Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead

Nuffield Health; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 49,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health at Vale Hospital is seeking an Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead to manage the inpatient team and deliver high-quality clinical care. You will lead, motivate and supervise staff while maintaining strong patient-focused service delivery in a hospital setting.

The role involves clinical work, leadership responsibilities, and collaboration with hospital teams to ensure excellent patient outcomes and continuous quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Qualified Physiotherapist registered with the HCPC.
• Experience in hospital setting and people management desired.
• Demonstrable passion for excellence and driving standards.
• Proactive, adaptable and innovative mindset.
• Confident communicator with strong customer service and escalation handling.
• Ability to prioritise and manage varied workload efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Lead the inpatient physiotherapy service and supervise the team.
• Deliver clinical care for patients alongside leadership duties.
• Collaborate with consultants to ensure best practice.
• Drive quality service improvements and outcomes.
• Integrate with wider hospital teams to improve patient outcomes.
• Maintain HIW standards and conduct risk assessments.
• Oversee recruitment and HR responsibilities.

Skills

Rota management

Leadership

Clinical workload management

Communication

HR responsibilities

Education

BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent

Job description

Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead

Vale Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent | Part Time |

Up to £49,000 per annum pro rata dependent on skills and experience

37.5 Hours per week

The Physiotherapy team currently have an opportunity for a Inpatient Lead Physiotherapist at the Vale Hospital.

Continue your journey with us whilst we’ll support you to be your best.

Whatever you do, we want to give you every opportunity to broaden your experience and understanding and to develop you both personally and professionally at Nuffield Health.

We want you invested in us for the long term, and we’ll offer you an abundance of interesting and varied roles. You may want to consider stepping into something completely new to give you the fresh challenge you’ve been seeking. Where possible, please make sure you have had a conversation with your current manager about applying for this role.

We are looking for an ambitious Inpatient Lead to lead the Inpatient Physiotherapy service, ensuring delivery of high quality effective clinical care through assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of treatment.You will provide leadership, motivation and supervision of all members of the inpatient physiotherapy team as well as providing clinical care for patients.

You will bring experience from working within a hospital setting and managing people, but also deliver treatment to patients. You will integrate with staff from Inpatient physiotherapy team, pre-assessment, Theatres and the Ward.

You will be responsible for the delivery of safe effective care services that provides patients with the highest level of customer experience within Physiotherapy, identifying and delivering quality improvement opportunities. You will work with the Integrated Clinical Services Manager, Matron and Hospital Director to deliver relevant aspects of the Hospital business plan.

You’ll be working in an innovative, clean, modern working environment, while benefiting from support and training opportunities, plus the time and nurse-patient ratio that ensures quality of care.

As our Physiotherapy Lead you will:

• Be responsible for rota management of the inpatient team
• Maintain clinical workload alongside managerial duties.
• Work with Consultants to ensure best practice
• Take responsibilities for challenges, driving quality service and outcomes
• Have the autonomy to develop and grow the department
• Integrate with the wider hospital teams to ensure best patient outcomes
• Maintain HIW standards at all times, undertake departmental risk assessments, maintain plans for minimising incidents, and report appropriately.
• Involvement in recruitment and HR responsibilities
• To be a qualified Physiotherapist with a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and you’ll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Previous management experience desirable
• Demonstrable passion for excellence and driving standards
• To be proactive, adaptable and innovative
• Confident communicating skills with excellent customer service standards and dealing with escalations
• Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Vale Hospital

The Vale Hospital is a purpose built, modern hospital located in beautiful surroundings of the Vale of Glamorgan. We provide 30 in-patient rooms within a very tranquil hospital setting and were recently identified as one of the top 30 most technologically advanced hospitals in the world. We host 2 fully digital ultra clean air operating theatres, an excellent physiotherapy department, 24-hour high dependency, surgical and medical RMO cover and exemplary outpatients and diagnostic service. The patient feedback for our hospital is one of the best within the Nuffield Health estate and this is something our staff and consultants are very proud of.

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