Community Physiotherapy Clinical Manager

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and dynamic Physiotherapist to join our Community Response Service Team as a Community Physiotherapy Clinical Manager. The Community Response Service Team work across Northumberland and North Tyneside, (including Single Point of Access, Hospital at Home, Community Therapy Services, Occupational Therapy Specialist Services, Acute Discharge Services and Intermediate Care Units) to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital or to facilitate an earlier discharge from hospital.

The successful candidate will provide strong clinical and operational leadership to our Community Therapy Teams to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care – supporting patients to remain safely at home and reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

This role will involve leading and developing the Community Therapy Services, helping to deliver the NHS 10-Year Plan, driving service improvement initiatives and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, local authority and partner organisations to enhance patient outcomes and experience.

With teams based in North Tyneside, Seaton Delaval, Blyth, Hexham, Alnwick and Berwick, this role spans diverse communities. You will be instrumental in ensuring equitable, high-quality care across the patch.

This is a rewarding role for an ambitious and compassionate leader looking to shape the future of Community Therapy Services and make a meaningful difference to patients.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical and operational leadership across Community Therapy teams.
• Responsibility for finance, performance, governance and human resources.
• Ensure all clinical services are compliant in relation to patient safety and quality standards, in line with relevant professional, Trust and NICE guidelines.
• To line manage all staff within the Physiotherapy team, including responsibility for recruitment, appraisal and CPD.
• Ensure resources are monitored and controlled through robust financial and resource management.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Support delivery of high-quality, evidence-based physiotherapy services within community setting
• Support delivery of admission avoidance, urgent community response and facilitation of early discharge from hospital to support independent living for patients at home through rehabilitation
• Lead and support staff performance, supervision, appraisal and professional development
• Take responsibility for budget management, resource allocation, workforce planning and recruitment
• Drive quality improvement, service transformation and innovation
• Support governance processes including incident management, audit and risk management
• Ensure all clinical services are compliant in relation to patient safety and quality standards, in line with relevant professional, Trust and NICE guidelines.
• The post holder will work clinically as an advanced clinical practitioner
• Provide a link to Trust wide Physiotherapist Lead and AHP lead within Northumbria Healthcare
• Act as the departments representative and promote the department at a Trust and Primary Care Organisational level
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, primary care, local authority, acute partners
• Provide education and training that is accessed by a broad range of health professionals and by employees
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership
• Accountable to the Senior Manager
• Work alongside Operational Services Managers and Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
• To support in areas of strategic service planning and development