We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Hands – Band 7 to join our friendly Outpatient Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service at HCRG Care Group. In this rewarding role, you will be at the heart of delivering expert physiotherapy care for patients with a wide range of hand conditions, using your advanced skills to assess, treat, and guide them towards recovery and improved function.Working as an autonomous practitioner, you will manage your own specialist caseload, offering highly individualised, evidence-based interventions and clear, supportive advice. Your expertise will also help shape the quality of care we deliver, as you provide clinical leadership within your locality ensuring our team maintains consistent, best-practice standards that make a real difference to patients' lives.If you're ready to bring your passion for hand therapy, your commitment to excellent care, and your leadership skills to a service that values both people and professionalism, we'd love to hear from you.Our service is well respected, and we have developed strong relationships with local GP practices, Orthopaedic and Rheumatology consultants, midwives as well as other healthcare professionals. Patients can self-refer to our service, with FCP and other healthcare professionals within the GP practices, who also refer patients to our service.We are committed to staff development and support our team with both formal and informal learning with in HCRG Care Group.For an informal discussion please contact Cara O'Rourke, Head of MSK Physiotherapy ServiceViewings of the departments welcome prior to post closing.Mobile: 07901640822Email: cara.o'rourke@hcrgcaregroup.comPackage DescriptionAs a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Hands - Band 7 you will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Free tea and coffee at your base locationMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counsellingAccess to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning EnterpriseAn open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality CommissionMain ResponsibilitiesTo provide excellent leadership to all staff within the defined Community MSK Teams named above.Use data and soft intelligence to deliver and enhance performance, meeting and surpassing all key performance indicators.To work in conjunction with other Band 7 clinicians to act as a point of contact for stakeholders and referrersTo contribute to the strategic planning including delivery of agreed business objectives.To support policy changes and implementation within the Community setting.Lead locally agreed service changes.Work with other Locality Group Leaders to ensure a consistent approach to delivery across the division/service.To continually measure and evaluate own work and current practices through the use of evidence based practice projects, audit and outcome measuresMonitor the patient experience and constantly strive for improvement.Support the Patient Safety and Quality (PSQ) team to embed a culture of excellent governance.Support the development of teams to deliver a clinically safe and effective service.Role model clinical competency by maintaining own professional development.Implement processes for sharing learning from complaints and incidents.Create an open and transparent culture within the team, which supports improvement and innovation.Identify individual learning needs.Ensure that appraisals are undertaken in line with organisational policy.Work with colleagues from across the directorate to ensure consistency of workforce development competencies and delivery.Ensure all caseload in MSK is identified and addressed within the policies and within agreed timescales and key performance indicators.Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilitiesThe Ideal CandidateEssentialRegistered Allied Health Professional (AHP) with active HCPC registrationBSc in Physiotherapy (or equivalent) with postgraduate-level education/training in hand therapy (e.g. BAHT)MSc or equivalent evidence of advanced musculoskeletal physiotherapy knowledgeProven leadership, supervision, and mentoring experienceSkilled in pathway development, service improvement, and multi-agency collaborationStrong track record in managing complex situations, achieving KPIs, and delivering change agendasAdvanced assessment, clinical reasoning, and a wide range of physiotherapeutic skillsCompetence in clinical governance, risk, and safety management, including investigationsExcellent communication, interpersonal, and organisational skillsAbility to prioritise, delegate, and work flexibly under pressureConfident with IT systems for records, reporting, and presentationsFinancial, workforce, and performance management awarenessMotivational leader with emotional intelligence, resilience, and creativity in service developmentFull UK driving licence with suitably insured vehicleDesirableMCSP membershipAdvanced hand therapy training (BAHT Level 2 or equivalent)Leadership or management qualification (or working towards)Non-medical prescribing and/or IRMER trainingExperience in formal teaching, HR processes, and cross-site workingRecent NHS experienceInterest in further MSc-level study in a relevant fieldPlease see attached job description for a full list of responsibilitiesAbout The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.