With access to bespoke physiotherapy facilities and over 1,000 hours of practical placements, you’ll be well prepared for a rewarding career in healthcare.
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Accreditation
This course is validated by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Successful completion of the course gives you eligibility to apply for registration with the HCPC, and full professional membership of the CSP.
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Overview
Our two-year accelerated programme is ideal for graduates who wish to become physiotherapists but do not hold an undergraduate physiotherapy degree.
After building a strong foundation of anatomical knowledge, you’ll learn how to diagnose and rehabilitate across a range of conditions, as well as how to prevent illness and disease. You’ll gain substantial practical experience in our purpose-built simulation laboratories and a range of real-life clinical environments.
Our team of experienced physiotherapists will supervise you on campus, and as you complete placements in different clinical, health, and social care settings. You’ll also study alongside students from our Medicine, Nursing, Social Work, and Occupational Therapy courses, providing opportunities to learn from each other and preparing you to work seamlessly in a multi-disciplinary team.
Placements
Over this two-year course, you’ll complete a minimum of 1,000 hours of work-based learning, ensuring you develop the practical skills needed for a successful career in physiotherapy.
Your placements will allow you to experience a variety of environments, including hospitals, private practices, community care, and specialised clinics. You’ll gain familiarity with the profession and a range of patients and conditions.
You’ll also complete simulation activities in our on-site facilities, including our physiotherapy lab. This means you can develop your confidence and skills in a controlled, supportive environment before applying them in a clinical setting.
Course content
On this accredited course, you’ll study theories backed up by substantial evidence and will then apply this learning in professional practice.
Throughout the course, you’ll gain a broad range of experience in the field, with experienced physiotherapists supervising you as you complete 1,000 hours of placement in different settings.
All modules are mandatory to ensure you’re eligible to register as a physiotherapist with the HCPC.
Careers
Most of our graduates go on to become Chartered Physiotherapists. The broad scope of the sector is one of its assets, making it an exciting and varied career.
You will become a scientifically oriented clinician with transferable practical skills. You’ll also develop the advanced problem-solving and leadership skills required to succeed in a dynamic healthcare environment.
Physiotherapists are in demand across the UK and abroad, which creates many exciting job opportunities.
As a qualified physiotherapist, you could:
- Become a senior physiotherapist or service manager in the NHS in a hospital, care home, GP practice, or other setting
- Specialise in a specific area, like sports physiotherapy, stroke care, or working with children
- Work for a professional sports club
- Become self-employed and set up your own practice
- Move into research or training
Course highlights
Teaching and assessment
Teaching is a mix of interactive seminars, lectures, one-to-one tutorials and practical skills sessions.
Your assessments will help prepare you for a career as a physiotherapist and include writing reflective essays, completing ethics forms, creating a business case proposal and building practice portfolios.
Teaching and assessment contents
This MSc Physiotherapy (Pre-Registration) course will be delivered full-time over two years, with each year comprising 45 weeks of learning; this is required to incorporate your practice based learning placements. There will be a minimum of 1,000 hours in practice placements, ensuring that you have enough opportunity to achieve a breadth of experience in a variety of settings, such that successful completion will ensure you can practice as an autonomous newly qualified practitioner.
You are taught through a combination of interactive lectures, practical skills sessions and small group seminars. Teaching will include both online (a minimum of 10% each module) and face-to-face teaching methods. Practical sessions are focused on developing physiotherapy specific and professional skills. Seminars enable discussion, developing your understanding of topics covered in lectures.
In addition, meetings with personal academic tutors are scheduled on at least 4 occasions in the first year and three occasions in the second year of the course.
The University places emphasis on enabling students to develop the graduate attributes that will equip you for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement. A mixture of independent study, teaching and academic support from Student Services and Library Services, and also the personal academic tutoring system enables you to reflect on progress and build up a profile of skills, achievements and experiences that will help you to flourish and be successful.
Meet the team
Meet some of our School of Health and Wellbeing staff members.
Sam Targett
Sam is the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy programme and Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy. Sam has been a Chartered Physiotherapist since 2007 and her clinical background is focused on people with Cardiorespiratory conditions. Sam has worked in a range of secondary care settings in the UK specialising in Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy for Adults and Children, including the UK's largest Cardiothoracic specialist centre. Prior to her role at Worcester, Sam was part of the teaching team on the MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration) programme at the University of Lincoln. She also has experience of supporting and managing students in clinical practice for several Allied Health professions, having been clinical practice and placement lead for a large NHS trust. Sam loves working with and supporting AHP students both academically and in practice and feels privileged to be part of such an innovative and supportive team here at Worcester.
Professor Dez Kyte
Prof Kyte trained as a Physiotherapist at the University of Bradford, graduating in 1996. He went on to work in the NHS for over 10 years, rising to a position as an Extended Scope Practitioner (Trauma & Orthopaedics) at the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. He moved into academia as a Clinical Tutor at the University of Birmingham in 2007. In this role he was involved in the delivery of under- and post-graduate education within the department of nursing and physiotherapy, specialising in anatomy & physiology and musculoskeletal practice. He completed an MSc in Advancing Practice (Specialist Manipulative Physiotherapy) in 2009. In 2011, he successfully applied for a fully funded NIHR doctoral fellowship, completing the PhD alongside his physiotherapy teaching workload and graduating in 2015.
Katharine Wood
Katharine joined the University of Worcester in 2013 to take up her first undergraduate lecturing post. She has worked predominately in the NHS but has left to establish a charity that specialises in the rehabilitation of neurological conditions. Alongside lecturing she also works part-time as a clinician treating a range of individuals with neurological diagnoses. Kat leads the student led clinic at the McClelland Centre on City Campus.
Dale Turner
Dale Turner joined the University of Worcester as a Lecturer in Physiotherapy in 2022. He qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2018 and has worked in a range of roles including Private Practice, Sport, and Occupational Health.
Dale has worked with a range of service users including Paediatric patients, athletes, and elderly patients.
He is specialised in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy (MSK) and is currently undertaking his MSc in MSK Physiotherapy.
Sam Targett
Sam is the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy programme and Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy. Sam has been a Chartered Physiotherapist since 2007 and her clinical background is focused on people with Cardiorespiratory conditions. Sam has worked in a range of secondary care settings in the UK specialising in Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy for Adults and Children, including the UK's largest Cardiothoracic specialist centre. Prior to her role at Worcester, Sam was part of the teaching team on the MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration) programme at the University of Lincoln. She also has experience of supporting and managing students in clinical practice for several Allied Health professions, having been clinical practice and placement lead for a large NHS trust. Sam loves working with and supporting AHP students both academically and in practice and feels privileged to be part of such an innovative and supportive team here at Worcester.
Professor Dez Kyte
Prof Kyte trained as a Physiotherapist at the University of Bradford, graduating in 1996. He went on to work in the NHS for over 10 years, rising to a position as an Extended Scope Practitioner (Trauma & Orthopaedics) at the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. He moved into academia as a Clinical Tutor at the University of Birmingham in 2007. In this role he was involved in the delivery of under- and post-graduate education within the department of nursing and physiotherapy, specialising in anatomy & physiology and musculoskeletal practice. He completed an MSc in Advancing Practice (Specialist Manipulative Physiotherapy) in 2009. In 2011, he successfully applied for a fully funded NIHR doctoral fellowship, completing the PhD alongside his physiotherapy teaching workload and graduating in 2015.
Entry requirements
A typical applicants will be able to demonstrate:
- A degree at 2:2 or above in a relevant discipline OR degree in another subject with a Level 3 qualification in Biology, Physical Education or Science.
- Evidence of knowledge or experience in the research process and/or the completion of an undergraduate dissertation or independent study.
- Sufficient numeracy and literacy to meet the requirements of the course are required (e.g., Maths and English at Grade 4/C and above). University of Worcester GCSE Maths and English equivalency tests will be accepted. See our Admissions Policy for other acceptable qualifications.
- A strong interest and demonstrated understanding of the breadth of the values and skills required to be a Registered Physiotherapist is necessary.
Additional entry requirements
We prefer students to have been in education within the last 3 years, but can review this based on individual circumstances.
We welcome applications from disabled students. More information and guidance on disability and becoming a health and care professional can be found on the Health and Care Professions Council website.
Satisfactory occupational health clearance is required. No offers will be made without interview.
Students will also be required to provide an Enhanced DBS check prior to placements on this course. We advise you apply for this as soon as possible, to avoid placement delays and to ensure your DBS is transferable between organisations. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that this is in place before commencing a placement.
International students
If English is not your first language, you will need to show that you have language skills at IELTS at 6.5 (not less than 6.0 in any section) or equivalent.
For country-specific information, see our International student pages.
Any questions?
If you have any questions about entry requirements, please call our Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk.
Fees
Fees contents
UK and EU Students
The standard fee for full-time home and EU students enrolling on MA/MSc/MBA and MRes degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £9,450 per year.
For more details, please visit our course fees page.
International Students
The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on MA, MSc, MBA and MRes degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £17,900 per year.
Student view
Rachel Lund
Rachel Lund is one of the first students to be graduating in September from the University of Worcester’s Masters in Physiotherapy.
“I heard that Worcester was launching a Masters in Physiotherapy and because I had had such a great experience doing my undergraduate degree here, I decided that I wanted to return,” she said. “The course has been really great; my lecturers have been brilliant and returning has been so lovely.”
She was among the first cohort of students on the two-year programme and following a successful placement has been snapped up by the local health service to start her working career.
Rachel Lund
Rachel Lund is one of the first students to be graduating in September from the University of Worcester’s Masters in Physiotherapy.
“I heard that Worcester was launching a Masters in Physiotherapy and because I had had such a great experience doing my undergraduate degree here, I decided that I wanted to return,” she said. “The course has been really great; my lecturers have been brilliant and returning has been so lovely.”
She was among the first cohort of students on the two-year programme and following a successful placement has been snapped up by the local health service to start her working career.
Rachel Lund
Rachel Lund is one of the first students to be graduating in September from the University of Worcester’s Masters in Physiotherapy.
“I heard that Worcester was launching a Masters in Physiotherapy and because I had had such a great experience doing my undergraduate degree here, I decided that I wanted to return,” she said. “The course has been really great; my lecturers have been brilliant and returning has been so lovely.”
She was among the first cohort of students on the two-year programme and following a successful placement has been snapped up by the local health service to start her working career.
How to apply
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Please make your application via our online application form.
If you have any questions about applying, please contact the Admissions office on 01905 855111 or admissions@worc.ac.uk.
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