Overview
Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner – Salisbury
B8a Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP)
Base: Predominantly Salisbury District Hospital (with travel to South Wiltshire sites as required)
Hours: 37.5 per week, a job share may be considered for the right candidates (minimum of 15 hours)
Band 8a or Trainee APP Band 7
Are you an expert MSK clinician ready to take the next step in your advanced practice career? Do you thrive in a role where autonomy, clinical excellence, and service development come together? We are looking for an exceptional Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner (APP) to join our dynamic MSK team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly skilled practitioner who is passionate about delivering high‑quality care and shaping the future of MSK services across South Wiltshire.
About the Role
As an APP, you will work as a highly specialised autonomous clinician within MSK physiotherapy medicine.
You will take the lead in:
Triaging, assessing, and managing a wide range of MSK conditions including Spines and peripheral conditions — including complex presentations.
Taking clinical responsibility for the patient journey, from first contact to ongoing management plans.
Applying and growing advanced expertise in at least three key anatomical areas, supported by a team committed to your development.
Using your specialist orthopaedic knowledge to inform high‑level clinical decision–making.
This role is ideal for a clinician who enjoys challenge, independence, and impactful work.
Beyond Clinical Practice
You won’t just be delivering care — you’ll help shape the service.
The post holder will actively contribute to:
Service improvement and development projects
Meeting CQC requirements and standards
Ensuring the service continues to deliver safe, effective, high‑quality careSupporting innovation and best practice within the MSK pathway
Your voice and ideas will help drive continued excellence.
What We’re Looking For
A highly experienced MSK physiotherapist with specialist knowledge and advanced assessment skills
Someone motivated to develop expert-level competence across multiple body regions
A clinician confident in managing complex MSK presentations
A forward‑thinking professional passionate about service development
Why Join Us?
A supportive, specialist MSK team
Opportunities for advanced training and CPDA role with real autonomy and influence
The chance to work within a respected service serving Salisbury and the wider South Wiltshire community
Package Description
As an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner you will be part of our valued team in our Adult OIS Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £55,690 – £62,682 Band 8a AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership 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 you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online 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 counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We 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.
About the Company
We 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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
