Graduate development programme

Our Graduate Development Programme (GDP) offers an exciting opportunity for you to gain exposure to the MSK field while supporting you along the way with training and support.

The Cora GDP is an 18-month-long development pathway, that provides you with 10% protected Continuing Professional Development (CPD) time. 

You will attend a monthly face-to-face study day with an experienced clinician, where they share their expertise, skills and knowledge, and insights into the various topic/modules covered across the course. 

To complement the face-to-face study day, there is also virtual learning available via our learning platform, as well as mentoring, and coaching from your line manager. This is in addition to the usual professional development, audit and supervision that all our clinicians benefit from.

If you have any questions, please contact the team by emailing [email protected]

What makes a great graduate MSK clinician?

Driven and inquisitive clinicians with a keen desire to develop and provide evidence-based quality care to our patients.

Individuals who have an unwavering passion for delivering patient-centred interactions and making a positive impact on people’s lives.

The kind of graduate whose desire to learn and change knows no bounds – and who’ll do anything to pioneer what we’re doing within MSK.

The desire to turn new ways of thinking into everyday patient care.

The Graduate Development Programme is an excellent transition from your college life to working life. It’s a really good starting point in your career, offering a superb learning opportunity.

FAQs

Initial application will be made via CV and personal statement on our careers page, if successful you will then be invited to complete a virtual video assessment and then following that, onto a formal interview process should you be successful.

You must have achieved or be on track to achieve a 2:2 in an eligible degree programme or equivalent (e.g. MSc Pre-reg) as well as be eligible for registration with your relevant professional body or regulator (Physiotherapist – HCPC; Sports Therapist – SST, STA, BASRAT; Osteopath – GoC)

Application will be listed on the job advert; however this may close early if high volumes are received, we advise making an application at your earliest convenience.

You will be notified if your application is successful or unsuccessful at any stage. Please note we are not always able to give specific feedback for individual applications. We will strive to give candidates feedback on their video assessment and formal interview as part of their ongoing development, whether they are successful or not.

This is a full-time permanent job. The programme is designed for newly qualified physiotherapists, sports therapists and osteopaths, that have completed a degree level qualification (or higher) that allows them to register with one of the following professional bodies or regulators (physiotherapist – HCPC; sports therapist – SST, STA, BASRAT; osteopath – GoC).

Upon successful completion of the programme and upon passing the assessment/exam at the end of the programme, you will be promoted to a senior MSK clinician and receive the appropriate salary uplift, currently set as minimum £31,000.

There are exams at the end of the development programme that are required as part of the assessment process for completion. This exam is both practical, and theory based covering all the topics that you would have spent the last 18-months covering.

The programme may be delivered through a combination of face-to-face workshop, self-directed study, clinical practice, audit and supervision.