Job Description

If you're an ambitious, proactive, and experienced Physiotherapist looking to be part of a supportive team and use your expert skills to provide excellent community care, we'd love to hear from you. Our aim is to maximise opportunities for the people living in our communities to be as independent as possible in what matters to them, living full and active lives within their family circles, social networks, and the workplace.



We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Lead Community Physiotherapist in our West Community Therapy Team Chichester to come and work in the service delivering the aim above via holistic, personalised, therapeutic care. You will work as part of well-established wider Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) across our local communities, where you will provide support across both proactive community rehabilitation and urgent care pathways. Our teams work flexibly to provide a five-day service, between 8am and 6pm.



We will support you to make full use of your skills at whatever stage of your career to:



Provide specialist, holistic assessments, and reviews to improve or maintain quality of life.



Support individuals to take increased ownership and control over their health through rehabilitation interventions, personalised care planning and goal setting.



Provide an urgent response to minimise crisis situations and the need for emergency interventions or hospital admissions.



In this role, you will provide clinical and professional leadership, ensuring effective governance and clinical support for staff working within the service.



Working with the operational leads, you will ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and the delivery of an excellent patient experience. You will develop key partnerships, working to ensure successful system working through effective communication and networking with other disciplines, by working across professional and service boundaries.



You will be part of the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. Central to this is supporting the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff, supporting each other, and learning together.



You will use your specialist clinical assessment and intervention skills for complex patients and provide clinical advice and support to colleagues to enable individual and team development. You will be responsible for staff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews of members of the team.



You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence due to the geographic area covered by the team.



Why work for us?



positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly



Rated 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)



Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast



A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients' homes and in our community hospitals



Excellent training and development opportunities



Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay



Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.



Supportive team environments



Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton



Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks



Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces



Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff.



Our Trust and leadership teams are committed to supporting your work/life balance via flexible working and tailored support to help you advance your clinical practice and leadership skills in style that suits you, your health and wellbeing and your future career aspirations. This is an ideal opportunity to bring your skills and develop them in a flexible, supportive, and positive community service.



Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.