Clinical Lead Therapist - Stroke & Neurosciences

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 71,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Part-time role

Job share

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust invites applications for an 8a Clinical Lead role based at Newham University Hospital, London. This part-time, job-shared post will lead both the stroke service and neuroscience service, guiding MDTs and service development aligned with the NHS long term plan.

You will provide clinical supervision, line management for allied professionals, and drive quality improvement with Trust stakeholders. HCPC registration is essential. DBS clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Essential: Diploma or Degree in Occupational therapy or Physiotherapy.
• Essential: HCPC registration.
• Essential: DBS clearance.
• Desirable: Royal College of Occupational Therapy or Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
• Desirable: European computer drivers licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical supervision and line management for staff within your field.
• Work at an advanced level with patients needing specialist assessment and onward referral.
• Collaborate on service development and quality improvement programs with Trust stakeholders.
• Lead and support Trust-wide projects across sites.

Skills

MS Office

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Risk assessment

Education

Diploma or Degree in Occupational therapy or Physiotherapy

HCPC registration

DBS clearance

Royal College of Occupational Therapy / Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (Desirable)

European computer drivers licence (Desirable)

Job description

Closing date: 08 November 2026
Salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year per annum pro rata inc
Band: Band 8a
Working pattern: Part-time, Job share
Location: Newham University Hospital, Glen Road, London E13 8SL

Job summary

We have an exciting 8a Clinical Lead role and at present will operationally lead both the stroke service and the neuroscience service. Our award-winning Acute Stroke Unit comprises of 13 beds receiving care from an established Stroke MDT. Both services are currently going through service development line with the NHS long term plan and the Trust's vision and strategy.

Main duties of the job

As the Clinical Lead you will provide clinical supervision to staff within your own specialist professional field and have line management responsibility for a team of Allied Health Professionals and support staff. You will work at an advanced level and manage patients that require more specialist assessment, investigations, and onward referral. There is opportunity to collaborate and to lead in service development and quality improvement programs with key stakeholders within Trust and NEL influencing the strategic direction of the services.

You will work with a supportive Therapy leadership team and MDT alongside support from the Head of Therapies for Newham University Hospital.

The service supports in-service training along with a robust personal development review programme including research opportunity to support staff with their learning and development.

If you have excellent leadership skills, a positive attitude and excellent communication skills this is the role for you.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm‑free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: Diploma or Degree in Occupational therapy or Physiotherapy
• Essential: HCPC registration
• Essential: DBS clearance
• Desirable: Member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy or Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Desirable: European computer drivers licence

Knowledge

• Essential: Fulfils KSF outline for Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist (Band 8a)
• Essential: Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at post graduate course/training relevant to clinical specialty
• Essential: Evidence of relevant masters level qualification or equivalent specialist experience
• Desirable: Fieldwork educators training
• Desirable: Involvement in relevant professional special interest group
• Desirable: Leadership training
• Desirable: Post graduate formal qualification relevant to clinical speciality

Experience

• Essential: Experience of managing senior and junior staff, students and assistant
• Essential: Operational management experience in a complex environment
• Essential: Experience of successfully leading and implementing service improvement and change projects.
• Essential: Experience of managing a budget
• Essential: Experience of working across sites and leading Trust wide projects
• Essential: To have been involved in bringing about change to a service/department
• Essential: Ability to understand complex issues, problem solve and propose solutions

Personal and people development

• Essential: Lead by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity.
• Essential: High level of work organisation, self motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
• Essential: Committed to the continuous development of staff and self
• Essential: Able to prioritise, organise and delegate
• Essential: Decisive, using sound judgement in decision making and delivering in a in a timely and confident manner.
• Essential: Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership.
• Essential: Demonstrates a real commitment to working with, involving and consulting patients and other stakeholders in decisions about service delivery and improvement
• Essential: Acts as a role model for such an approach even where this results in challenges to how things are done
• Essential: High self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths and limitations

Skills

• Essential: Fluent in the use of MS Office applications
• Essential: Effective problem solving skills
• Essential: Demonstrates strong leadership skills
• Essential: Good analytical & organisational ability
• Essential: Understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession
• Essential: Ability to identify and assess the potential risks involved in work activities and processes for self and others
• Essential: Ability to assess and act against risks and consequence of exposure to patients and environments which maybe highly distressing, antagonistic, open to aggression and/or unpleasant to self, patients and others.

Communication

• Essential: Able to lead a multi-disciplinary team
• Essential: Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.
• Essential: Able to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures
• Essential: Able to clarify key points from diverse and complex sets of information.
• Essential: Able to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions
• Essential: Models, and is able to encourage others in being innovative in finding ways of improving the quality of services
• Desirable: Experienced in giving presentations to diverse audiences
• Desirable: Able to act as an Ambassador for the Service

Specific requirements

• Essential: Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.