Team Leader Physiotherapist - Respiratory Outpatients

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

Job summary

NHS is seeking an enthusiastic Band 7 physiotherapist to lead the Respiratory Outpatients Physiotherapy service. This role involves managing complex patient caseloads and developing innovative service improvements. Opportunities for professional growth are supported through training and collaborations within a diverse, dedicated team of healthcare professionals at NUH.

Qualifications

• Significant postgraduate experience, including Band 6 rotations.
• Evidence of professional development in a specialist area.
• Management of staff performance and participation in recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations of the Respiratory outpatient physiotherapy service.
• Treat complex patients as an autonomous practitioner.
• Contribute to education and training of therapy staff.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Quality Improvement

Education

BSc Physiotherapy or equivalent

HCPC registration

Job description

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join the newly-formed Respiratory Outpatients Physiotherapy service at NUH as a Band 7 team leader.

We are looking for an experienced band 6 or a current band 7 physiotherapist with a broad respiratory clinical skill set and a passion for service development/improvement. You will have strong leadership and management skills, with excellent teamwork and communication skills. Proven skills in quality improvement will be an advantage.

You will treat patients with bronchiectasis and dysfunctional breathing disorder in the outpatient setting. Our ambition is to extend the service to other chronic respiratory illnesses in the future. You will work alongside an experienced Highly Specialist COPD physiotherapist to co-lead innovative and person-centred development of an ever-changing service.

We are keen to help you progress your advanced clinical practice skills such as lung function and test doses of nebulised therapy, dependent on clinical need and your personal career goals.

You will contribute to the wider inpatient respiratory physiotherapy team and its out of hours service. You will have opportunities for development within Therapies through regular training and peer/line management supervision, and close support from B7 respiratory physiotherapists across medical and surgical specialties.

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details. Core responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the Respiratory outpatient (OP) physiotherapy service.
• Responsibility for a clinical caseload of highly complex patients as an autonomous practitioner.
• Ensuring high quality, evidenced based practice, service development and education underpin the service delivery.
• Providing a supportive learning environment for team members under your direct management, including undertaking annual appraisals and managing health and wellbeing.
• Contributing to the education and teaching of students, preceptees and therapy support workers, including training new staff for the weekend and respiratory roster when required.
• Participating in the weekend respiratory service at NUH, City Hospital which incorporates Respiratory Medicine, Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, General Surgery & Critical Care.
• Supporting the Respiratory Outpatients team through leadership and service development. This will include structured quality improvement work, in collaboration with Respiratory Medicine consultants and the wider physiotherapy outpatients service.
• Leading by example, embedding NUH's values and behaviours in everyday practice.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

Physiotherapy and OT services are part of the Therapies, Outpatients and Phlebotomy Directorate, within Specialist Clinical Services at NUH. We are a diverse team of AHPs and support staff, employing over 800 staff, who works together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to. Our HCPC registered AHP professionals comprise of physiotherapists, dietitians, occupational therapists, orthotists, prosthetists and speech and language therapists. We have a Chief AHP to lead us on our strategic direction, and many of the pathway leadership team have pathway AHP backgrounds to support our staff. There are also Practice Development Therapists to support career development for all.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Details Date posted

18 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

164-7273890

Job locations

City Hospital Campus

Hucknall Road

Nottingham

NG5 1PB

Job description Job responsibilities

• Permanent 37.5 hours Band 7 post
• Core hours are worked Monday to Friday
• Flexible working and part time will be considered (minimum 0.8 WTE)
• Additional duties will include participation in on call and weekend working as well as a late shifts (1-9PM). Weekends are rostered with expected frequency of 1:4, an on-call average 1 per month and late shifts approximately 1-2 per month but all are dependent on service need and staffing levels
• Please familiarise yourself with the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for detail specific to this post

Job description Job responsibilities

• Permanent 37.5 hours Band 7 post
• Core hours are worked Monday to Friday
• Flexible working and part time will be considered (minimum 0.8 WTE)
• Additional duties will include participation in on call and weekend working as well as a late shifts (1-9PM). Weekends are rostered with expected frequency of 1:4, an on-call average 1 per month and late shifts approximately 1-2 per month but all are dependent on service need and staffing levels
• Please familiarise yourself with the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for detail specific to this post

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• BSc Physiotherapy or equivalent
• HCPC registration
• Evidence of appropriate post graduate study and professional development within specialist area

Skills and Experience Essential

• Significant postgraduate experience, including a wide variety to rotations and experiences at Band 6 in relevant speciality
• Experience of management of performance and sickness of staff and participation in recruitment of new staff of maximise workforce potential
• Experience in evaluation of evidence-based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking

Desirable

• Previous NHS experience

Communication and relationship skills Essential

• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrate leadership ability
• Able to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers.
• Feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy in performance management of staff.

Analytical and judgement skills Essential

• Able to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options
• Able to solve problem within the team and make decision where there are a range of options, including clinical and strategic issues.
• Able to collate information to identify trends and inform service development, e.g. use of spreadsheets, computer generated workload stats

Planning and organisational skills Essential

• Able to organise and priorities workload of yourself and your team, including daily task, and longer-term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities.
• Effective delegation and time management skills

Physical skills Essential

• Able to handle and move complex patients using a way that promotes rehabilitation and is safe
• Able to move and use medical devices

Other requirements Essential

• Able to undertake out of hours duties including on-call, weekends and bank holidays
• Able to travel cross campus and beyond the trust as needed

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• BSc Physiotherapy or equivalent
• HCPC registration
• Evidence of appropriate post graduate study and professional development within specialist area

Skills and Experience Essential

• Significant postgraduate experience, including a wide variety to rotations and experiences at Band 6 in relevant speciality
• Experience of management of performance and sickness of staff and participation in recruitment of new staff of maximise workforce potential
• Experience in evaluation of evidence-based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking

Desirable

• Previous NHS experience

Communication and relationship skills Essential

• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrate leadership ability
• Able to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers.
• Feedback constructive criticism with tact and diplomacy in performance management of staff.

Analytical and judgement skills Essential

• Able to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options
• Able to solve problem within the team and make decision where there are a range of options, including clinical and strategic issues.
• Able to collate information to identify trends and inform service development, e.g. use of spreadsheets, computer generated workload stats

Planning and organisational skills Essential

• Able to organise and priorities workload of yourself and your team, including daily task, and longer-term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities.
• Effective delegation and time management skills

Physical skills Essential

• Able to handle and move complex patients using a way that promotes rehabilitation and is safe
• Able to move and use medical devices

Other requirements Essential

• Able to undertake out of hours duties including on-call, weekends and bank holidays
• Able to travel cross campus and beyond the trust as needed

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

City Hospital Campus

Hucknall Road

Nottingham

NG5 1PB

Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

City Hospital Campus

Hucknall Road

Nottingham

NG5 1PB

Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)