Overview
Clinical Lead Physiotherapist – Sheppey Community Hospital
As a Band 7 Physiotherapist, you’ll be a key clinical leader within our Urgent Care Response and Intermediate Care Teams based in Sheppey, North Kent.
You will feel valued as a senior physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group, with access to a wide range of rewards, benefits and professional development opportunities, including:
- AFC Band 7 salary, NHS Pension, and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases, cashback offers, and vouchers for you and your family
- Access to your wages as you earn them, helping you manage unexpected costs without overdraft fees or high interest charges
- Comprehensive wellbeing support, including online and in-person resources to support mental and physical health — from healthy lifestyle tools to trauma support, legal and debt advice, and confidential counselling
- Outstanding CPD and career development opportunities through our Learning Enterprise, with access to specialist training, eLearning, leadership pathways, and professional growth programmes
- An open, supportive culture where your ideas are welcomed and backed by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working within services consistently rated “Good” or “Outstanding” by the CQC, with a strong focus on quality and patient-centred care
- On-site parking at your base location
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
About the Role
We’re looking for a highly skilled and confident Physiotherapist to take on a senior clinical and leadership position within our Urgent Care Response and Intermediate Care Teams. You’ll be responsible for day-to-day team operations, caseload oversight, staff support, and the delivery of expert rehabilitation for patients with complex needs.
This role offers a balance of advanced clinical work, service improvement, and professional leadership — perfect for someone ready to step up or already working at senior level.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll lead the physiotherapy function across both services, ensuring high-quality, patient-centred care. This includes:
- Providing specialist assessment, diagnosis and rehabilitation for complex cases
- Overseeing physiotherapy staff, caseloads, and resources
- Supporting and deputising for senior managers as required
- Contributing to service development, clinical standards, and evidence-based practice
- Supporting and developing colleagues through supervision, mentoring, and training
- Ensuring compliance with documentation, governance, audit and CQC requirements
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- Physiotherapy degree and HCPC registration
- CSP membership
- Experience in Urgent Care Response and/or Intermediate Care
- Strong clinical experience working with complex rehabilitation and Older Adults
- Experience supporting or supervising junior staff
- Excellent communication, organisation, and clinical reasoning
- Confident with IT systems and digital documentation
- Committed to professional development and evidence-based practice
Desirable
- MSc in management/leadership (or equivalent experience)
- Experience in service development or policy implementation
- Experience delivering training or presenting at conferences
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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