Physiotherapy Team Lead - Outpatients
- Location
- Norwich
- Workplace
- On-site
About this role
Physiotherapy Team Lead - Outpatients | Ella May Barnes Clinic, Spire Norwich Hospital | NR4 7UQ Full Time | Permanent
Spire Norwich Hospital has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Physiotherapy Team Lead to join our dedicated outpatient physiotherapy team based at the Ella May Barnes Clinic (NR4 7UQ) & Spire Norwich Hospital.
The Role
As Physiotherapy Team Lead, you will provide clinical leadership and operational oversight for the outpatient physiotherapy service, ensuring the delivery of outstanding patient care while supporting the continued growth and success of the department.
You will lead a team of physiotherapists and support staff, maintain clinical excellence, and work collaboratively with consultants, multidisciplinary teams, and hospital leadership to deliver a first-class patient experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the outpatient physiotherapy team, providing professional and clinical leadership.
- Deliver high-quality physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation across a varied caseload.
- Ensure the department meets clinical governance, quality and safety standards.
- Support service development and identify opportunities for growth.
- Support recruitment, training and mentoring of physiotherapy colleagues.
- Build strong relationships with consultants, referrers and key stakeholders.
- Maintain excellent patient outcomes and patient satisfaction levels.
- Promote evidence-based practice and continuous quality improvement.
- Support in inpatient where required
Who We're Looking For
- BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy or equivalent qualification.
- Current HCPC registration with no restrictions.
- Significant post-registration physiotherapy experience.
- Previous experience working within an outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy setting.
- Leadership or management experience within a physiotherapy service.
- Strong clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills.
- Experience managing a varied caseload independently.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Passion for team development and delivering exceptional patient care.
Desirable
- Experience within private healthcare.
- Previous responsibility for service development and business growth.
- Injection therapy, sports physiotherapy or advanced MSK qualifications.
- Experience supporting students, junior physiotherapists or clinical supervision programmes.
Benefits:
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Free Bupa wellness screening
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications
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