Team Lead MSK Physiotherapist | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS health service in London seeks an MSK physiotherapist to provide evidence-based care to patients. Join a team of experts and contribute to innovative patient care while managing a varied caseload. Benefits include career development and flexible working options. This role requires a minimum of three years of experience in the musculoskeletal field and NHS experience is essential.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Employee recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Membership options for onsite leisure facilities

Qualifications

• Minimum three years relevant experience in the musculoskeletal field.
• NHS experience is essential.
• Able to provide excellent and evidence-based care.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for all aspects of your work as an autonomous practitioner.
• Provide comprehensive therapy assessment and diagnosis.
• Manage a complex caseload and service delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Clinical reasoning

Evidence-based practice

Education

NHS experience

Minimum three years experience at Band 6 level

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an MSK physiotherapist who is: - Able to provide excellent and evidence based care to patients - A natural leader; a clinician that follows their initiative and is able to think and work “outside the box” - A team-player someone who is willing to go the extra mile, where necessary, to deliver.

You would join a diverse team of physiotherapists, assistants, clinical specialists and the lead clinical academic for therapies. We are a secondary care outpatient MSK service, accepting consultant referrals from within ICHT. Our 3 hospital sites are: St Mary’s Hospital – a Major Trauma Centre, Charing Cross Hospital– a Specialist Elective Centre and Hammersmith hospital– our Rheumatology and occupational health base.

Role and setting

The clinical caseload will offer exposure to a variety of simple and complex MSK presentations. You will rotate across sites and specialist MSK clinics specifically designed to upskill band 7s. We have a new physio occupational health service, the team leads manage this caseload to gain exposure to first contact type of referrals.

Responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• To provide comprehensive and specialist therapy assessment and diagnosis for patients with a range of highly complex presentations, by utilising advanced clinical reasoning, evidence-based knowledge, investigative and analytical skills and specialist assessment techniques.
• To plan and organise time efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time. To be accountable for the designated area of work.
• To flexibly manage responsibilities for own complex caseload, service delivery and teaching commitments. To decide priorities for own work, balancing other patient related and professional demands and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the teams as a whole.
• As a lead member of the department, ensure teaching programmes and clinical education / supervision meet the needs of more junior staff’s education and development to ensure that a specialist knowledge of intervention is acquired at all levels. To develop and conduct local in-service and MDT training.
• To take a lead in the development of the specialist clinical area/team and develop objectives and support prioritisation of projects for the team.
• To ensure own and direct reports’ Personal Development Plans (PDP) are in line with therapies and trust objectives.

Experience and qualifications

The successful candidate will have minimum three years relevant, recent experience at Band 6 level (or equivalent) in the musculoskeletal field. NHS experience is essential. You will be part of the inpatient orthopaedic weekend rota with compensatory rest-days mid-week. Flexible working/ secondment contracts may be considered.

Benefits and culture

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Equality and contact

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

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.

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025