Hours available: 30
MSK Physiotherapy Services at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust are excited to recruit permanent part-time First Contact Physiotherapists/Clinical Lead Physiotherapist to join our MSK and FCP Team.
Our integrated MSK Service provides First Contact Practitioners to Calderdale GPs, as well as the Calderdale MSK Service and Outpatient Physiotherapy, working flexibly across multiple sites in Calderdale and Huddersfield.
We seek motivated and passionate individuals who can demonstrate excellent assessment, diagnostic, and clinical skills across a variety of musculoskeletal, orthopaedic, and general health conditions. Good communication, independence, and time management skills are essential.
We offer highly specialist, dedicated training across a full range of MSK conditions with support from our senior clinical team.
Eligibility: Candidates must have undergraduate and/or postgraduate experience in the NHS as a physiotherapist. Candidates must be able to attend a face-to-face interview on Wednesday, 10th September 2025.
Role: To act as a First Contact Physiotherapist within GP practices and as a clinical lead for the Physiotherapy Out-Patient Service, with responsibility for advancing evidence-based clinical practice.
Main Tasks:
1. Provide clinical expertise as a first-contact physiotherapist, making decisions about patient care, including undifferentiated conditions, with the ability to see patients without prior GP contact to establish diagnosis and management plan.
2. Progress and request investigations to facilitate diagnosis, interpret results, and determine treatment options, understanding the limitations and sensitivities of tests such as x-rays and blood tests.
3. Deliver programmes of supported patient self-management, facilitating behavioral change, physical activity, mobility, personal goals, independence, and minimizing pharmacological interventions.
4. Work within the outpatient team across various clinical areas, providing specialist physiotherapeutic assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and advice for complex conditions.
We employ over 6,500 staff delivering compassionate care across our hospitals, community sites, health centers, and patients’ homes. We also have nearly 150 volunteers. Our services include urgent and emergency care, medical, surgical, maternity, gynaecology, critical care, children’s and young people’s services, end-of-life care, outpatient, and diagnostic imaging services. Community health services include sexual health services at Calderdale Royal and local health centers like Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We are committed to modernising and investing in health services to improve quality. As NHS foundation trusts, we are public leaders driven by independent boards that respond to the needs of patients, staff, and the community. We aim to be the best, putting patients first.
For further details or informal visits, contact:
* Name: Nicola Glasby
* Job Title: Outpatient Therapy Services Manager
* Email: nicola.glasby@cht.nhs.uk
* Phone: 07823535293
Jim Francome
Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapist
jim.francome@cht.nhs.uk
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