Team Leader Physiotherapist - Respiratory Outpatients | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Posting date:	18 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	18 July 2025
Location:	Nottingham, NG5 1PB
Company:	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7273890/164-7273890

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.

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.

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.
• 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


This advert closes on Sunday 6 Jul 2025