Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Band Mental Health Physiotherapy Lead to provide clinical leadership across our inpatient services for Older Adults, Adults, and Specialist Directorates. This role is ideal for a highly motivated physiotherapist who thrives in a fast‑paced multidisciplinary environment and is passionate about delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred care.
You will lead and support physiotherapy teams across a diverse range of mental health inpatient wards, ensuring excellent clinical standards, effective service delivery, and a culture of continuous improvement. The postholder will play a key role in shaping service development, supporting workforce growth, and driving innovation in rehabilitation pathways, promoting the role of physiotherapy within mental health settings and a driving a holistic approach to patient care.
Main duties of the job
- To be the lead for the Mental Health Physiotherapy Team within the Trust.
- To set and provide a high standard of specialist physiotherapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients with mental health needs, carers and families. Undertaking the lead role in the assessment, diagnosis and formulation of physiotherapy treatment plans.
- To provide clinical and operational supervision, and act as a source of specialist advice and education to physiotherapists, technical instructors and assistants, as well as the wider multi-disciplinary team.
- To lead on, and co-ordinate, opportunities for service review and development within the team.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly underrepresented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
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