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Job summary

Main area
Physiotherapy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on call required)
Job ref
214-CSTO-7295270
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton-In-ashfield
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/07/2025 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

ICU and Surgery Physiotherapy Team Lead

NHS AfC: Band 7

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

Are you a motivated and experienced physiotherapist ready to take the next step in your leadership journey? We’re looking for a dynamic individual to lead our dedicated team supporting respiratory and surgical patients at King’s Mill Hospital.

As the ICU and Surgery Physiotherapy Team Lead, you will:

  • Manage a team of qualified and non-qualified staff delivering care to respiratory and surgical patients
  • Provide strong clinical leadership and ensure adherence to clinical governance standards
  • Support recruitment, retention, and development of Band 5 and Band 6 physiotherapists
  • Play a key role in service planning, delivery, and evaluation for both inpatient and outpatient care
  • Participate in the respiratory on-call rota

You will also contribute to the ongoing development of high-quality, evidence-based physiotherapy services, ensuring alignment with national standards and best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Deliver effective physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and orthotic interventions to maximise patient outcomes
  • Lead training and education for therapy, medical, nursing, and allied health staff
  • Drive continuous improvement and innovation in service delivery
  • Support the development of new ways of working across the therapy service

Apply now to join our team and make a difference in health care!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. 

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. 

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands. 

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Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • A highly developed knowledge and ability to meet the standards and expected criteria for this therapy service
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Supervisory skills
  • Able to work within a team independently
  • Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others
  • Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
  • Effective communication skills – oral and written
  • Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records
  • Able to provide and receive complex and /or sensitive information
  • Remain updated with professional practice and new research
  • Knowledge of clinical governance and its application to therapy
Desirable criteria
  • Cardiac rehabilitation

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy BSc(Hons)or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
  • HCPC registration

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Attendance of post-graduate courses relevant to this post.
  • Evidence of proactive CPD
  • Has completed a physiotherapy student’s supervisor’s course.
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of postgraduate respiratory course work.
  • Member of Association of Chartered Physiotherapist in Respiratory Care (ACPRC) Leadership / management course

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post graduate clinical experience including recent experience at band 6 level on acute medical wards
  • Experience of student supervision

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Participation in the physiotherapy emergency on call service.
  • Must be extremely flexible and able to do 7 day working
Desirable criteria
  • Car driver

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodCarer Friendly Employer 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare4NottsTime to changeFair Train Silver StandardStep into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Chris Williams
Job title
Therapy Operational Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623 622515
Additional information

If I am unavailable, please liaise with Helen Burrows on ext; 4260. 

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