Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 13/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced Clinical Lead Physiotherapist to join the multi-disciplinary TOCALS team. The role involves providing highly specialist assessments with a focus on discharge planning for a diverse patient population, including those with falls, frailty, neurological, cardiorespiratory, and trauma/orthopaedic conditions. The post holder will lead a team, support staff development, and contribute to service improvement, ensuring high-quality, person-centred care and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. This role requires participation in a flexible 7-day service and the Respiratory On-Call Service.
Key responsibilities
- Provide highly specialist assessments with a focus on discharge planning.
- Develop and implement co-produced, personalised high quality plans for patients.
- Play a key role in following patients' journeys through hospital and into the community.
- Lead a team in pressurised and fast-paced environments.
- Support leading an in-service training programme for the team.
- Undertake Clinical Supervisor duties for students.
Essential criteria
- Professional registration as recognised by HCPC.
- Significant accredited post graduate specialist physiotherapy courses within relevant clinical area
- Advanced training to Masters level training.
Desirable criteria
- MSc within relevant specialty
- Evidence of leadership courses/qualifications
- Member of the CSP
- Post graduate qualification up to post grad diploma level in relevant area
- Clinical Education Training course
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Significant post-graduate experience; including relevant experience in specialist field
- Managing a complex caseload using an advanced clinical reasoning process
- Significant experience working as an autonomous practitioner
- Significant experience in multi agency team working within specialist area
- Therapeutic handling and risk assessments
- Direct involvement with carers and families
- Evidence of supporting service compliance with clinical governance requirements
- Leadership of clinical networks/ clinical practice groups
- Experience in assisting in leading service developments
- Experience in staff development
- Experience in presenting within clinical area
- Performance Management
- Evidence of team management.
- Experience of service development across professional boundaries
- Experience in undertaking risk assessments
- Experience of health promotion and preventative developments within service
- Experience of referring for and analysing the results of tests
- Teaching & educational assessment experience
- Language Skills
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
- Qualifications and Knowledge
- Professional registration as recognised by HCPC.
- Significant accredited post graduate specialist physiotherapy courses within relevant clinical area
- Advanced training to Masters level training.
- MSc within relevant specialty
- Evidence of leadership courses/qualifications
- Member of the CSP
- Post graduate qualification up to post grad diploma level in relevant area
- Clinical Education Training course
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Significant post-graduate experience; including relevant experience in specialist field
- Managing a complex caseload using an advanced clinical reasoning process
- Significant experience working as an autonomous practitioner
- Significant experience in multi agency team working within specialist area
- Therapeutic handling and risk assessments
- Direct involvement with carers and families
- Evidence of supporting service compliance with clinical governance requirements
- Leadership of clinical networks/ clinical practice groups
- Experience in assisting in leading service developments
- Experience in staff development
- Experience in presenting within clinical area
- Performance Management
- Evidence of team management.
- Experience of service development across professional boundaries
- Experience in undertaking risk assessments
- Experience of health promotion and preventative developments within service
- Experience of referring for and analysing the results of tests
- Teaching & educational assessment experience
- Language Skills
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £50,129 – £57,365 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
This post is a Fixed Term/ Secondment until31.03.2027. If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.
Hywel Dda Health Board present an exciting opportunity, for a motivated, passionate and experienced person. They will join our multi-disciplinary front of house team, TOCALS (Transfer of Care Advice and Liaison Service), as a Clinical Lead Physiotherapist. TOCALS support a large variety of patients, presentations and pathologies, including those experiencing falls and frailty, neurological conditions, cardio respiratory conditions and trauma and orthopaedic problems (including major trauma patients).
TOCALS support prevention of unnecessary admission into an acute hospital to avoid the risks associated with this. The aim is to achieve high quality person centred care which considers the patient holistically, promoting their independence and wellbeing. TOCALS play a pivotal role in promoting excellent links between acute, intermediate, community and third sector services; this is vital to ensure continuity of care, and promote the right care, in the right place, at the first time approach.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will require extensive post graduate experience across a broad array of clini
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