Paediatric Inpatient Team Lead
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
22 October 2026
3 days leftJob description
An exciting maternity cover opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Paediatric Physiotherapist to join our inpatient the...
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Knowledge and skill requirements
Essential
- Highly specialist knowledge of acute paediatric respiratory and orthopaedic physiotherapy underpinned by theory and postgraduate courses
- A highly developed knowledge and ability to meet the standards and expected criteria for this therapy service
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Leadership skills
- Supervisory skills
- Able to work within a team independently
- Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- Ability to lead change and is able to demonstrate implementation of new ways of working within a team
- Effective communication skills - oral and written
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records
- Able to provide and receive complex and /or sensitive information
- Remain updated with professional practice and new research
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its application to therapy
- Experience of Audit
- Ability to teach and pass on knowledge
- Experience of service evaluation and standard setting
- A broad understanding of the current local and national issues impacting on the Trust and service provision
- Modernisation Agenda for the NHS re new ways of working
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable: - Accredited specialist acute respiratory and paediatric orthopaedic training
Qualifications
Essential: - Degree and/or Post Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy; - State registration with HCPC
Further Training
Essential: - Speciality specific clinical and management short courses; - Leadership training; - Supervision skills course
Experience
Essential
- Substantial Post graduate senior clinical experience, most recently working as a senior therapist which includes leadership and supervisory experience
- Proven experience of being an appraiser and supervisor of clinical staff
- Experience at Band 6 level in paediatrics
- Varied rotational experience
- Supervisory experience
- NHS experience
Desirable: - Clinical educator
Contractual Requirements
Essential: - Flexible hours of working / weekend working when required
Desirable: - Car driver
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
8 October 2026
Last checked
8 October 2026
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