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Locality Team Lead

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Berwick, TD15 1EDView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

1 October 2026

3 days left

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and dynamic Physiotherapist to join our Community Response Service (CRS) Team as a Lo...

To provide strong clinical and managerial leadership to the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

This role will involve leading and developing the CRS Physiotherapy Service, helping to deliver the NHS 10-Year Plan, driving service improvement initiatives, supporting workforce development and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, local authority and partner organisations to enhance patient outcomes and experience.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Qualifications / Professional Registration

Essential

  • Relevant degree or professional qualification
  • HCPC registration
  • Student educator qualification or willingness to undertake within 6 months of being appointed into post

Desirable: - Qualification or training in management; - Evidence of post graduate education; - CSP Member

Experience and knowledge

Essential: - Significant clinical experience in relevant area; - Documented evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

  • Experience in planning service delivery
  • Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
  • Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
  • Experience of multidisciplinary working and management of multidisciplinary teams

Other requirements

Essential

  • You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

21 September 2026

Last checked

23 September 2026

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About the employer

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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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