Locality Team Lead

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Waldron; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Physiotherapist to join the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team as Locality Team Lead. The role combines clinical caseload with managerial responsibility to deliver patient-centred community rehabilitation.

You will provide strong clinical and managerial leadership to the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team, drive service improvements and support workforce development across the catchment area.

Responsibilities

• Provide line management, supervision, appraisal, support, guidance and training to Physiotherapists and Clinical Support Workers.
• Responsibility for finance, performance, governance and human resources.
• Responsibility for investigating incidents and complaints.
• Responsibility for budget management, resource allocation, workforce planning and recruitment.
• Ensuring all clinical services are compliant in relation to patient safety and quality standards, in line with relevant professional, Trust and NICE guidelines.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
• Responsibility for managing and maintaining team roster.
• Expectation to travel between trust sites for meetings.
• Contribute to service development

Skills

Leadership

Line management

Clinical supervision

Budget management

Training and development

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and dynamic Physiotherapist to join our Community Response Service (CRS) Team as a Locality Team Lead for the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team.

The Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team provide community rehabilitation with an aim to enable patients with a wide variety of conditions to be as independent as possible within their own environment, by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and interventions. The team is comprised of registered Physiotherapists and Clinical Support Workers.

This role includes managerial responsibility for the Berwick team, working closely alongside and cross covering Locality Team Leads for Alnwick, Hexham and Blyth. The successful post holder will be expected to carry a clinical caseload and offer clinical support with complex cases.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

To provide strong clinical and managerial leadership to the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

This role will involve leading and developing the CRS Physiotherapy Service, helping to deliver the NHS 10-Year Plan, driving service improvement initiatives, supporting workforce development and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, local authority and partner organisations to enhance patient outcomes and experience.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Details

• Date posted: 21 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 319-8229087LH
• Job locations: McDonald House, Wallace Green, Berwick, TD15 1ED, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Provide line management, supervision, appraisal, support, guidance and training to Physiotherapists and Clinical Support Workers.
• Responsibility for finance, performance, governance and human resources.
• Responsibility for investigating incidents and complaints.
• Responsibility for budget management, resource allocation, workforce planning and recruitment.
• Ensuring all clinical services are compliant in relation to patient safety and quality standards, in line with relevant professional, Trust and NICE guidelines.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
• Responsibility for managing and maintaining team roster.
• Expectation to travel between trust sites for meetings.
• Contribute to service development