Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Can be flexible)
- Job ref
- 323-AHP1378-ED
- Employer
- Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Peter's Hospital
- Town
- Chertsey
- Salary
- £59,798 - £67,020 per annum inc. HCAS pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead – Inpatient Stroke and Neuro Service
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Clinical Lead – Inpatient Stroke & Neuro Services
Senior Therapist Opportunity
📍 Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust
Are you an experienced and passionate Senior Therapist looking to take the next step in your career? This is a rare and exciting opportunity to shape and lead high-quality stroke and neuro rehabilitation services within a dynamic and supportive NHS Trust and team.
We are seeking a highly skilled clinician with significant senior-level experience in stroke or neuro rehabilitation to join us as a Clinical Lead for Inpatient Stroke and Neuro Services.
This is a great opportunity to step into a leadership role while staying close to clinical practice—and to be part of a fantastic team that really values collaboration, support, development, and providing excellent patient care.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
This is a diverse and rewarding leadership role where you will:
- Provide operational and clinical leadership to fantastic multidisciplinary teams at St Peter’s Hospital
- Support and develop teams across:
- Stroke Rehabilitation (Phoenix)
- Neuro Rehabilitation (Phoenix)
- Balance hands-on clinical work with leadership responsibilities
We’re looking for someone who enjoys being visible, approachable, and part of the team, while also helping things run smoothly behind the scenes.
You will lead and support:
- Occupational Therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Dietitians
- Speech & Language Therapist
Why Join Us?
- Lead and influence the delivery of specialist rehabilitation services
- Work across a full patient pathway (acute → rehab → community)
- Combine clinical practice with leadership and service development
- Be part of a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary therapy team
- Be supported to continue to develop your clinical and leadership skills
What We’re Looking For
- HCPC registration in one of the relevant therapy professions
- Master’s level qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Strong clinical expertise in stroke or neurology rehabilitation
- Proven leadership and management experience
- Enjoys supporting and developing others
- A proactive, innovative approach to service development
- Experience in acute and rehabilitation settings (desirable)
- Experience in leading multiprofessional teams (desirable)
- Is motivated to improve services and patient outcomes
Working for our organisation
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest provider of acute hospital services to Surrey residents, serving a population of 410,00 people and employing approximately 4,800 staff.
Our vision is to provide an outstanding experience and best outcomes for patients and the team. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to deliver our workforce plan.
We are part of a collaborative Group with the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust. As part of this partnership, colleagues may occasionally work across both organisations to support shared services, development opportunities and patient care.
St Peter’s Hospital delivers complex medical and surgical care, maternity and emergency services. Day and orthopaedic surgery, ophthalmology and outpatient services are delivered at Ashford Hospital. Additional services are delivered at Woking Community Hospital.
Our Values provide us with the behaviours we respect and can commit to. By living our values through our everyday interactions, we can build a stronger, more resilient, and forward- thinking organisation, guiding us to achieve success and make a positive impact on how we deliver our services.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits and discounts.
Please note that adverts may close early, so early application is encouraged.
For more information about careers at ASPH please visit:
www.asph-careers.org
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver day-to-day operational leadership ensuring safe, effective care
- Support patient flow and discharge planning across the Trust
- Ensure compliance with SSNAP requirements
- Drive quality improvement initiatives across the teams in the stroke and neuro pathway
- Collaborate with Clinical Leads across:
- Acute Stroke
- Early Supported Discharge for Stroke (ESD)
- Regional Neurorehab Unit (Bradley)
- Wider Therapy Services
You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping innovative models of care to meet growing service demands.
Person specification
Essential and desirable
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience working at a senior level in stroke and neuro rehabilitation
- Be able to promote therapies and rehabilitation in an acute environment
- Ability to motivate others to deliver good services in challenging circumstances.
- Able to demonstrate how to prioritise workload and needs of self and others
- Dietetic, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist or Speech and Language degree
- Post Graduate education in relevant clinical area
- Significant experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of effectively managing and leading a clinical team
- Personnel management experience, including involvement in recruitment & selection, performance management
- Experience of successfully leading a team or services though service change and re design with a focus on productivity and efficiency
- Well developed interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively and clearly at all levels of organisations, both internally and externally
- Experience of mentoring and developing other staff and students.
- Able to assess, plan and progress treatments appropriately
- Recognise need to be visible and flexible to meet needs of services and staff
- Strong self awareness and an ability to reflect and learn from experiences
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing staff from different professional backgrounds
- Ability to lead teams through service review, redesign and deliver change
- Experience of leading complaint investigations
- Experience of working in community services
- Experience of managing relationships and developing services with key partners, including community services and other agencies
Essential
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience working at a senior level in stroke and neuro rehabilitation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathy Anderson
- Job title
- Therapy Manager for Stroke & Neuro services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971 180513
- Additional information
Interested? We’d Love to Hear From You
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