Job Description

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to: Clinically manage patients attending rehabilitation courses. Deliver physiotherapy assessments, interventions, education sessions, tailored exercise programmes and discharge plans for patients utilising Defence and National best-practice guidelines within a structured course setting as part of a rehabilitation team. Use enhanced clinical reasoning, communication strategies and inter-personal skills to maximise occupational outcomes for personnel with diverse and complex MSK presentations including post-operative, persistent pain, sporting and high-performance populations. Enable seamless care pathway management, ensuring exercise programmes, summary reports and referrals are completed in a timely manner on course discharge.



Work as part of a team. Assist the course Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor (ERI) or Exercise Therapist (ET) in operational delivery of the course programme whilst retaining clinical leadership of patients care. Prioritise patients clinical interventions utilising enhanced clinical reasoning and time management skills. Deliver group education and therapy sessions as programmed or as staffing requires.



Proactively engage with clinical superiors and wider members of the rehabilitation team including Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) consultants and Medical Officers, podiatrists, senior rehabilitation staff, military managers and administration staff for opinions, assessments or interventions or onward referrals during course admission. Optimise residential delivery outcomes by liaising with referring clinicians to understand barriers to progression, understand general occupational functional requirements to agree realistic goals. Utilise wider Defence and external treatment pathway options when formulating discharge plans. Contribute to wider MSK services.



Deliver additional specialist outpatient interventions alongside course delivery as indicated in line with training and experience, including Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT). Support the wider clinical team and develop service expertise by contributing to clinical triage, Multidisciplinary Injury Assessment Clinic (MIAC) activity and administrative tasks as indicated. Please refer to the attached and Person Specification for the full list of duties. Selection Process At application stage you will be assessed against the following: CV: Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.



Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the . You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert. Experience: Relevant clinical experience in the assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders including sports injuries and orthopaedic conditions. Up to date Continuous Professional Development (CPD).



Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the . You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert. Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.



Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use. https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-recruitment/ At interview you will be assessed against the following: Technical Skills: NHS Core NHSC1 Communication NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement NHS Core NHSC5 Quality NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment You may be provided with a case study covering HWB6 - Assessment and Treatment Planning , and HWB7 - Interventions and Treatment. The interview will consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios. Please see the link to our YouTube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour-based questions.

Hints and tips such as:

Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEpdNWKQSRI NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework https://www.msg.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/KSF-Handbook.pdf The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed. There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview. Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.



Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken. All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.



Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate. If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.



To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application. There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home. The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.



As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.



This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk.



The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment. The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation.



You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out. The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking.



Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.