Clinical Lead Physiotherapist - Community Therapy Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Lead Community Physiotherapist in our Community Therapy Team West based in 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, and 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 be able to drive with a full UK licence due to the geographic area covered by the team.

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• 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.
  
• Provide clinical and professional leadership, ensuring effective governance and clinical support for staff.
  
• Ensure the clinical effectiveness of the service and delivery of an excellent patient experience.
  
• Develop key partnerships and successful system working through effective communication and networking with other disciplines.
  
• Participate in the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives.
  
• Support principles of interdisciplinary working and cross‑skilling for all staff, encouraging mutual support and learning.
  
• Use specialist clinical assessment and intervention skills for complex patients and provide clinical advice and support to colleagues to enable individual and team development.
  
• Manage staff, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and performance development reviews.
  
• Drive with a full UK licence, covering the geographic area of the team.
  

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays. Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

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• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
  
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
  
• Flexible working options: part‑time, flexi‑time, annualised hours, and flexi‑retirement
  
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
  
• Cost‑effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
  
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
  
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
  
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
  

Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence – guide everything we do.