Lead Specialist Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 25 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2025 |
| Location: | Headington, OX3 7LE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9321-25-1218 |
Summary
The Lead Physiotherapist will be able to: Use their expert knowledge and clinical judgement to lead the Lead team to deliver high quality care. Monitor and maintain standards of care and provide this information to the Directorate. Ensure the provision of continuity of care. Assess and evaluate, with patients and /or carers, the effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and make changes as needed. Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes, and healthcare delivery systems. To effectively manage human, financial, material and information resources. KEY RESULT AREAS: Clinical Practice: The Lead Physiotherapist will: Work at a leadership level of practice influencing and directing the Lead and multidisciplinary team. Work clinically to optimise health and wellbeing, acting as a role model to ensure an individualised, holistic approach to patient care. To work and provide clinical support in relevant patient settings such as outpatients, inpatients and domiciliary areas. Apply expert judgement and accept accountability for the standards of care on the Lead. Work at an advanced level drawing on a diverse range of knowledge in complex decision making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions. Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events. Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice. Promote a high standard of care by initiating and co-ordinating the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of the holistic needs of patients/families through evidence-based practice following agreed policies, protocols and guidelines. Practice a high standard of communication including highly sensitive and complex information to develop and sustain partnership working with individuals, groups, communities, and agencies. Utilise evidence-based information through a variety of communication media. Maintain adequate patient documentation fulfilling professional requirements for all patients on the unit, setting and monitoring the standard to which it is delivered. Ensure effective management of patient journey / flow by ensuring good systems for operational performance are developed and consistently delivered. Ensure all incidents are properly recorded and managed via trust incident system. LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT: The Lead Physiotherapist will: Collaborate with the multi-professional team and unit team to develop a shared vision of the service. Act as a role model and resource in expert clinical evidence-based practice. Work collaboratively with colleagues to develop effective documentation, pathways, protocols, and guidelines for care. Demonstrate a commitment to share expertise and disseminate information. Lead the development of the team and the service to continuously improve patient care. Actively manage the Unit budget and apply detailed level of understanding of the budgetary constraints. Use effective change management skills to initiate and implement service and practice development, making the best use of resources to improve practice and health outcomes. Participate in the selection, interviewing, appraisal, and professional development of team members. Monitor and ensure that all members of the Lead team maintain their clinical competence. Ensure all members of the Unit team have an annual appraisal and personal development plan, with appropriate aims and objectives agreed and monitored. Ensure all members of the Unit team maintain their statutory and mandatory training. Maintain involvement and active input in multidisciplinary meetings and appropriate local bodies / forums to contribute to practice and service development. Monitor and manage all issues related to staff sickness absence, or performance, liaising with human resources and occupational health as necessary. EDUCATION & TRAINING: The Lead Physiotherapist will: Maintain, advance, and develop personal theoretical knowledge, high standards of clinical competence and professional development through ongoing self-education and attendance at relevant courses of study. Maintain own professional portfolio and support others with their own. Lead the development and acquisition of professional knowledge and skills to enhance and extend the practice of the Unit team. Identify and address the educational needs of patients, families, carers, and staff involved in the delivery of this service. Contribute to the teaching and support of students from the multi professional team within relevant educational programmes. Provide an appropriate learning environment, including mentorship, coaching and preceptorship. Organise and contribute to relevant educational programmes and in house study days. IMPROVING QUALITY & DEVELOPING PRACTICE: The Lead Physiotherapist will: Coordinate and participate in ongoing service review and evaluation, including seeking and monitoring patient experience and outcomes. Evaluate clinical practice in relation to its evidence base and clinical effectiveness including policy and guidance. Identify areas of risk and poor quality, and address these through appropriate governance structures and forums. Participate and actively seek peer review in practice and sound evidence for assurance purposes. Have responsibility to ensure annual appraisal, agree objectives which reflect local and national service needs and develop personal development plans. Advocate and contribute to a working environment that promotes continuous learning and development, evidence-based practice and succession planning, as well as identifying learning opportunities at local and national levels. Have a high level of communication skills to enable the participation in the dissemination of practice through conferences and professional publications. Ensure statutory and mandatory training updates, as well as role specialty updates are completed, and necessary records maintained.