Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7183344
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maudsley Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of inner HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Physiotherapy
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic person to be our Head of Physiotherapy for the Trust. They will need to have a strong interest and passion for working in mental health. They will manage a small team of physiotherapists and clinical exercise staff across the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will work clinically with patients with complex needs and provide clinical support to the team and the wider physiotherapy staff in the directorates.
Main duties of the job
- Proactively ensuring the professional standards, quality and effective professional supervision and management of physiotherapy and clinical exercise team across the Trust.
- Promote the development of physiotherapists and clinical exercise practitioners across the trust, include active, ongoing student input/support and link with local Universities.
- Providing strategic leadership across the Trust, ensuring representational and advisory role both internally (e.g. physical health committee, other relevant initiatives) and externally for the physiotherapy service.
- To provide clinical expertise, supervision and support across the Trust for all physiotherapists and clinical exercise leads.
- Develop, influence and set up new physiotherapy care pathways across the Trust and collate evidence to demonstrate value.
- Identify and lead on clinical research, audit and data collection priorities for the physiotherapy and clinical exercise services.
Working for our organisation
By coming to work at our Trust, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. The Trust delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
To provide a direct clinical service and clinical cover for physiotherapy staff as appropriate.
Communication
To represent the physiotherapy services corporately within the organisation and with local partners to provide and disseminate information appropriately, ensuring effective communication structures for the physiotherapy services.
To have a high professional profile within the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP) and other organisations that will enable national and local promotion and dissemination of knowledge and expertise on behalf of the Trust.
To pursue a professional development plan that will support this and extend professional knowledge.
Documentation
To oversee and maintain up-to-date written and electronic records and activity data, in accordance with professional and Trust standards.
Leadership, Supervision & Appraisal
To provide a strong professional lead to improve and develop physiotherapy and clinical exercise services in line with service and client needs, corporate objectives and legislative requirements.
To provide professional supervision for senior physiotherapy staff and clinical exercise lead as per trust supervision.
To promote the professional contribution of the physiotherapists, to offer guidance and support and to appraise their performance in conjunction with their managers.
To line manage corporate physiotherapy staff and clinical exercise team.
To use meetings with the Professional Head of OT to review performance and set common objectives.
Training Staff & Students to ensure physiotherapy students have placements in the Trust and to ensure quality standards for these.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HPC registered Physiotherapist Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy MSc/MA or MPhiI or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Relevant management qualification
- Experience of working collaboratively with users of mental health services
- Experience of working collaboratively with the Education Consortia
- Experience of managing a range of staff from various professional backgrounds
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working as a physiotherapist, Including senior clinical experience and experience of line management
- Experience of managing or facilitating change, developing and nurturing physiotherapy and clinical exercise skills.
- Experience of developing new physiotherapy services and capturing data to demonstrate the need, vale and impact of physiotherapy services.
- Experience of working collaboratively with the CSP and exercise related groups. • Experience of training and supervising students
Desirable criteria
- Experience of inner city, multicultural environments
- Experience of working with service users with complex or challenging behaviours.
- Experience of working with mental health service users in other contexts.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to develop and implement appropriate service strategies Commitment to ensuring that services meet the needs of service users and their carers
- Ability and skill to work collaboratively with senior multi-disciplinary staff
- Ability to develop, deliver and evaluate actions plans linked to strategies
- Skill and ability to guide and support staff in reflective practice through supervision
- • Skills to lead staff and manage and facilitate change effectively • Ability to manage financial resources effectively • Negotiation, diplomacy and arbitration skill
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of issues relating to clinical exercise and physical activity within health services
- An understanding of pre-and post-registration training issues for physiotherapists
Other
Essential criteria
- Membership of relevant professional specialist interest group
- Willingness to develop and advance own learning
Desirable criteria
- Lived experience of mental health problems/challenge
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Gabrielle Richards
- Job title
- Chief of Allied Health Professional
- Email address
- [email protected]
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