Job summary
Are you a Physiotherapist with HCPC registration with a specialist interest in Hand Therapy? Or perhaps you're looking to progress your leadership skills?

Join our inspirational Adult Therapies Service at Bristol Foundation Trust in Weston, working alongside other physiotherapists, consultants and therapy technicians.

Main duties of the job
Successful applicants will autonomously manage their own caseload, working closely with other outpatient team members. They will also contribute to the leadership and management of the Therapy Outpatient team at Weston General Hospital.

You'll have opportunity to build relationships with new teams with unique benefits such as:

• Support from highly skilled and experienced band 7s and 8a's
• Working alongside Hand consultants within an orthopaedic clinic setting
• Supportive, integrated team working
• Robust in-service training programme
• Research opportunities
• Protected, regular clinical supervision and annual development reviews
• Service development and QI projects
• Support for appropriate external training courses
• Cake rotas
• Secondments / career breaks

Want to hear more about the benefits of working at UHBW? Apply through our website.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Details
Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 387-DT8974-BB
Closing date: 18 November 2026

Person Specification
Essential - Knowledge and experience

• Significant experience of treating a variety of commonly seen orthopaedic and acquired hand conditions as a band 6 therapist, using appropriately designed evidence-based protocols
• Experience of making a variety of splints commonly used in hand therapy
• Significant experience of clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching
• Experience of people management including undergraduate students
• Participation in service development
• Knowledge and experience of using clinical outcome measures and audit
• Understanding of the political and professional agenda
• Experience of implementing change

Essential - Aptitudes and skills

• Demonstrates a commitment to own and others' professional development
• Committed to team working
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Leadership skills
• Excellent time/caseload management skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects effectively

Essential - Qualifications and training

• Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
• Health and Care Professions Council registered
• A variety of experience in core areas as post graduate physiotherapist such as musculoskeletal, neuro, Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Demonstration of continued education/training in speciality area

Desirable

• Experience of managing chronic conditions of the hand and wrist
• Experience of dynamic splinting
• Postgraduate training at masters module level or equivalent related to clinical speciality (BAHT level 2 or equivalent)
• Management training
• Involvement in Relevant Special Clinical Interest Groups e.g. BAHT

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Employer contact
For questions about the job, contact: MSK Pathway Lead, Eleanor Gardner, eleanor.gardner5@nhs.net, 01173422201