Opportunities

Position: Acupuncturist

Employment Status: Self-employed associate

Time/Days: Part-time. Minimum 2 days.

Payment: 70% of Treatment Revenue on days worked.*

Start Date: Paternity cover required for 2 months from 10th November 2025. Part time ongoing position available from Aug 2025.

*See current treatment pricing.

I am currently looking for another Acupuncturist to join the team at my clinic in Ivybridge South Devon!
I am looking for 2 months paternity cover in November and December 2025 (covering 3 days a week) and an ongoing part-time position of minimum 2 days a week. Paternity cover period offers a great opportunity to build your own client base taking on all new patients during that period.

The Clinic

The clinic is based in the South Devon Tennis Centre just outside Ivybridge on the A38 with good access from the South Hams and Plymouth areas. I started the clinic in Nov 2022 after moving from Oxford and am looking for another acupuncturist to join the team! 

Advantages

The Role

An acupuncturist to join the clinic as a self employed associate. The Practitioner will begin with an initial 3-month trial period with the expectation to build up to a minimum of 2.5 days a week at the clinic with the intention of the role being long-term. This is hopefully a great potential opportunity for an enthusiastic and dedicated acupuncturist to join an existing and innovative clinic!

The practitioner would work independently seeing their own patients but I am also looking to establish a positive working relationship where both practitioners may both benefit from occasional referrals from each other in cases where the patient may benefit from the other practitioner’s specialities and experience as well as occasional cover when required.

The Acupuncture Treatment Approach

I am ideally looking for a practitioner either using or interesting in learning a similar treatment approach as myself. This is to help maintain a relative consistency in the type of treatments we provide for patients. My fundamental treatment approach is predominantly informed by the Applied Channel Theory approach as taught and practiced by the late Dr Wang Ju-Yi. It is a hands-on, palpation-based and interactive style! The approach is also integrated and informed by conventional anatomy, physiology and rehabilitation science especially in the treatment of musculo-skeletal pain and neurological issues (for which I also use scalp acupuncture as an adjunctive treatment approach). I often use some tuina massage as an adjunctive therapy to acupuncture but not as a stand-alone treatment.

I am happy to take on a practitioner who is interested in learning this approach and undertaking a period of additional training/shadowing prior to starting the role. This could be a great opportunity for a relatively newly qualified or less experienced practitioner to undertake some further clinical training. Newly qualified/less experienced (<3 years) practitioners may be expected to undertake period of shadowing/observation required and potentially some additional training requirements depending on experience. More experienced practitioners would also be encouraged and be welcome to do some shadowing to observe the treatment approach used in the clinic.

Practitioners experienced in a using different treatment approach will certainly still be considered and should still apply if interested. The practitioner will always have the autonomy to decide on their treatment approach for each patient.

Evidence-Informed Practice

I am a researcher as well as practitioner and am an advocate for using evidence-informed practice where possible. My treatment approach is motivated by getting clear results for patients with their health issues. I’ve been routinely collecting a lot of useful clinical and outcomes data over the years on all my patients to help ensure I am maintaining a high standard of patient outcomes and to help inform finding the most optimal treatment approaches.

This is a great opportunity for the research-motivated practitioner to join in with this initiative and utilise the same system of monitoring patient outcomes and recording clinical notes for which we have a specific software system. I am striving for the clinic to be innovative in our field and collect real data to inform best practice methods. I am also interested in potentially having specific research studies based at the clinic in the future.

Qualifications and Experience

The ideal practitioner will:

• Be qualified at degree level or equivalent.
• Either i) be an experienced practitioner with training in the Applied Channel Theory approach as described above or ii) be a newly qualified/less experienced practitioner who is interested in undertaking a period of additional training/shadowing prior to starting the role.
• Be qualified in tuina and/or other massage therapy and/or be a confident ‘hands-on’ practitioner.
• Be a confident, enthusiastic, empathetic and skillful therapist! Motivated to help patients and genuinely understand and explore their health issues. Prior experience in another conventional healthcare profession is also welcome.
• Have additional complementary skills/specialisms in other clinical areas such as women’s health/oncology
• Have a positive attitude to research and evidence-informed practice and have a competent knowledge of conventional anatomy, physiology and pathology as well as traditional Chinese medicine theory.
• Interested in potentially working on future research projects based at the clinic.
• Committed to undertake regular CPD training and constantly strive to develop as a practitioner.
• Technically competent with using online systems for patient record keeping, appointment bookings and payment.
• Open to having students observe their practice.
• Open to discussing cases, able to provide and have cover provided for patients where needed.
• Be a member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC).