Head of Studio

Somana Health GmbH; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Germany-wide benefits budget up to €{€

Deutschlandticket

Meal allowance

Urban Sports Club

Drinks and snacks in studio

Professional growth budget €2,000/year

Job summary

Somana Health GmbH is opening a new physiotherapy studio in Bergmannkiez, Berlin, and seeks a Physiotherapist who can lead the clinical team from day one. You will set high treatment standards, build the team, and shape culture through onboarding, mentoring and structured reviews.

You will also oversee budgeting with HQ, while continuing to treat patients part of the week to stay connected with daily practice. This role blends clinical leadership with strategic studio development.

Qualifications

• You hold a degree or completed training in physiotherapy and have several years of professional experience.
• You have led before, as team lead, clinical lead or mentor.
• Certificates in KGG (medical training therapy) or manual therapy are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership of the physiotherapy team and collaborate with the Head of Reception on operations.
• Conduct 1:1s and half-year reviews with every therapist to support growth.
• Develop talent through targeted training, responsibilities and onboarding support.
• Manage personnel costs and budget planning with HQ while ensuring daily operations stay on budget.
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements in the studio and act as a first escalation point when issues arise.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Team building

Performance management

Active therapy

Budgeting

Mentoring

Education

Physiotherapy degree

KGG / manual therapy certificates

Job description

You’ve spent years getting patients back on their feet. Now you get to decide how a whole team does it.

In 2027 we open our new studio in Bergmannkiez, and we’re looking for the physiotherapist who will lead it. You’ll set the clinical standards, build the team and shape the culture from day one, in a studio designed around active therapy and training.

You’ll choose your team yourself. You run the clinical interviews, decide who fits, place new colleagues in our level system and develop them through onboarding, 1:1s and mentoring. When a therapist on your team grows, that’s your work showing.

You won’t be doing it alone. Your Head of Reception owns the rota, billing and utilisation, and HQ takes care of recruiting, contracts and IT. Your time goes into what matters most: your team and the quality of treatment.

You stay a physiotherapist. Part of your week you still treat patients yourself, so you know what your team deals with every day. The rest goes into leadership, team development and running the studio together with HQ, including the personnel budget.

Somana is growing across Berlin and beyond. Savignyplatz is your studio, and it can be your first step into an even bigger role.

What You Own

Clinical leadership of the physiotherapy team and, together with the Head of Reception, of the reception

1:1s and half-year reviews with every therapist

Talent development: training, responsibilities and targeted support for individual colleagues

Personnel costs: budget planning with HQ and keeping to it in daily operations

Compliance with legal requirements in the studio and first point of escalation when something goes wrong

What Success Looks Like After 6 Months

The team is present and treating: offered patient time is close to contracted hours

Low sick-leave rate and no unplanned departures

Patients rebook after their prescription ends, and doctor reports go out reliably

Personnel costs are on budget and Google reviews praise the team

Who This Job Is For

You hold a degree or completed training in physiotherapy and have several years of professional experience

You have led before, as team lead, clinical lead or mentor

You want to build and shape a team from the very beginning

Giving feedback comes easily to you, even when it gets uncomfortable

You think in numbers: utilisation, sick-leave rate, budget

You practise active therapy. Certificates in KGG (medical training therapy) or manual therapy are a plus

You enjoy team events and want to help shape the studio culture

This Role Is Not For You If

You mainly want to treat patients and not take on staff responsibility

You prefer to sit out conflicts rather than address them

Budgets and KPIs do not interest you

You are looking for a finished studio with established routines

You are looking for a small, family-style practice

What You Will Find With Us

Your studio from day one: you shape the team, treatment standards and culture of a location with up to 14 therapists working in parallel

A Head of Reception at your side who owns the rota, billing and utilisation, so your time goes into leadership and clinical quality

An HQ that has your back: recruiting including campaigns and first interviews, contracts, payroll and IT are handled centrally. You run the clinical interview and have a say in every hire

Peer exchange with the other Studio Leads and short paths to management

Professional growth: billing-relevant training fully covered, up to €2,000 per year for further courses, our own research and development, and partnerships with the University of Potsdam and DHGS

Real prospects: we are growing across Berlin over the next two years and beyond Berlin after that. Whoever leads a studio well takes on cross-studio responsibility

Benefits That Make a Real Difference

You get a monthly benefits budget of up to €160, tax-free. You decide what to use it for: Deutschlandticket, meal allowance or Urban Sports Club. Drinks and snacks in the studio come on top.

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