
Job requirements
Essential
12 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience (Therapy Lead)
Experience of working within a community therapy service
- Experience (Clinical/Therapy Lead)
Experience of leading /managing staff within a health /social care operational environment.
- Experience (Clinical/Therapy Lead)
Recent experience and evidence of a track record of effective management of change.
- Experience (Clinical/Therapy Lead)
Evidence of teaching / training experience.
- Experience (Clinical/Therapy Lead)
Evidence and experience of relevant continuing professional development and developing clinical practice.
- Knowledge & Skills (Clinical/Therapy Team Lead)
Demonstrates an ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
- Knowledge & Skills (Clinical/Therapy Team Lead)
Effective people management skills
- Knowledge & Skills (Clinical/Therapy Team Lead)
Demonstrates a highly specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to therapy provision in the community
- Knowledge & Skills (Clinical/Therapy Team Lead)
Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Qualifications & Training (Clinical/Therapy Lead)
Registered as fit to practice by professional body, e.g. Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) / Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
- Qualifications & Training (Clinical/Therapy Lead)
To hold a Degree in relevant field awarded by professional body
- Qualifications & Training (Clinical/Therapy Lead)
Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
Are you interested in leadership and a dynamic individual looking for a new challenge in an environment that is undergoing a major change programme? Hospital at Home, Urgent community Response and Homefirst Tees has an opportunity for a permanent clinical lead post and this could be the opportunity for you.
If so, then we have the career changing opportunity for you at South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust.
We are undergoing a significant programme of radical transformation and we have a great opportunity for a clinical lead to provide leadership to the team within your area of responsibility working collaboratively with the Clinical Matron and General Manager in Hospital at Home Directorate.
Main duties of the job
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Clinical Lead / Therapy Team Lead ( with South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Middlesbrough, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Team leader role. The advertised salary is £49387.00 to £56515.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 26 Oct 2026.
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