The Department
The physiotherapy team at Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing department, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in Tower Hamlets
and beyond.
The Position
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated physiotherapist to join our expanding service. You will support this innovative team with excellent clinical and team leadership skills that deliver high quality patient centered care and support the service leads to deliver department objectives and service developments.
The Team
You will work as part of a large MSK department that includes band 5, 6, 7, advanced practice and consultant physiotherapists who work across primary and secondary care.
The Role
Your primary role will be managing a mix of primary and secondary care referrals, supporting the development of junior staff, participating in teaching programmes and supporting senior staff with service development.
To provide specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapy treatment to outpatients as part of the overall therapy provision. The post holder willbe responsible fortheir own caseload providing thorough clinical assessment, planning treatment andappropriate dischargefrom the service adapting practice to suit the needs of the patient. Toprovide clinical supervision and appraisal to junior staff, therapyassistantsand students.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Sep 2025