Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist | East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Job description

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We’re looking for an exceptional Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our NoW MSK Service, within EEC.  This is a high quality, patient-centered and innovative service. This role involves assisting the team with the treatment of patients with a wide range of MSK conditions. We provide comprehensive in-service training as well as peer supervision and dedicated problem solving slots.

Flexible hours are an option for this role.  We are specifically looking for someone who is able to travel to different clinic sites across Norfolk, which will vary depending on service need, but will include Thetford. 

We look forward to meeting you at interview.

You will contribute in the delivery of high standards of health care to patients with MSK conditions in clinics providing specialist MSK assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating packages of care. To manage own caseload, which may include complex patients.

Norfolk and Waveney Community Musculoskeletal Services (NoW MSK) is a collaborative service between East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust,  and East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH), providing MSK services to patients within Norfolk and Waveney.  

The NoW MSK Service's  team comprises: Extended Scope Practitioners, First Contact Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Specialist Hand therapy Occupational Therapists, Specialist Biomechanics Podiatrists and MSK Assistant Practitioners.

We provide First Contact Practitioners from within our overall MSK structure. We work out of various venues, including; health centres; GP surgeries; community hospitals; and leisure centres.

Please note, the selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• To assess and prescribe care packages for patients with complex MSK conditions, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.

• Assessments and treatments will take the form of face to face or virtual consultations to enhance patient access to our services

• To work with all health care professionals and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless integrated service to our service users.

• Work when needed in a variety of locations – including lone working

• Engage with System One Optimisation.

• Engage with referral to discharge standard processes.

• To be aware of the demand and capacity model which will reflect workload needs at any given time.

For a full list of duties and person specifications, please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Sunday 22 Nov 2026