-centred assessment and intervention.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist MSK physiotherapy services with advanced assessments.
• Lead on service evaluation and clinical audits.
• Deliver specialist interventions ensuring evidence-based care.

Skills

Team leadership

Advanced clinical assessment

Patient-centered care

Communication

Education

HCPC Registration

Physiotherapy degree

Job description

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Extended Scope Physiotherapist to join the Hillingdon Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service. This pivotal role offers the chance to work at the forefront of community care, providing advanced clinical expertise and professional leadership.

The Clinical Service Lead will be expected to lead and manage the Community MSK Physiotherapy Service, including the provision of specialist Pelvic and Women’s Health Physiotherapy, Vestibular Rehabilitation, or other MSK-related teams.

The role ensures delivery of high-quality, personalised, and accessible services to patients who meet the clinical referral criteria, in line with NWL ICS commissioned service levels.

You will play a key role in advancing the team’s clinical practice, ensuring delivery of evidence-based interventions through direct patient care, advanced assessment, clinical supervision, training, and education.

The role also involves contributing to service development by leading audits, research, and service evaluation to ensure practice remains responsive to the needs of patients, families, and carers.

Applicants must be HCPC-registered Physiotherapists with extensive post-graduate experience in adult services, advanced clinical skills in patient-centred assessment and intervention, and proven ability to lead teams within the community setting.

The Extended Scope Practitioner will work as part of the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy service, along with an operational team lead, to deliver advanced clinical service within the community.

This post will involve undertaking comprehensive assessments, including the interpretation and integration of complex clinical information from a variety of sources such as advanced diagnostic tests, imaging, and clinical examination.

You will provide specialist interventions for individuals, their families, and carers, ensuring evidence-based, patient-centred care.

Main Responsibilities

• To provide a highly specialist MSK physiotherapy service, including advanced assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, implementation, and evaluation of outcomes for patients referred to the Community MSK Physiotherapy Service.
• To utilise extended scope skills where appropriate, such as requesting diagnostic imaging, administering injections, prescribing (if qualified), and providing advanced clinical interventions to support timely and effective patient management.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users, and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by promoting a supportive and inclusive clinical environment.
• To provide clinical supervision, mentorship, and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist within MSK physiotherapy.
• To lead and participate in service evaluation, clinical audit, and research to ensure continuous quality improvement and evidence-based practice.

We're passionate about delivering safe and effective care in a community setting or in the individual's own home. Our service users are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing excellent clinical care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our service users, colleagues, teams and the Trust.