Clinical Lead - Physiotherapist | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Sussex is looking for a Clinical Lead Physiotherapist for a fixed term contract covering maternity leave. The successful candidate will join a team focused on community therapy, providing rehabilitation in patients’ homes. Key responsibilities include leadership, staff management, and clinical support for diverse patient needs. Strong candidates will possess excellent knowledge of complex conditions and have a full UK driving license. The position offers varied environments, flexible working options, and excellent training opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and development opportunities

Cost-effective workplace nurseries

Active diversity and wellbeing networks

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of a variety of conditions and complex patient care.
• Experience of working within a variety of clinical settings, particularly in the community.
• Demonstrable dedication to personal development and commitment to high quality care.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and professional leadership for the service.
• Ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and delivery of excellent patient experience.
• Develop key partnerships for effective communication across disciplines.
• Manage staff and supervise development, including shift coordination.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Complex patient care

Community experience

Effective communication

Job description

Post Details

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.

Overview

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 licence and access to a car is essential. Community Therapy Hub covers Monday to Friday 08:00 to 18:00.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and professional leadership, ensuring effective governance and clinical support for staff working within the service.
• Work with operational leads to ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and delivery of an excellent patient experience.
• Develop key partnerships, working to ensure successful system working through effective communication and networking with other disciplines, working across professional and service boundaries.
• Develop the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Use specialist clinical assessment and intervention skills for complex patients and provide clinical advice and support to colleagues to enable individual and team development.
• Manage staff, supervise, and develop, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and performance development reviews of team members.

Qualifications & Experience

• Excellent knowledge of a variety of conditions and complex patient care.
• Experience of working within a variety of clinical settings, particularly the community.
• Demonstrable dedication to personal development and commitment to providing high quality care to a range of patients with differing needs.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car.

Benefits & Working Environment

• 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 networks: EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief.
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust.
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast.

Values & Equality

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.

Application Closure

We encourage applications early as this post may close early if sufficient applications are received. This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025.