Community Therapy Team Lead

Overview

In this Band 7 Team Lead role, you will provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership for the community therapy service, ensuring safe, evidence-based practice and adherence to guidelines. You will work within the therapy and wider MDT to deliver high-quality care while driving service development and governance. You’ll manage your own caseload with advanced clinical decision-making and supervise staff to maintain service quality. This role offers an opportunity to shape community therapy provision within a large NHS trust with a focus on impact and collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• fantastic annual leave allowance
• flexible working opportunities
• protected hours for health and wellbeing activities
• competitive benefits package

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced assessment and independent, high-quality therapeutic interventions
• Manage own caseload with clinical autonomy and prioritisation
• Lead service development and governance, ensuring objectives and targets are met
• Oversee daily service operations, set performance objectives, and provide staff supervision and development
• Deliver specialist therapy advice to professionals across the trust
• Provide line management responsibilities, including performance feedback and staff development
• Collaborate with MDTs and external partners to optimise care pathways
• Contribute to policies, protocols, audits/research as appropriate

Key requirements

• HCPC registration
• Relevant professional health-related degree
• Substantive post-registration experience
• Extensive knowledge of urgent and/or community settings
• Knowledge of local health and social care pathways
• Experience in management of long-term conditions (e.g., dementia, COPD, CHD)
• Demonstrable leadership experience
• Desirable: advanced level clinical qualification; leadership qualification
• IT skills
• Ability to promote and support own professional development
• Ability to motivate and contribute to MDT development

• leadership and people management
• strong communication and collaboration
• motivation and professional development
• IT skills
• advanced clinical assessment and intervention techniques
• clinical governance and policy development

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