Clinical Lead - Physiotherapist

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; England; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Sussex is seeking a Clinical Lead Physiotherapist on a fixed-term contract to lead patient care in the Brighton area. The role requires clinical leadership and expertise for home rehabilitation, supporting a diverse range of patients. Candidates must possess a Physiotherapy degree, HCPC registration, and proven experience in community settings. This position values flexibility and offers opportunities for professional development and engagement with interdisciplinary teams, ensuring effective patient pathways.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training opportunities

Positive work environment

Qualifications

• Must have a degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent.
• Required to have HCPC registration.
• Must demonstrate commitment to professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide complex clinical care to community patients.
• Support colleagues with mentoring and coaching.
• Lead teams to meet Trust targets for patient care.

Skills

Excellent clinical skills

Effective communication

Leadership

Prioritization

Change management

Education

Physiotherapy qualification at degree or equivalent

HCPC registration

Evidence of continuing professional development

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy membership

Job description

Community Therapy Service B&H: Clinical Lead Physiotherapist Fix term contract or secondment (cover for maternity leave) from 23.02.2026 to 19.02.2027 for one year, may be shorter if there is a delay in applicant's start date. Calling all Senior Physiotherapists looking to join a forward-thinking team - you could be an essential part of one of our Therapy Hub teams in Sussex.

We are looking for an experienced physiotherapist with sound clinical skills to join our Community Therapy team in Brighton. The post holder will assess, treat and monitor patients to provide rehabilitation within their own homes. The post holder will need to have experience of working within a variety of clinical settings, particularly the community. Our aim is to maximise opportunities for the people living in our communities to be as independent as possible in what matters to them, living full and active lives within their family circles, social networks, and the workplace.

This will include joint patient visits, liaison with staff at all levels, providing feedback and escalating concerns. The post will involve working with patients with a wide variety of pathologies and medical conditions and will involve visiting patients in their own homes or in-reach to care homes and nursing homes.

Due to the domiciliary nature of this post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential.

Main duties of the job

Community Therapy Hub covers Monday to Friday 08:00 to 18:00.

In this role, you will provide clinical and professional leadership, ensuring effective governance and clinical support for staff working within the service.

Working with the operational leads, you will ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and the delivery of an excellent patient experience. You will develop key partnerships, working to ensure successful system working through effective communication and networking with other disciplines, by working across professional and service boundaries.

You will be part of the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. Central to this is supporting the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff, supporting each other, and learning together.

You will use your specialist clinical assessment and intervention skills for complex patients and provide clinical advice and support to colleagues to enable individual and team development. You will be responsible for staff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews of members of the team.

About us

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
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief network
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

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.

Job responsibilities

The successful applicant will deliver complex clinical care to patients in the community. You will be required to have excellent widespread knowledge of a variety of conditions.

You will support colleagues with mentoring, coaching and teaching. The emphasis will be on providing clinical leadership in order to meet Trust targets aimed at facilitating hospital discharge, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, developing contingency plans, promoting independence, and implementing a culture of rehabilitation across community services.

You will also provide specialist support to therapy colleagues and work closely with the other clinical and operational leads for therapy services and members of the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring seamless care for patients in and out of hospital.

We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, a demonstrable dedication to personal development, and a commitment to providing high quality care to a range of patients with differing needs.

You will be required to travel between bases across Brighton and Hove area, to meet the clinical and supervisory requirements of the post.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Physiotherapy qualification at degree or equivalent
• HCPC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Evidence of leadership education/ development or a willingness to undertake this
• Members of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

Experience

• Evidence of working in a community environment
• Evidence of teaching / health promotion
• Experience of working in MDTs with all other community services and hospital settings
• Significant yeas of experience post graduate
• Significant experience of supervision provision
• Excellent clinical skills across wide range of medical conditions.
• Sound clinical reasoning with experience of clinical traiging
• Demonstrates excellent leadership and ability to empower others in practice
• Experience in capability and performance management, sickness management and familiar with probation tool kits and personal development review etc.
• Experience in leading audits and projects for service development
• Experience in chairing meetings with teams

Skills

• Evidence of prioritisation in clinical setting and demonstrates ability to delegate to others
• Evidence of managing change
• Evidence of effective communication
• Experience of leadership
• Evidence of managing situation when in crisis or unpredictable circumstances
• Knowledge of Clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit.
• Understand Trust and nation wide visions

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£47,810 to £54,710 a year, pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours