Senior Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Band 6
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 18.75
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Senior Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Band 6, working part-time (18.75 hours a week) within the Pelvic Health Therapy Service. The post holder will manage patients during pregnancy, postnatally, and with pelvic pain or pelvic floor dysfunction across outpatient and group settings in Gloucestershire. Key responsibilities include providing evidence-based treatment, supporting team leadership, and contributing to service development and evaluation. The role offers opportunities for personal development within a supportive and innovative team.
Essential criteria
- Degree/diploma in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
- Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
- Completed or working towards completion of relevant post graduate training e.g. POGP short course
- Experience of working within a Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Service in a healthcare setting
- Experience of supervising, appraising, and providing education/training to others
- Knowledge, skills, abilities
- Deliver a high level of skill in assessment and management of complex patients with urinary incontinence and prolapse.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills, verbal, non-verbal and written when interacting with patients/carers, other team members and the MDT.
- Knowledge of and ability to apply and utilise evidence-based practice, including National guidelines to deliver, evaluate and audit the service.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the biopsychosocial approach to managing long term conditions.
- Demonstrate the ability to network with other professionals and set up close working relations
- Work flexibly in response to the changing demands of the service and manage changes in service delivery in self and others.
- To have access to roadworthy transport, to be able to travel to multiple locations within a working day which is likely to be covering a large geographical rural area.
- Qualities
- Work effectively as a team member within the multidisciplinary team.
- Work and maintain judgement under pressure whilst effectively managing own and others' time.
- Demonstrate commitment to personal development and recording CPD.
- Degree/diploma in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
- Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Completed or working towards completion of relevant post graduate training e.g. POGP short course
- Experience of working within a Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Service in a healthcare setting
- Experience of supervising, appraising, and providing education/training to others
- Knowledge, skills, abilities
- Deliver a high level of skill in assessment and management of complex patients with urinary incontinence and prolapse.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills, verbal, non-verbal and written when interacting with patients/carers, other team members and the MDT.
- Knowledge of and ability to apply and utilise evidence-based practice, including National guidelines to deliver, evaluate and audit the service.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the biopsychosocial approach to managing long term conditions.
- Demonstrate the ability to network with other professionals and set up close working relations
- Work flexibly in response to the changing demands of the service and manage changes in service delivery in self and others.
- To have access to roadworthy transport, to be able to travel to multiple locations within a working day which is likely to be covering a large geographical rural area.
- Qualities
- Work effectively as a team member within the multidisciplinary team.
- Work and maintain judgement under pressure whilst effectively managing own and others' time.
- Demonstrate commitment to personal development and recording CPD.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Band 6
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
Senior Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Band 6 (18.75 hours a week)
Are you interested in working for a service that supports personal development and provides a variety of experiences in an engaging and innovative team?
Join the Pelvic Health Therapy Service as a band 6 senior physiotherapist with opportunities in:
- Antenatal and postnatal pelvic health
- One to one and group sessions across a broad range of pelvic health conditions including pelvic pain and pelvic floor dysfunction
- Gynaecological clinics
- Colorectal multi-disciplinary specialist clinics
- Management of self-referrals
- Innovative ways of working
Candidates need to have a passion for promoting pelvic health. They will also have affiliate membership of POGP or relevant experience working within the specialty of pelvic health and be interested in personal and service development.
Contact:
[contact details removed] Specialist Physiotherapist [phone number removed]
[email removed]
Main duties of the job
To provide physiotherapy management of patients during pregnancy, postnatally and with pelvic pain or pelvic floor dysfunction. This will be across outpatient and group settings across the county of Gloucestershire.
To support leadership and work wit
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