Team Leader Physiotherapist Inpatients

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

The closing date is 15 May 2025

Job summary

We are looking for dynamic and highly skilled clinician experienced in all aspects of medical inpatient rehabilitation. A forward-thinking clinician with the skills to combine highly specialist clinical practice with innovation you will be committed to following best practice and the promotion of high-quality physiotherapy services. The successful post holder needs to be flexible, motivated, and committed to put the patient's strengths, voice, choice and control at the centre of any interventions. As the team lead for Nevill Hall Inpatients you will have demonstrable leadership qualities, excellent communication and time management skills with proven abilities to build networks across sites and disciplines. You will undertake Team lead duties and be able to manage staff sickness and carry out PADR reviews to your staff and work closely with your operational manager. Through your knowledge of emerging clinical advances within the speciality, you will be expected as part of the senior clinical inpatient team to advise the Operational Manager and Senior Management team to inform future service development.

Main duties of the job

The post is based in Nevill Hall Hospital but may support other sites within ABUHB if the service needs require. The post holder will clinically lead a team of static and rotational staff, HCSW and students. They will work closely with the clinical lead and band 7's across the neighbourhood and ABUHB wide. The successful candidate will be expected to provide training, education, supervision and appraisal for staff and students, locally and across the service. As part of the role, you will contribute to the development of professional practice and the transformation and evaluation of service delivery and support research and innovation agenda. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

neurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff. Aneurin Bevan University Health Board strives to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, those who have a disability or impairment or are from the LGBTQ+ community and those who are underrepresented within the Health Board. You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac Please note that we will not be accepting TEAMS interviews at this time.

Date posted

02 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,840 to £53,602 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

040-AHP081-0525

Job locations

Nevill Hall Hospital

Brecon Road

Abergavenny

NP7 7EG


Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications, Training

Essential

  • Diploma / degree in Physiotherapy
  • Registered with HCPC
  • Appropriate range of post graduate training
  • Completion of Clinical Educator's course or equivalent

Desirable

  • MCSP
  • MSc
  • Active participation in relevant interest group
  • Evidence of or willing to undertake completion of an appropriate advanced assessment, diagnostic and treatment course that is recognised/ accredited

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience at band 6 with appropriate experience within speciality applied forpeciality
  • Senior postgraduate clinical experience encompassing complex case management
  • Significant senior postgraduate experience requiring people management skills
  • Experience of and commitment to leading clinical and organisational audit
  • Evidence of supervising staff
  • Previous leadership experience
  • Evidence of having worked unsupervised at a senior level
  • Experience of facilitating learning with undergraduate students

Desirable

  • Evidence of having participated in on-call and weekend duties where appropriate
  • Evidence of change management in clinical and operational practice
  • Experience of developing and implementing guidelines and standards
  • Experience of and commitment to teaching locally at an undergraduate and postgraduate level
  • Experience of working across multidisciplinary and multiagency boundaries
  • Experience of representing the physiotherapy profession in public/ professional arena
  • Experience of integrating user participation in service development
  • Experience of presenting to a wider audience
  • Experience of leading meetings
  • Evidence of having worked in the UK as a HCPC registered physiotherapist

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to discuss clinical reasoning in the management of complex cases
  • The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
  • The ability to demonstrate critical appraisal skills
  • The ability to facilitate reflective practice and learning with others
  • The ability to manage personnel issues
  • Good communication skills, both verbal and written when interacting with members of the team, other professionals, patients, and their families
  • The ability to lead and work effectively in a team environment
  • Evidence of initiative
  • Good organisational skills
  • Good time management
  • Able to discuss the ethos of clinical governance and it's implementation in physiotherapy practice.
  • The ability to lead discussion on the NHS and challenges facing the physiotherapy service with specific reference to matters relating to ABUHB
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development sufficient to meet HCPC standards

Desirable

  • Awareness of research principles and findings and the impact on clinical practice
  • IT literate
  • Ability to communicate in Welsh

Other

Essential

  • The physical ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling as demanded by the job role
  • Professional appearance
  • The ability to adapt to changes in work routine
  • Available for on-call and seven day working rotas where appropriate
  • The ability to travel between sites within the health Board or patients' residences in a timely manner to meet the requirements of the post
Person Specification

Education, Qualifications, Training

Essential

  • Diploma / degree in Physiotherapy
  • Registered with HCPC
  • Appropriate range of post graduate training
  • Completion of Clinical Educator's course or equivalent

Desirable

  • MCSP
  • MSc
  • Active participation in relevant interest group
  • Evidence of or willing to undertake completion of an appropriate advanced assessment, diagnostic and treatment course that is recognised/ accredited

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience at band 6 with appropriate experience within speciality applied forpeciality
  • Senior postgraduate clinical experience encompassing complex case management
  • Significant senior postgraduate experience requiring people management skills
  • Experience of and commitment to leading clinical and organisational audit
  • Evidence of supervising staff
  • Previous leadership experience
  • Evidence of having worked unsupervised at a senior level
  • Experience of facilitating learning with undergraduate students

Desirable

  • Evidence of having participated in on-call and weekend duties where appropriate
  • Evidence of change management in clinical and operational practice
  • Experience of developing and implementing guidelines and standards
  • Experience of and commitment to teaching locally at an undergraduate and postgraduate level
  • Experience of working across multidisciplinary and multiagency boundaries
  • Experience of representing the physiotherapy profession in public/ professional arena
  • Experience of integrating user participation in service development
  • Experience of presenting to a wider audience
  • Experience of leading meetings
  • Evidence of having worked in the UK as a HCPC registered physiotherapist

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to discuss clinical reasoning in the management of complex cases
  • The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
  • The ability to demonstrate critical appraisal skills
  • The ability to facilitate reflective practice and learning with others
  • The ability to manage personnel issues
  • Good communication skills, both verbal and written when interacting with members of the team, other professionals, patients, and their families
  • The ability to lead and work effectively in a team environment
  • Evidence of initiative
  • Good organisational skills
  • Good time management
  • Able to discuss the ethos of clinical governance and it's implementation in physiotherapy practice.
  • The ability to lead discussion on the NHS and challenges facing the physiotherapy service with specific reference to matters relating to ABUHB
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development sufficient to meet HCPC standards

Desirable

  • Awareness of research principles and findings and the impact on clinical practice
  • IT literate
  • Ability to communicate in Welsh

Other

Essential

  • The physical ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling as demanded by the job role
  • Professional appearance
  • The ability to adapt to changes in work routine
  • Available for on-call and seven day working rotas where appropriate
  • The ability to travel between sites within the health Board or patients' residences in a timely manner to meet the requirements of the post

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

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Address

Nevill Hall Hospital

Brecon Road

Abergavenny

NP7 7EG


Employer's website

https://abuhb.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

Address

Nevill Hall Hospital

Brecon Road

Abergavenny

NP7 7EG


Employer's website

https://abuhb.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Operational Manager

Bethan Webster

Bethan.Webster@wales.nhs.uk

01873732305

Date posted

02 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,840 to £53,602 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

040-AHP081-0525

Job locations

Nevill Hall Hospital

Brecon Road

Abergavenny

NP7 7EG


Supporting documents

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