Job summary
- Main area
- Intermediate Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-DW0044
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Health
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Professional Team Lead
Band 7
Job overview
Are you an experienced clinician ready to lead and inspire?
Join us as a Band 7 Community Occupational Therapy Team Lead at Fleet Community Hospital, where you’ll provide expert clinical and professional leadership within our Community Bridging Service. In this pivotal role, you’ll manage a small, complex caseload, support recovery for patients with long-term conditions, and drive service development in partnership with multidisciplinary teams.
We’re seeking a registered professional (Physiotherapist, OT, or Nurse) with advanced clinical skills, a passion for high standards, and proven leadership experience. If you thrive on making a difference, value collaborative working, and are committed to delivering outstanding care in a dynamic community setting, we want to hear from you
Main duties of the job
To provide expert clinical leadership within community services and the wider Integrated Care Teams as appropriate to provide high standards of rehab, recovery advice and input to patients to avoid unnecessary admission to secondary care.
Undertake professional leadership role in the community. Act as a clinical exemplar within the team and locality.
Working with partners in primary, secondary and social care to support an enhanced recovery model which works in partnership with ICTs and complex case management.
To act as an autonomous clinician accountable for both your own and all delegated clinical tasks.
Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other care professionals individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring on to other services or professionals as appropriate.
Contribute to the development of service strategy and clinical standard operating procedures.
Establish local networks in partnership with other health and social professionals/agencies and national links with other generalists in order to develop protocols according to national and local guidelines for the safe and effective provision of community therapies.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can read more about the key tasks and responsibilities associated with this role in the job description attached with this advert, including the administrative and organisational duties, involvement in social and digital media development and monitoring and forward planning.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification e.g. registered Physiotherapist. OT or nurse. Educated to degree level
Desirable criteria
- Educated to master’s level.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex recovery needs and long term/chronic disease management.
- Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments.
- Knowledge of current political drivers, health and social care issues.
- Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience of different care sectors, eg acute, Adult Services, community.
Experince
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical practice
- Leading complex recovery/care co-ordination.
- Proactively manage complex long-term conditions.
- Knowledge of managing cognitive impairment and mental well being.
- Supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence
- Developing highly specialised programmes of recovery, providing advice concerning treatment of patients.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of practice within Adult Services and/or Voluntary Organisations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kelly Gray
- Job title
- Senior Community Matron RN DN QN
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07557926032
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