Locality Team Lead: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and dynamic Physiotherapist to join our Community Response Service (CRS) Team as a Locality Team Lead for the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team.

The Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team provide community rehabilitation with an aim to enable patients with a wide variety of conditions to be as independent as possible within their own environment, by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and interventions. The team is comprised of registered Physiotherapists and Clinical Support Workers.

This role includes managerial responsibility for the Berwick team, working closely alongside and cross covering Locality Team Leads for Alnwick, Hexham and Blyth. The successful post holder will be expected to carry a clinical caseload and offer clinical support with complex cases.

If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received

Main duties of the job

To provide strong clinical and managerial leadership to the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

This role will involve leading and developing the CRS Physiotherapy Service, helping to deliver the NHS 10-Year Plan, driving service improvement initiatives, supporting workforce development and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, local authority and partner organisations to enhance patient outcomes and experience.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Professional Registration

Essential

  • Relevant degree or professional qualification
  • HCPC registration
  • Student educator qualification or willingness to undertake within 6 months of being appointed into post

Desirable

  • Qualification or training in management
  • Evidence of post graduate education
  • CSP Member

Experience and knowledge

Essential

  • Significant clinical experience in relevant area
  • Documented evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

  • Experience in planning service delivery
  • Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
  • Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
  • Experience of multidisciplinary working and management of multidisciplinary teams

Other requirements

Essential

  • You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 14 October 2026

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