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Clinical Lead / Therapy Team Lead (

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Middlesbrough, TS6 6TDView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

26 October 2026

7 days left

Job description

Are you interested in leadership and a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge in an environment that is undergoing a major change programme? H...

You will provide assurance of safety, quality and the overall patient experience as well as ensuring the effective day to day management of nursing/ therapy in your area to deliver key quality, performance and financial plans to achieve key service and standards improvements.

To support the trust's future success, you will:

  • Ensure cost controls in your area expenditure in line with agreed budgets
  • Work with the Clinical Director for Hospital at Home to develop new models of working.
  • Ensure provision of excellent standards of clinical practice
  • Inspire a culture of excellence focused on patient engagement and experience
  • Ensuring patient safety is a priority with regular audits in place to monitor compliance
  • Responsible for standards of care being provided
  • Have a proven track record of leadership developing a culture of high performance
  • Promote an environment where learning, research and innovation are actively encouraged and promoted

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that will be critical to the success of a truly transformed future state for the trust and will fundamentally challenge traditional processes and ways of thinking to build an industry leading service that provides excellent quality care to the communities in which we serve.

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Experience (Therapy Lead)

Essential: - Experience of working within a community therapy service

Qualifications & Training (Clinical/Therapy Lead)

Essential

  • Registered as fit to practice by professional body, e.g. Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) / Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
  • To hold a Degree in relevant field awarded by professional body
  • Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development

Knowledge & Skills (Clinical/Therapy Team Lead)

Essential

  • Demonstrates an ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
  • Effective people management skills
  • Demonstrates a highly specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to therapy provision in the community
  • Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills

Experience (Clinical/Therapy Lead)

Essential

  • Experience of leading /managing staff within a health /social care operational environment.
  • Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.
  • Evidence of teaching / training experience.
  • Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice.

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

19 October 2026

Last checked

19 October 2026

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About the employer

STH
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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