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Job summary

Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (.)
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
150-SK2957-PC
Employer
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Worthing Hospital
Town
Worthing
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust logo

Team Lead Physiotherapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

  1. To be responsible for the day to day running and management of staff within the Physiotherapy Service. 

  1. Working within the Physiotherapy outpatient team, taking the responsibility for referrals and treatment of members of the public into the Physiotherapy department.  

  1. To have overall responsibility for the training and development of staff. 

  1. To take a leading role in the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex and/or chronic presentation. 

  1. To provide an effective high-quality service and take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists/technicians/assistants.  

  1. To provide skilled team leadership and be responsible for service development within Physiotherapy role, using any evidence-based practice and national guidelines. 

  1. To implement policy and policy changes in own clinical area and to set and monitor standards of practice. 

  1. To undertake evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in appropriate departmental research in this clinical area.

Roles available across the whole of West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, inclusive of full and part-time/ fixed term/ secondment/ job share opportunities. Sites include Worthing/Brighton/ Hove/ Haywards Heath/ Crawley/ Horsham/ Bognor Regis.

Main duties of the job

  1. Work in partnership with Service Managers to promote safe working practices and well-being of patients referred in accordance with the Health & Safety Regulations and Trust Policies.  

  1. Contribute to the strategic development of the service and speciality.  This includes input into the service annual business plan and the formulation of relevant business cases and integration with the whole Musculoskeletal service aims. 

  1. To ensure designated staff implement policy and service developmental changes. 

  1. To ensure that the service responds to national initiatives and policy within the framework of Clinical Governance including clinical effectiveness, evidence-based health care, managing clinical risk, and Research & Development issues. 

  1. To work a rostered 7-day service when implemented. 

  1. To advise on the management of frequent and long-term sickness absence and suitable rehabilitation programme were agreed or report back to Occupational Health team as appropriate. 

  1. To be an active member of the formal departmental training programme by attending in-service sessions, delivering and attending training sessions both in house and externally and undertaking reflective practice. 

  1. To be responsible for the Line Management of staff, including recruitment, career development, performance and work evaluation. 

Working for our organisation

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?
•    Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
•    Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
•    Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
•    Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
•    Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
•    Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
•    Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
•    Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  1. To carry out assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with complex presentations and to use clinical reasoning skills, knowledge of evidence-based practice and clinical expertise to determine appropriate care plans utilising specialist treatment skills and options.  

  1. To devise an individualised Physiotherapy management and/or treatment plan, using clinical reasoning skills to utilise a range of treatment options in formulating a specialised programme of care.  

  1. Always maintain patient confidentiality and dignity and support peoples’ equality, diversity, and rights.  

  1. To be responsible for implementing within clinical practice, the relevant standards, and policies.  

  1. To maintain a high standard of clinical care using evidence-based practices and evaluates the outcomes.  

  1. To be responsible as an autonomous practitioner to undertake a significant clinical caseload.  

  1. To provide leadership for the Physiotherapy service, being available for expert advice and guidance on complex patients.    

  1. To maintain professionalism in public/ rehab/ treatment centre areas.  

  1. To lead delivery of high quality, effective rehabilitation programmes   

  1. To be responsible for the safe use of equipment used in carrying out Physiotherapy duties, adhering to the departments medical devices policy. This includes competence and accuracy to use equipment by your-self and other healthcare professionals, carers, and patients. i.e., TENS machines and walking aids.  

  1. To be accountable for own professional actions.   

  1. To possess highly developed physical skills, dexterity, co-ordination and sensory skills for assessment and manual treatment of patients.  

  1. To work within codes of practise and professional guidelines. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree in Physiotherapy or BSc (Hons)
  • HCPC Registration
  • Up to date professional development portfolio
Desirable criteria
  • Member of relevant professional network

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience at Clinical specialist level
  • Experience of supervising staff and students
  • Involvement in carrying out clinical audit including the co-ordination and evaluation of, and the use of findings to make service developments
  • Proven understanding of clinical governance with risk management, its importance and an awareness of how it is carried out
  • Experience of operational management of staff e.g. personnel procedures
  • Experience of line management of staff and students, including appraisals, supervision and training
  • Experience of service development
  • Experience of working clinically as a Band 6 musculoskeletal physiotherapist for a period of at least 2 years
  • MSc equivalent level of education/ experience and evidence of relevant post graduate courses/CPD and reflective practice
  • Research background within a clinical environment
  • Member of CSP special interest group
  • Experience representing and promoting physiotherapy at a senior management level, Trust wide
  • Experience in motivating and empowering staff
  • Management/leadership experience
  • Experience of data collection, report writing.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of lecturing to MDT
  • Operational management experience
  • To have an understanding of the implementation of relevant HR policies for staff management.
  • Experience of working within the NHS is desirable

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with (profession) and multidisciplinary teams
  • Good presentation skills
  • Experience in handling sensitive and contentious information regarding staff
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of MSK services and where they sit within national service frameworks and NICE guidelines
  • Experience of involvement of resource management at team level, with an understanding of effect of resources on service and service developments
  • Involvement in carrying out research

Other

Essential criteria
  • Development and adherence to local service standards.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerCommitted to being an Inclusive EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident leaderMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Armed Forces Covenant - Silver 2025

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Amy Kemp
Job title
Area Head of Service - Adur and Worthing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03003730873
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