Job Description:
Virtual MSK Physiotherapist
Remote based with occasional attendance in either Bupa Place (Salford Quays, M50 3SP) or alternative local Bupa Centre as required.
Permanent
Salary: £43,000 full time equivalent
Flexible shift pattern – based on 37.5 hour working week, minimum working hours of 22.5 hours per week, including 1 weekend in every 4
The service we provide operates between 8am to 8pm Monday to Sunday. Flexible evening and weekend shifts available to suit. You would be expected to work at least one late weekday shift (12-8pm, excluding Mondays) and one full weekend every 4 weeks.
We make health happen
At Bupa, you’ll have the freedom to develop new lines of care, with the flexibility and development opportunities to push your career further.
As a Remote MSK Triage Physiotherapist, you’ll be eager to continue learning and building skills while working with talented colleagues.
This is a remote physiotherapy consultation service available for Bupa Insurance Members, Occupational Health and Corporate Customers. The service runs alongside other providers to ensure fast access to triage where no other GP referral has been made.
The service serves two purposes; to provide support and information to enable individuals to self-manage their musculoskeletal condition and where necessary, facilitate onward referral to the appropriate recognised clinicians or services.
If you can bring us the skills we’re looking for, we can help you build a career at a company that truly has belief in you.
You’ll help us make health happen by:
Delivering excellent standards of telephone assessment via video and audio capabilities.
Providing diagnosis, prescription of self-management techniques and onward referral within the services.
Monitoring and follow up complex cases and red flag cases, escalate where required and appropriate to the Clinical Lead.
Assessing customer needs and provide appropriate advice and support.
Managing customer pathways, delivering the most appropriate clinical outcomes at the best cost for the customer.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
2 years UK post qualification experience
Strong experience equivalent to a band 6 or 7 physiotherapist in an MSK setting alongside a strong history of 1-1 clinical delivery.
Be up-to-date with own clinical practice and demonstrate an ability to maintain clinical competence.
Degree or equivalent and accredited with the HCPC
Ability to evaluate, plan and prioritise workload within demanding timescales.
Excellent application of clinical knowledge with the ability to respond rapidly and decisively.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
As a Disability Confident employer, we aim to offer an interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
For further details on this role, please contact [email protected]
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
Clinical ServicesLocations:
Home Based North c/o Bupa PlaceSkills Required
- At least 2 years of UK post-qualification experience
- Strong experience equivalent to a Band 6 or 7 physiotherapist in an MSK setting
- Strong history of one-to-one clinical delivery
- Current clinical practice and ability to maintain clinical competence
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Accreditation with the HCPC
- Ability to evaluate, plan, and prioritize workload within demanding timescales
- Excellent clinical knowledge and ability to respond rapidly and decisively
Bupa Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Bupa and has not been reviewed or approved by Bupa.
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Healthcare Strength — Health cover via the UK Health Trust, day‑one medical support for frontline roles, and dedicated women’s health initiatives indicate a robust, health‑centric package. Access to digital GP, nurse lines, and options such as dental and health cash plans further reinforce medical and preventive care breadth.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs span mental, physical, emotional, and financial support, with offerings like EAP access, gym discounts, and health assessments. Flexible work and wellbeing programs highlighted in some regions add to lifestyle value.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include enhanced parental leave in certain UK business units and a family mental‑health support line. Options to extend medical coverage to dependants and family‑oriented allowances strengthen support beyond the individual.
Bupa Insights
What We Do
Bupa's purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We are an international healthcare company serving over 38 million customers worldwide. With no shareholders, we reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. We directly employ around 85,000 people, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, the US, Middle East and Ireland. We also have associate businesses in Saudi Arabia and India. For more information, visit www.bupa.com






