Clinical Lead Physiotherapist - Hospital Paediatric Services
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
LONDON, SE1 7EH
Salary
£75,328 to £86,114
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 September 2026
2 days left
Job description
Are you an experienced paediatric physiotherapy leader ready to shape the future of children's services within one of the UK's leading healthcare orga...
As Clinical Lead Physiotherapist, you will provide strategic, operational and professional leadership for paediatric physiotherapy services across Evelina London Children's Hospital. Leading a large and diverse team of physiotherapists, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred care while driving service improvement, innovation and transformation. You will work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues, senior leaders and professional networks to shape and develop services that meet the needs of children, young people and their families.
The role includes leadership of workforce development, clinical governance, quality improvement, education and research activity, alongside maintaining expert clinical practice within your specialist area. You will play a key role in delivering major service developments, supporting integrated models of care, influencing professional practice locally and nationally, and creating an environment where staff can thrive, develop and deliver excellent outcomes for patients.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best-known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 23,500 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Qualifications
Essential
- First degree in physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
- Evidence of expert clinical and professional development and training in rehabilitation physiotherapy practice
- Recognised post-graduate study at M-level (e.g. MSc)
Desirable
- Member of relevant multi professional interest group
Previous experience
Essential
- Proven leadership and evidence of team management and supervision
- Expert theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the management of patients with a sub-speciality of paediatric conditions acquired through extensive experience as an autonomous clinical expert
- Evidence of challenging traditional models/processes of care and suggesting/implementing innovations in clinical practice
- Significant experience of service development/re-modelling/transformation
Desirable
- Previous experience at Clinical Lead or Consultant level
- Experience of establishing new training programmes and teaching courses
Skills
Essential
- Expert theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the management patients with a sub-speciality of paediatric conditions
- Able to demonstrate leadership ability with multi-professional teams - to take responsibility, make decisions and exert appropriate authority within a directorate/organisation.
- Ability to manage change and contain conflict ensuring resolution with positive outcomes; to build rapport, listen, negotiate and persuade.
- Show resilience and determination and demonstrate leadership in contexts that are unfamiliar, complex and unpredictable
Desirable
- Knowledge of finance/budgets
- Able to take responsibility, make decisions and exert appropriate authority across organisational boundaries.
Physical
Essential
- Objective, calm, professional demeanour - ability to frequently cope with working in a stressful environment and with intense concentration
- Able to carry out concurrent activities (multi-tasking) and work in an unpredictable working patterns
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First seen
21 August 2026
Last checked
25 August 2026
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