Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Chronic Pain

The closing date is 09 November 2025

This is an exciting opportunity for a physiotherapist to join our persistent pain team. You will work alongside our other long term conditions services including ME/CFS and Long Covid, making us a truly multidisciplinary team. Working to identify client-centred needs to ensure progress through the appropriate care pathway.

You will work as an integral member of the pain management team to provide an inter-disciplinary approach for patients with complex chronic pain. Working as an autonomous practitioner to manage your own caseload of patients with complex musculoskeletal and chronic pain conditions. The post will include the opportunity to develop clinical, supervision, group facilitation and teaching skills.

HIOW healthcare foundation Trust is a large local provider of high quality pain management services for patients with persistent pain in the Southampton, South East Hampshire, Fareham & Gosport and Portsmouth area. The clinical team is made up of psychologists, nurses, OT and doctors alongside physiotherapists. As a wider service we offer regular education, training and supervision and these activities reflect the nature of a truly multidisciplinary expert team.

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• To meet the needs of patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. Care is based on comprehensive assessment, ensures continuity and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive and evidence-based and which promotes independence.
  
• To work as an integral member of the pain management team to provide an inter-disciplinary approach to the management of complex chronic pain clients.
  
• To manage own caseload of patients with complex musculoskeletal and chronic pain conditions.
  
• Provide advanced clinical assessment and evidence-based management and treatment for these patients.
  
• To work as an autonomous practitioner without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review and MDT meetings. Access to advice and support from a specialist physiotherapist is available if required, clinical work is not routinely evaluated.
  
• To deliver advanced, personalised physiotherapy treatment to patients with highly complex biopsychosocial presentations as individual appointments and group sessions.
  
• To participate in CPD and other developmental activities.
  
• To assist in the development of colleagues of all grades through teaching, supervision and advice and through the in-service training program. This may include supervision of health improvement practitioners / students.
  

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

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• Degree or equivalent diploma in physiotherapy
  
• Physiotherapist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council UK
  
• *Physiotherapist - Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
  
• *MSc, working towards MSc or equivalent experience in a relevant clinical area
  
• *HCPC registered Non-Medical Prescriber / willingness to work towards
  

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• *Previous experience of musculoskeletal work including chronic pain conditions
  
• *Post qualification experience as a physiotherapist
  
• *Portfolio evidence of continuous professional development
  
• *Experience of working with chronic pain patients utilising pain management strategies
  
• *Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
  
• *Experience in delivering health care advice and guidance to patients in a group setting
  
• *Experience of involvement in service developments, service evaluation and audit
  
• *Broad knowledge and experience of MSK though static or rotational physiotherapy roles
  
• *Sound knowledge of activity / exercise based therapeutic rehabilitation
  
• *Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession Knowledge of understanding and respect the work of other health care team members and professionals
  
• *Understand infection control procedures Understanding of personal health and safety responsibilities
  
• *Good understanding of the meaning of Improved Working Lives
  
• *Broad base of health care experience through student placements and previous posts
  
• *Experience of working in a community based out-patient department
  
• *Experience of teaching (e.g., colleagues, other health care professionals)
  
• *Knowledge of pain management intervention
  
• *Experience in line managing and supervising staff
  

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)

£47,810 to £54,710 a year (based on full time hours)

Permanent

Part-time

348-CSS-9543

St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)