Therapy Service Lead

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Rishton; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Therapy Service Lead to drive the delivery of our Therapy Services across Neuroscience and Major Trauma. You will work with Therapy Leads to expand and develop services and to foster a culture of continuous improvement within a supportive leadership team.

The role focuses on governance, high-quality patient care, and strategic service development.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in therapy services
• Experience implementing governance and best practice
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Experience with workforce planning and service development

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Therapy Services alongside Therapy Lead colleagues.
• Ensure all staff operate within agreed standards and competency frameworks.
• Collaborate with senior therapy leadership to provide cohesive and efficient services.
• Implement innovative delivery models with key stakeholders.
• Participate in meetings regarding service delivery and professional support.
• Provide regular supervision to clinical lead therapists.
• Ensure compliance with local and national standards and governance.
• Identify strategic professional and operational issues.
• Use change management skills to re-structure work as needed.
• Support learning and development opportunities for therapists and therapy assistants.

Skills

Leadership

Management

Clinical governance

Change management

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy

HCPC registered

Leadership/Management training

CPD/Continuing professional development

Job description

Job summary

Are you passionate about the provision of excellent Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy services that are fit for the future? Do you want to join the leadership team & support fellow therapy teams to achieve their potential and provide a great place to work? Do you want to be part of ongoing transformation and improvement in our therapy services? If you answered yes, then this could be the opportunity for you! An exciting opportunity has become available for a suitably experienced therapist to join Core Therapies as a Therapy Service Lead with a portfolio in Neurosciences and Major Trauma. You will be well-supported by the Core Therapies senior leadership team and will be provided with opportunity to develop and grow into a senior leader of the future.

Main duties of the job

As a Therapy Service Lead you will work across professional and organisational boundaries to expand and develop the therapy services and act as a point of contact for advice on professional and operational issues.

In this role you will be responsible for the assurance of high standards of clinical governance and demonstrable best practice across the therapy services, ensuring high quality therapy for patients. You will also promote a culture of continuous improvement using local and national data to enhance clinical practice, service delivery, efficiency and performance.

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Details

Date posted: 01 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 438-PB4662

Job locations: Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, Preston, PR2 9HT, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Duties to include but not be limited to:

• You will be responsible for leading the delivery of our Therapy Services alongside your Therapy Lead colleagues.
• To lead the therapy teams ensuring all members are practicing effectively within agreed standards and competency frameworks.
• To work closely alongside the senior therapy leadership team to provide cohesive and efficient therapy services.
• To implement innovative models of service delivery in partnership with key stakeholders and community partners utilising continuous Improvement methodology.
• To actively participate in meetings in regard to a number of aspects of service delivery and professional support.
• To provide regular supervision to clinical lead therapists.
• To ensure the service meets local and national standards as well as clinical governance requirements.
• To identify professional and operational issues that need to be addressed at a strategic level.
• To successfully use advanced communication and change management skills to implement changes in work structure.
• To support learning and development opportunities for therapists and therapy assistants to support service delivery and provide professional development opportunities.
• To ensure that professional, departmental and trust standards, policies and procedures are adhered to.

Person Specification

Qualifications - Essential

• Degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registered
• Leadership/Management training
• Recent relevant Continuous Professional Development

Qualifications - Desirable

• Member of professional body
• Significant and varied experience in Leadership
• Significant and varied experience in clinical governance and application to practice and service delivery
• Significant and varied experience in workforce management including: recruitment and selection, staff development and performance management
• Significant and varied experience in leading audit activity
• Significant and varied experience in implementing national, local and professional health service agendas
• Significant and varied experience in clinical settings
• Experience working in a therapy setting
• Integrated clinical working
• Multi-professional team leadership
• Knowledge of budgetary management
• Participation in business planning/ contribution to business case development
• Participation in strategic workforce planning
• Knowledge of commissioning and procurement processes

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. 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 remained 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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, Preston, PR2 9HT, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Physiotherapy, Jo Perry, [e-mail], 01772524097