Main area Integrated Community Stroke Service (ICSS) Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (We will consider 0.8 WTE) Job ref 190-0798-DIR
Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Community Stroke Service and SPARC Town Sheffield
Salary £47,810 - £54,710 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 18/09/2025 23:59
Interview date 01/10/2025
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
As a Clinical specialist physiotherapist you will be accountable for ensuring the provision of high-quality therapy care across relevant clinical pathways within Acute Therapy Services. Deliver expert-level clinical practice, utilizing advanced clinical reasoning to support effective patient care and provide guidance and mentorship to therapy staff. You will lead the ongoing evaluation and development of clinical practice within the specialist area, ensuring alignment with current national and local policies, guidelines, and professional frameworks. Contribute to the development of evidence-based practice through clinical audit, effectiveness reviews, and research activities, while supporting the wider team in embedding outcomes into service improvement. Collaborate with Clinical Service Managers and Lead Therapists to drive the modernization and continuous improvement of Therapy Services, promoting innovation and service excellence.
Main duties of the job
You will manage a complex caseload requiring advanced clinical reasoning and specialist intervention. Responsibilities include supporting recruitment processes, conducting appraisals, addressing performance issues, and contributing to service integration and development across occupational therapy and physiotherapy. The role also involves leading clinical networks, developing care pathways, overseeing risk assessments and clinical protocols, and supporting operational leadership. You will be expected to maintain up-to-date specialist knowledge and applying evidence-based practice are integral to delivering high standards of patient care.
* Manage complex clinical caseloads requiring advanced reasoning and specialist therapy.
* Supervise, train, and delegate tasks to junior staff and assistants to ensure safe and competent practice.
* Support recruitment and act as Appointing Officer for the team.
* Monitor and appraise clinical performance; address competence or capability issues.
* Communicate professionally to resolve complex issues and support staff development.
* Contribute to the integration of services and leadership within the specialty.
* Conduct risk assessments, develop protocols, and contribute to safe systems of work.
* Assist operational leads with service management responsibilities.
* Maintain and apply current specialist knowledge and best practice evidence.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Skills and Knowledge
* Excellent team working skills and the ability to work collaboratively with specific reference to current NHS landscape
* Able to demonstrate strong, confident leadership within a care pathway and across the wider system.
* Excellent interpersonal, communication, team working and leadership skills
* Excellent organisational skills, ability to act on own initiative, to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks for self and other.
* Ability to analyse complex problems, formulate solutions and implement sustainable change.
* Able to maintain confidentiality
* IT literate
* Demonstrates a proactive approach to supporting staff health and wellbeing.
Experience
* Extensive experience as a qualified therapist
* Significant experience at Specialist level in relevant specialty
* Clinical Educator
* Participation in Clinical Audit & Practice Development
* Supervision and line management of Therapy staff including appraisal
* Professional Presentations
* Demonstrates a clear understanding of the pathways and role of acute therapy within the wider system.
* Post-registration NHS experience as a Physiotherapist
* Demonstrates the ability to deliver high level decision making regarding rehabilitation and discharges.
* Member of Special Interest Group
* Governance
* Teaching
Qualifications and Education
* BSc in Physiotherapy
* Current HPC Registration
* Postgraduate Masters level module in relevant subject to this post or equivalent relevant knowledge and skills accumulated through formal training and experiential learning
* Current documented evidence of continuous personal & professional development, relevant to the current post
* Current advanced clinical knowledge and skill in specialty
* Current knowledge of evidence-base for specialty
* Good basic knowledge of therapy practice for management of frailty, deconditioning, secondary prevention related to speciality and health coaching approaches
* Master’s degree in relevant Speciality
Personal Qualities
* Flexible and reliable approach to working practices
* Positive attitude to change management
* Proactive approach to service delivery
* Full driving licence and access to a car
Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here .
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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.
Name Gavin Church
Job title Operational lead community stroke services
Email address gavin.church@nhs.neyt
Telephone number 07709442817
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