Physiotherapy Consultant (MSK)

We are excited to offer an outstanding opportunity for an experienced, advanced practice MSK physiotherapist to join South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust as a Consultant Physiotherapist. Working alongside our established South Warwickshire Integrated Musculoskeletal Service (SWIMS), you will be the expert clinical lead for MSK services and shape care across primary, community and secondary settings.

Start date for vacancy: 01/04/2026.

• Lead and develop musculoskeletal services across the system, providing expert clinical advice to physiotherapists and physiotherapy services.
• Manage a complex clinical caseload with advanced clinical judgement, knowledge and experience.
• Demonstrate manual therapy skills and perform manual handling tasks involving patients and equipment.
• Create and develop protocols of care and design patient care pathways to provide best practice examples.
• Assess, monitor, report and manage clinical risk.
• Provide professional, effective leadership to MSK physiotherapy professionals within the Trust, acting as a role model and positive influence.
• Advocate for advanced practice and lead on the development, education and governance of these roles.
• Establish and lead on enhancing mechanisms to measure quality of MSK services, contributing to clinical governance and the corporate agenda.
• Communicate highly complex and sensitive information with empathy, enabling patients, carers and colleagues through empowerment.
• Challenge current structures, identify organisational and professional barriers limiting services, and act as a specialist resource to other professional teams within the health care community.
• Deliver strategic development of teaching and learning strategies across MSK services, identify learning needs and provide specialist training.
• Ensure practice development is evidence‑based, audit services, identify and implement changes to improve patient care, and work with pathway leads to redesign service delivery.

• HCPC registration as Physiotherapist.
• Relevant Masters Degree and postgraduate education beyond MSc level.
• Injection therapy qualification.
• Independent prescriber.
• Leadership qualification or evidence of leadership training/skills development.

• Teaching qualification.
• Working towards or attained Level 8 higher education qualification (e.g., PhD).

• Extensive specialist knowledge of the care and management of musculoskeletal patients in primary and secondary care.
• Experience leading and managing clinical teams.
• Understanding of the relevant NHS policies and their implications for local services.
• Ability to relate research findings to the clinical situation.
• Present information in a variety of formats and use data to inform reports.
• Demonstrable experience managing complex MSK cases and advanced clinical interventions.
• Proven track record in service development, including strategic planning and implementing new services or clinical pathways.

• Experience in clinical research, audits or contributions to evidence-based practice.

• Expert clinician with advanced clinical reasoning and manual therapy skills.
• Experience working within complex organisations.
• Evidence of clinical leadership skills including influencing and achieving change and professional development of others.
• Effective communication skills at all levels with a variety of audiences.
• Ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive information with empathy.
• Ability to manage a complex, diverse and demanding workload.
• Manage change and contain conflict, ensuring resolution with positive outcomes.
• Articulate a vision for musculoskeletal services.
• Experience in anatomically guided injection therapy.

• Advanced IT skills for data analysis, service reporting and presentation.

• Able to secure the co‑operation of colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to engage and foster collaborative working with stakeholders and partners within and across organisations.
• Goal‑orientated evidence of completion of tasks.
• Innovative demonstrates a creative/lateral‑thinking approach.
• Able to access expert advice and resources within organisations (network).
• Able to work outside traditional boundaries to implement a “whole system approach.”
• Commitment to maintaining professional standards and ethics.

• Access to independent means of transport.
• Able to commit to travel across South Warwickshire to provide supervision in a variety of settings as required.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered fairly and without bias.