Job summary
- Main area
- Growing the Friarage & Community Services L3
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including bank holiday working)
- Job ref
- 328-FCS-7232868
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Friarage Hospital
- Town
- Northallerton
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/08/2025
Employer heading

Clinical Team Lead Physiotherapist
Band 7
Job overview
Clinical Team Lead Physiotherapist (Stroke and Complex Rehabilitation)
Rutson Ward, Friarage Hospital, Northallerton
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Team Lead Physiotherapist on Rutson Ward at the Friarage Hospital. This full-time Band 7 role is based within our stroke and complex rehabilitation service, working Monday to Friday, including Bank Holidays.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Physiotherapist with a passion for rehabilitation and leadership. As Clinical Team Lead, you will oversee a team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Therapy Assistants, working within a highly supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team that includes Nurses, Health Care Assistants, and a Consultant Therapist.
At the heart of this role is our commitment to truly patient-centred care. You will be instrumental in coordinating shared goal-setting with patients—developing integrated treatment plans that all disciplines contribute to and work from. This ensures every interaction moves the patient forward, making every contact count.
You will provide expert physiotherapy assessment and treatment, contribute to service development, and support the ongoing training and development of your team. This is an excellent opportunity to influence care delivery and quality outcomes while growing in your own leadership journey.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for leading the Inpatient Rehab service, providing expert guidance, and ensuring high standards of patient care. The role requires someone who can work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and contribute to service development, ensuring a continuous improvement culture within the department. The role requires to work in a integrated model, assessing and treating patients with varying rehabilitation needs covering Stroke rehab and patients that have complex needs ensuring that every contact counts.
The Trust provides excellent training and development opportunities, and you will be encouraged to further your professional growth while making a meaningful impact on the service.
The team is established and supportive, offering a collaborative environment where your leadership and innovative ideas will be welcomed and valued.
South Tees is committed to investing in our people, offering ongoing professional development, access to leadership training, and a supportive working culture.
If you are ready to step into a rewarding leadership role within an experienced and compassionate team, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.
Working for our organisation
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic IT skills
- Demonstrates analytical skills and judgement when dealing with the management of Stroke and complex rehab
- Audit and Research experience
- Theoretical knowledge and applied clinical practice in specialist area
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge and experience within specialist area of rehab
- Demonstrates detailed clinical reasoning skills
- Evidence of taking a lead role in MDT working
- Knowledge of relevant national guidelines and standards
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- To hold a Diploma or Degree in OT/Physio
- Registered as fit to practice by professional body (HCPC)
- Evidence of Post Graduate clinical training/ development in stroke rehab.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to evidence senior leadership experience
- Demonstrates an ability to prioritise and co-ordinate the workload of the team
- Experience of working within stroke rehabilitation within the NHS
- Experience in specialism at band 6 level including work as a Senior Physiotherapist
- Evidence of relevant post graduate courses
- Experience working as an autonomous practitioner at a band 6 level within the NHS
- Demonstrates experience of supervision and teaching more staff, students and other members of the MDT
- Experience of being a clinical specific educator
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Margaret Perkin
- Job title
- Therapy Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07721060671
- Additional information
In the first instance, please contact via email - [email protected]
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