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Band 7 Clinical Lead Physiotherapist

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Whitchurch, SY13 1NTView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

26 November 2026

14 days left

Job description

The post holder will offer dynamic leadership to promote and develop a high quality evidenced based treatment, championing innovation to improve and s...

Provide advanced physiotherapy assessment, treatment and management for adults in a community setting.

Exercise professional autonomy in managing a complex caseload, applying advanced clinical reasoning and evidence based practice.

Work collaboratively with the wider multi disciplinary team, families and carers to ensure integrated care.

Provide strong clinical leadership, supervision and mentorship to junior staff, support workers and students.

Lead and support service development and quality improvement intiatives to maintain and enhance high standards of patient care.

To deputise for the team lead as required.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • HCPC Registration
  • BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy or equivalent
  • Teaching / Mentoring qualification or experience
  • Relevant post registration physiotherapy qualification and experience to post graduate certification or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in working with a wide variety of patients including elderly, frail and complex, neurologically impaired, respiratory.
  • Experience in providing rehabilitation to patient in a ward and/or community setting.
  • Deomonstrate ability to develop new initiatives and manage change.
  • Experience in leading and development staff.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
  • Ability to make decisions and prioritise actions
  • Working Knowledge of clinical governance and evidence based practice
  • Ability to interpret national policy and guidelines in relation to local service delivery
  • Contribution to quality assurance and audit

Other

Essential: - Abililty to meet the travel needs of the post

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

12 November 2026

Last checked

12 November 2026

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Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

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