Lead Therapist

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Lead Therapist to join their Spinal Injuries Team. This role involves operational management, leadership, and providing support to a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience as a qualified therapist and strong leadership skills, with opportunities for professional development and involvement in quality improvement initiatives.

Benefits

Professional Development

Flexible Working Policies

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a qualified therapist including post-registration NHS experience.
• Significant experience as a senior therapist managing a clinical area.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational management and leadership for inpatient and outpatient services.
• Support staff health and wellbeing, education, and professional development.

Skills

Communication

Organisational Skills

Leadership

Education

BSc in Physiotherapy

Masters degree in management or leadership

Job description

Go back Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Therapist

The closing date is 28 May 2025

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist (OT) or Physiotherapist looking to advance your career, and develop your operational management and leadership skills?

We are looking for a Lead Therapist to join our Spinal Injuries Team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, therapy support workers and activities coordinator. Based in the Osborn building at the Northern General Hospital, the team provide a service to acute, rehabilitation, readmission and outpatients with a Spinal Cord Injury.

The Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Centre is a 60 bedded, supra regional centre for patients who have sustained spinal cord damage as a result of trauma or pathology. Patients are accepted from a wide catchment area that covers much of the east of England. The Centre has 6 beds dedicated to ventilator dependent patients.

The Spinal Injuries Therapy Department includes a physiotherapy gym, hydrotherapy pool, sports hall, a main OT treatment area, heavy workshop/project room; therapy kitchen, assessment bedroom, assessment bathroom, computer room and assessment flat.

There is a well-established multi-disciplinary team where all members work collaboratively in the assessment and management of the patient. As well as offering a specialist service to our catchment area the Centre also has links with the other Spinal Injuries Centres across the country and liaises regularly regarding the provision of quality services to this patient group.

Main duties of the job

Day-to-day you will provide operational management and leadership for the teams inpatient and outpatient services. A key part of your role is to support staff health and wellbeing, education, and professional development. We are looking for someone with excellent communication, people and organisational skills who is able to deliver and sustain a positive, supportive team culture.

As well as a passion for supporting and developing people and services, the post requires a high level of specialist or senior-level post-registration experience working as a physiotherapist or occupational therapist within an acute hospital setting. Also required is the abilityto analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change as well as the confidence in working with a wide range of senior professionals.

While this post is predominantly a leadership one, part of the role will be on occasion to carry a small clinical caseload. Whilst clinical experience within Spinal Injuries is beneficial, we can offer training within this field to the successful candidate. For this post there will be no requirement to participate in weekend or on-call services at this time.

You will work closely and collaboratively with the Clinical Service Manager, Clinical Specialists and fellow Lead Therapists to ensure an equitable service is delivered by a robust and resilient team.

About us

The role offers the opportunity for either a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to grow their personal and professional development within the field of operational management and leadership.

Development of supervision and mentorship skills

Opportunities to deliver and receive teaching & training

Participation in and/or leading quality improvement initiatives

Involvement in clinical governance/assurance/management forums within the team, service and division

Development of operational, service delivery and line management knowledge and skills, including HR processes

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the person specification and the role criteria.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oBSc in Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapy
• oCurrent HPC Registration
• oPostgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject to this post or equivalent knowledge and skills accumulated through formal training and experiential learning.
• oMasters degree in management or leadership

Experience

• oExtensive experience as a qualified therapist including post-registration NHS experience as a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist
• oSignificant experience as a senior therapist especially for the day to day management of a clinical area.
• oIn-depth inter-professional knowledge of therapy in an acute hospital.
• oLine management of Therapy staff including appraisal and supervision.
• oClinical and Corporate Governance including Risk Management.
• oSignificant experience in emergency respiratory on call (PT only)
• oMember of Special Interest Group
• oGovernance
• Teaching

Further training

• oEvidence of continuous personal & professional development
• oCurrent clinical knowledge and skill in specialty
• oCurrent knowledge of evidence-base for specialty
• oGood basic knowledge of therapy practice for medicine, orthopaedics, neurology
• oManagement and leadership development training
• oNVQ Assessor
• oClinical Governance
• oResearch, Clinical Audit or Practice
• oLeadership
• oExcellent group working skills and the ability to work collaboratively.
• oExcellent interpersonal, communication, group working and leadership skills
• oExcellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and others.
• oAbility to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.
• oConfident in working with a wide range of senior professionals.
• oAble to maintain confidentiality
• IT Literate
• oUnderstanding of stress and ability to help others to cope under pressure

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.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearpa/pro rata for part time staff