Clinical Lead Therapist-Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES)

NHS; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Cheltenham is seeking a part-time Clinical Lead Therapist to provide professional and clinical leadership within the Integrated Community Equipment Service. This role requires an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with strong leadership and communication skills. The successful candidate will manage operational delivery and support staff competency while ensuring high-quality service provision. Salary ranges from £47,810 to £54,710 per annum, pro-rata.

Qualifications

• Current registration with HCPC required.
• Extensive post registration experience in clinical settings.
• Knowledge of community equipment provision.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership for the service.
• Act as an expert practitioner for clinical decision-making.
• Support and promote competency acquisition of staff.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Compassionate leadership

Education

Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy Qualification

Valid HCPC registration

Leadership qualification or experience

Job description

Overview

Clinical Lead Therapist-Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES) – Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 21 September 2025

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 28.5 hours per week.

Are you an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with a passion for equipment? Are you looking for a clinical leadership role? This could be the role for you!

We are looking for a motivated Therapist for the post of clinical lead with the Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES) in Gloucestershire. This is a small multidisciplinary team providing specialist equipment advice, support and training across the Integrated Care System. ICES has 3 main functions; advice and support, stock line management and review and equipment awareness (training). As clinical lead you will provide professional and clinical leadership, guidance and advice to support care delivery in the Integrated Community Equipment Services. You must be able to work in collaboration with system partners including Commissioners, Gloucester Equipment Loan Service (GELS), Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHFT), Gloucestershire County Council (GCC)to ensure a high-quality service is delivered operationally and be an expert, role model and mentor to colleagues in your team and the organisation.

There is flexibility in the working hours/pattern as long as the needs of the service can be met.

Main duties of the job

• Day to day operational delivery of the service including:
• Line management of colleagues
• Budget management
• Support referral prioritisation activity, ensuring triage of incoming workload and suitable response
• Exploring customer (patient, clinician and provider) experiences of services
• Support and promote competency acquisition of staff and clinical colleagues across partner organisations.
• Acting as an expert practitioner to inform clinical decision making and clinical reasoning in regard to provision of community equipment
• Providing professional and clinical leadership, guidance and advice to support care delivery in the Integrated Community Equipment Services.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews will be conducted in person at the Independent Living Centre, Cheltenham on 30th September 2025 and will include an equipment related task. Please consider this when making your application as online interviews cannot be offered.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

The main responsibilities are outlined above.

JOB PURPOSE To provide clinical and operational leadership for the integrated community equipment service, providing clinical and operational specific advice and support and direct clinical decision making (patient and service specific) on all relevant matters to ensure the quality of services provided. To role model person focussed care and decision making, as well as assure that high standards of professional practice are maintained. To work in partnership with operational colleagues across GHC and partner organisations to ensure a high-quality service is delivered operationally. In collaboration with the Equipment Services Operational Manager, system partners and commissioning ensure alignment of service priorities with organisational priorities and core business. To work in collaboration with system partners including Commissioners, Gloucester Equipment Loan Service (GELS), Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHFT), Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) and other partners. To support a positive culture of development, growth and progression within the organisation. To embed values, holism and integrated working. To be an expert, role model and mentor to colleagues in your team and the organisation.

QUALIFICATIONS - ESSENTIAL: Current registration with HCPC Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy degree or equivalent qualification; Leadership qualification or ability to demonstrate appropriate experience and knowledge of leadership; Teaching or training qualification or ability to demonstrate knowledge and experience.

DESIRABLE: Membership of National Association of Equipment Providers

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy Qualification
• Valid HCPC registration
• Leadership qualification or ability to demonstrate appropriate experience and knowledge of leadership
• Membership of National Association of Equipment Providers

Experience

• Extensive post registration experience in a broad range of clinical settings
• Extensive knowledge of assessment and provision of community equipment provision including both rehabilitation and long-term condition management
• Breadth of clinical / professional experience which can be demonstrated in practice and support a range of colleagues, patients / service user care requirements
• Understanding of the vision, values and strategic direction of GHC

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of HR issues e.g. recruitment and retention, performance management.
• Knowledge and experience of operational leadership
• Experience and understanding of working with system partners and commissioning

Skills

• Self-motivated with the ability to work limited supervision, as well as work to tight and often changing timescales
• Compassionate and assertive leader
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum (pro rata)