R1 - (GH) Physiotherapy Team Lead

Job details

• Job reference: 261704
• Salary: Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)
• Job closing date: 28/10/2026
• Job Type: Allied Health Professions
• Location: NHS Lothian
• Employment type: Permanent
• Hours Per Week: 18
• Job posted date: 07/10/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
• Department: Physiotherapy

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Post - Physiotherapy Team Lead

Grade - Band 7

Contract – Permanent

Hours of work – 18.0hrs

We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 7 Physiotherapy Team Lead to join our dynamic Pan Lothian Community Neurological Rehabilitation Team. Our service supports people with neurological conditions to maximise independence and achieve meaningful goals within their homes and communities.

Rehabilitation is delivered flexibly through a combination of domiciliary visits, outpatient clinics, and virtual appointments, supporting safe transitions from hospital and ongoing community-based care. The service provides neurological rehabilitation clinics across Lothian, including specialist clinics such as Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) and Spasticity Management.

As Team Lead, you will provide operational and strategic leadership for our neurological community physiotherapy service, supported by experienced Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners and working closely with the wider multidisciplinary team and Service Lead. You will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, equitable, and person-centred care, while driving service development, innovation, and continuous improvement across Lothian.

Your leadership will help ensure we deliver high‑quality, person‑centred, and equitable care.

It is essential you have a Degree in Physiotherapy with relevant post graduate clinical and leadership knowledge, experience, and skills. As this is a leadership role you should have excellent communication skills and be able to lead a team. Whilst other options will be considered, to meet the service needs the preferred hours of working are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday AM.

Due to the clinical nature of this role interviews will be carried out in person

For further information regarding this post please do not hesitate to contact

Jane Shiels Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Service Lead, 0131 537 9160; jane.shiels@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk

Clinical, professional and managerial responsibility for area of responsibility including clinical and staff governance issues. The post holder is responsible for maximising service provision, including the delivery of safe and effective clinical practice, ensuring that all local and national guidelines and targets are adhered to and met.

To act independently to provide a full comprehensive specialist service of assessment, diagnosis, treatment/appropriate management, onward referral and discharge to a complex range of patients referred to the service.

Please note: As this post is part-time, the salary will be pro-rata.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Jane Shiels on 01315379160 or at Jane.shiels@nhs.scot

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.