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Job summary
We are inviting expressions of interest for a Band 8b Rehabilitation Lead within Professional Support Services.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide senior leadership for rehabilitation services across Royal Papworths specialist cardio-thoracic pathways. The role will support the development of integrated rehabilitation, prehabilitation and frailty pathways, helping patients receive coordinated, high-quality care from pre-admission through to discharge and beyond.
The post holder will work closely with the Chief AHP and will provide leadership across Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy and Cardiac Rehabilitation. The role will champion rehabilitation as a core Trust priority, while recognising and promoting the unique contribution of each profession within the MDT.
We welcome expressions of interest from existing rehabilitation service leads who are interested in helping shape the next stage of rehabilitation development at Royal Papworth. Support, supervision and development will be provided as part of the role.
Main duties of the job
The Rehabilitation Lead will provide strategic, operational and professional leadership across rehabilitation services, with delegated responsibility for the rehabilitation portfolio.
The post holder will line manage service leads across rehabilitation services and will support safe, effective and coordinated delivery across pathways. They will work with teams to improve rehabilitation, prehabilitation and frailty pathways, support patient flow and discharge, reduce unwarranted variation, and identify opportunities for service improvement, productivity and income generation.
The role will involve using clinical, workforce, quality, activity and financial information to support decision-making, service redesign and assurance. The post holder will represent rehabilitation at senior forums, contribute to workforce planning and skill-mix development, and support research, audit, evaluation and improvement.
The post holder will maintain clinical credibility through clinical practice and will deputise for the Chief AHP as required.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Details
- Date posted: 01 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8b
- Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year Will be an uplift of one of the existing Rehab 8a service leads
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 175-2627-PS1881
- Job locations: Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of rehabilitation across complex cardio-thoracic pathways, underpinned by professional theory and experience.
- Significant senior clinical and operational leadership experience within rehabilitation services.
- Advanced clinical rehabilitation expertise with maintained clinical rehabilitative practice
- Extensive understanding of rehabilitation within a cardio-thoracic or specialist healthcare setting, including navigating complex clinical risk, competing priorities and high levels of dependency
- Demonstrable, significant experience of leading a service through improvement, redesign or transformation within complex healthcare environments.
- Experience of representing services or professions at Trust-wide or system-level forums.
- Highly developed experience of workforce planning, including establishment review, skill-mix development and role redesign.
- Experience of supporting or enabling clinical research, audit or service evaluation.
- Demonstrable experience of managing budgets and resources at service level.
- Ability to operate with autonomy within delegated authority.
- Demonstrable ability to apply advanced analytical and judgement skills to complex, non-routine clinical, operational, workforce and financial issues.
- Experience of analysing and interpreting complex, multi-source data to inform decision-making and prioritisation.
- Experience of influencing and presenting at senior or executive-level meetings.
Desirable
- Experience of line managing senior clinicians or service leads across multidisciplinary or multi-professional teams.
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge as a Registered Allied Health Professional/Nurse with HCPC NMV status, with masters level education or equivalent experience, supplemented by senior leadership and management training or equivalent experience.
- Postgraduate qualification/training in leadership, management, education, quality improvement or research.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Ability to work flexibly including clinical or operational on-call.
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