Physiotherapist

The closing date is 11 December 2025

At Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel. Do you have excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise your workload? Are you a team worker with the capability to use your own initiative?

If the answer is yes, then we are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our encouraging and welcoming team of dedicated military and civilian healthcare professionals and administrative staff located at Minley Medical Centre.

The post is a part time fixed term appointment until 1st November 2026 working 18.5 hours per week.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• NHS Pension
• On-site parking

Main duties of the job

The job role of the physiotherapist working within defence is to provide comprehensive and professional physiotherapy/rehabilitation service for entitled personnel. This includes undertaking highly skilled and specialist work in the Musculo-skeletal/sports and training injury area.

To provide a positive caring environment, in which patients can expect a high-quality professional service.

This will include undertaking highly skilled and specialist work, peer review and support to other physiotherapists within Aldershot Combined Medical Practice. The role will be based at Minley Medical Centre but there will be an expectation to work at Aldershot Medical Centre as and when required.

About us

Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:

• Performing highly skilled physiotherapeutic assessment of patients referred by Consultants, General Practitioners and other Healthcare Professionals and self-referrals with diverse presentations and complex and acute/chronic physical conditions and sports injuries. To use clinical reasoning skills to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis.
• Formulating, developing and delivering a specialised individualised treatment programme based upon evidence-based practice, manual assessment and appropriate clinical reasoning.
• Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for assessment and treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximise their rehabilitation potential.
• Developing and maintaining of your own personal, Service and Professional Standards at the highest attainable levels through continuing professional development activities and maintenance of a portfolio.
• The provision of complex clinical reports to supply clinical prognosis and onward referrals to other health professionals.
• Take part in a variety of CPD activities and regular in-service training sessions.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.