Job summary
Community Therapy Service B&H: Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
Fix term contract or secondment (cover for maternity leave) from 23.02.2026 to 19.02.2027 for one year, may be shorter if there is a delay in applicant's start date.
Calling all Senior Physiotherapists looking to join a forward-thinking team - you could be an essential part of one of our Therapy Hub teams in Sussex.
We are looking for an experienced physiotherapist with sound clinical skills to join our Community Therapy team in Brighton. The post holder will assess, treat and monitor patients to provide rehabilitation within their own homes. The post holder will need to have experience of working within a variety of clinical settings, particularly the community. Our aim is to maximise opportunities for the people living in our communities to be as independent as possible in what matters to them, living full and active lives within their family circles, social networks, and the workplace.
This will include joint patient visits, liaison with staff at all levels, providing feedback and escalating concerns. The post will involve working with patients with a wide variety of pathologies and medical conditions and will involve visiting patients in their own homes or in-reach to care homes and nursing homes.
Due to the domiciliary nature of this post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential.
Main duties of the job
Community Therapy Hub covers Monday to Friday 08:00 to 18:00.
In this role, you will provide clinical and professional leadership, ensuring effective governance and clinical support for staff working within the service.
Working with the operational leads, you will ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and the delivery of an excellent patient experience. You will develop key partnerships, working to ensure successful system working through effective communication and networking with other disciplines, by working across professional and service boundaries.
You will be part of the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. Central to this is supporting the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff, supporting each other, and learning together.
You will use your specialist clinical assessment and intervention skills for complex patients and provide clinical advice and support to colleagues to enable individual and team development. You will be responsible for staff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews of members of the team.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will deliver complex clinical care to patients in the community. You will be required to have excellent widespread knowledge of a variety of conditions.
You will support colleagues with mentoring, coaching and teaching. The emphasis will be on providing clinical leadership in order to meet Trust targets aimed at facilitating hospital discharge, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, developing contingency plans, promoting independence, and implementing a culture of rehabilitation across community services.
You will also provide specialist support to therapy colleagues and work closely with the other clinical and operational leads for therapy services and members of the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring seamless care for patients in and out of hospital.
We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, a demonstrable dedication to personal development, and a commitment to providing high quality care to a range of patients with differing needs.
You will be required to travel between bases across Brighton and Hove area, to meet the clinical and supervisory requirements of the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will deliver complex clinical care to patients in the community. You will be required to have excellent widespread knowledge of a variety of conditions.
You will support colleagues with mentoring, coaching and teaching. The emphasis will be on providing clinical leadership in order to meet Trust targets aimed at facilitating hospital discharge, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, developing contingency plans, promoting independence, and implementing a culture of rehabilitation across community services.
You will also provide specialist support to therapy colleagues and work closely with the other clinical and operational leads for therapy services and members of the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring seamless care for patients in and out of hospital.
We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, a demonstrable dedication to personal development, and a commitment to providing high quality care to a range of patients with differing needs.
You will be required to travel between bases across Brighton and Hove area, to meet the clinical and supervisory requirements of the post.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Physiotherapy qualification at degree or equivalent
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership education/ development or a willingness to undertake this
- Members of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working in a community environment
- Evidence of teaching / health promotion
- Experience of working in MDTs with all other community services and hospital settings
- Significant yeas of experience post graduate
- Significant experience of supervision provision
- Excellent clinical skills across wide range of medical conditions.
- Sound clinical reasoning with experience of clinical traiging
Desirable
- Demonstrates excellent leadership and ability to empower others in practice
- Experience in capability and performance management, sickness management and familiar with probation tool kits and personal development review etc.
- Experience in leading audits and projects for service development
- Experience in chairing meetings with teams
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of prioritisation in clinical setting and demonstrates ability to delegate to others
- Evidence of managing change
- Evidence of effective communication
- Experience of leadership
- Evidence of managing situation when in crisis or unpredictable circumstances
Desirable
- Knowledge of Clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit.
- Understand Trust and nation wide visions
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Physiotherapy qualification at degree or equivalent
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership education/ development or a willingness to undertake this
- Members of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working in a community environment
- Evidence of teaching / health promotion
- Experience of working in MDTs with all other community services and hospital settings
- Significant yeas of experience post graduate
- Significant experience of supervision provision
- Excellent clinical skills across wide range of medical conditions.
- Sound clinical reasoning with experience of clinical traiging
Desirable
- Demonstrates excellent leadership and ability to empower others in practice
- Experience in capability and performance management, sickness management and familiar with probation tool kits and personal development review etc.
- Experience in leading audits and projects for service development
- Experience in chairing meetings with teams
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of prioritisation in clinical setting and demonstrates ability to delegate to others
- Evidence of managing change
- Evidence of effective communication
- Experience of leadership
- Evidence of managing situation when in crisis or unpredictable circumstances
Desirable
- Knowledge of Clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit.
- Understand Trust and nation wide visions
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.
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.
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).
