Band 7 Clinical Lead Physiotherapist

Transformation Unit; Basingstoke and Deane; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Clinical Lead Physiotherapist to provide dynamic clinical leadership and develop high-quality, evidence-based physiotherapy services in the community. The post offers strategic influence, expert supervision, and a chance to drive service improvement.

With HCPC registration and a strong track record in managing complex caseloads, you will lead a multidisciplinary team, supervise staff, and represent the trust at local and national meetings

Qualifications

• HCPC registration is required for practice in the UK.
• BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy or equivalent.
• Teaching/mentoring qualification or experience.
• Post registration/advanced physiotherapy qualification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced physiotherapy assessment, treatment and management for adults in a community setting.
• Exercise professional autonomy in managing a complex caseload with advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure integrated care.
• Provide leadership, supervision and mentorship to junior staff and students.
• Lead and support service development and quality improvement initiatives to maintain high standards of patient care.
• Deputise for the team lead as required.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Advanced assessment

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

HCPC Registration

BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy

Teaching / Mentoring qualification

Postgraduate qualification in Physiotherapy

Job description

Main area Physiotherapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours. 37.5 hours per week (to be worked across 7 days, including bank holidays and weekends on a rota basis) Job ref 825-8336595-OPS.

• Full time
• Flexible working

Employer Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site North Locality Town Whitchurch Salary £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum / Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 26/11/2026 23:59

Band 7 Clinical Lead Physiotherapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

We recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help build their application. However, all information provided must be an accurate reflection of your skills, knowledge, qualifications and experience. Candidates should be prepared to discuss and evidence the content of their application during the recruitment process.

We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

Job overview

The post holder will offer dynamic leadership to promote and develop a high quality evidenced based treatment, championing innovation to improve and support service delivery. They will act as the representative clinical lead at local and national strategic development meetings disseminating information and acting on initiatives and improvements within the resources available. The post holder will also act as an expert clinical resource for the Trust offering supervision, education and ongoing support to staff and teams managing own clinical complex caseload.

Main duties of the job

Provide advanced physiotherapy assessment, treatment and management for adults in a community setting.

Exercise professional autonomy in managing a complex caseload, applying advanced clinical reasoning and evidence based practice.

Work collaboratively with the wider multi disciplinary team, families and carers to ensure integrated care.

Provide strong clinical leadership, supervision and mentorship to junior staff, support workers and students.

Lead and support service development and quality improvement intiatives to maintain and enhance high standards of patient care.

To deputise for the team lead as required.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main responsitiblities of the post are set out in the attached job description and person specification.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

• HCPC Registration
• BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy or equivalent
• Teaching / Mentoring qualification or experience
• Relevant post registration physiotherapy qualification and experience to post graduate certification or equivalent

Experience

• Experience in working with a wide variety of patients including elderly, frail and complex, neurologically impaired, respiratory.
• Experience in providing rehabilitation to patient in a ward and/or community setting.
• Deomonstrate ability to develop new initiatives and manage change.
• Experience in leading and development staff.

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Ability to make decisions and prioritise actions
• Working Knowledge of clinical governance and evidence based practice
• Ability to interpret national policy and guidelines in relation to local service delivery
• Contribution to quality assurance and audit

Other

• Abililty to meet the travel needs of the post

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700 or the 'going rate' for the job you will be doing (whichever is higher). For a limited number of clinical posts ( listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.