We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled physiotherapists to join our Musculoskeletal (MSK) service in a dynamic and rewarding hybrid Bank role across MSK and Primary Care. This post offers an exciting opportunity to work at an advanced level, providing a highly specialist extended scope physiotherapy service. You will play a key role in assessing, diagnosing and directing patients with a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions onto the most appropriate care pathway, helping to improve patient flow and reduce delays in access to care.
Joining our team means being part of a forward-thinking, supportive service that actively embraces innovation to improve patient care and staff experience. We are continually developing new ways of working across MSK and Primary Care, creating opportunities for clinicians to shape services, influence pathways, and work at the forefront of modern, patient-centred care. You will be supported to work autonomously while also benefiting from strong clinical leadership, peer support, and a collaborative team culture that values ideas, improvement, and progression.
As a Bank First Contact Practitioner, you will work at the front door of primary care, seeing patients without prior GP consultation and using your expert clinical reasoning to provide rapid and accurate diagnosis and management plans. You will have the autonomy to make decisions about the most appropriate course of action for patients, including those presenting with undifferentiated conditions, ensuring safe, effective and timely care.
You will be confident in requesting and interpreting diagnostic investigations such as imaging and blood tests, using this information to inform clinical decision-making while understanding the limitations of these tools. A strong focus of the role is supporting patients to self-manage their conditions, promoting behaviour change, improving mobility and independence, and reducing reliance on medication through evidence-based, non-pharmacological approaches.
This role is ideal for a motivated clinician who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys working autonomously, and is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while contributing to innovative models of service delivery within the NHS.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
To work at expert level in the assessment of spinal pain and musculoskeletal conditions with a high level of autonomy with the ability to differentiate presentations that may masquerade as musculoskeletal.
To be responsible for triage, of all orthopaedic, rheumatology, neurosurgical and pain referrals from primary care, ensuring rapid prioritisation and provision of appointments and to take responsibility for appropriate routing and discharging patients from care.
Please see attached person specification for additional responsibilities
