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Mental Health Physiotherapy Team LeadCambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust • Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mental Health Physiotherapy Team Lead

Mental Health Physiotherapy Team Lead

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust • Cambridge, United Kingdom
14 days ago
Job type
  • Part-time
Job description
Mental Health Physiotherapy Team Lead
Closing date: 11 August 2026

Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Band 7 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.

About us
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.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
  • To be responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of physiotherapy treatment and care delivered to the patient.
  • To undertake highly specialised physiotherapy assessment and treatment as an autonomous practitioner.
  • To assess, diagnose and develop individual care/treatment plans for a range of adult/older people conditions, some of which will be highly complex or will be for patients with complex clinical, social and psychiatric needs. This frequently involves the use of manual physiotherapy skills and therapeutic exercise interventions.
  • To be responsible for reassessing patient care as treatment progresses and alter treatment programmes using knowledge and skills underpinned by clinical experience and best practice.
  • Keep the patients at the centre of care, collaborating in decision making.
  • Be able to analyse clinical and social information from a range of sources and integrate into physiotherapy assessment and development of care/treatment plan.
  • Be able to motivate and encourage patients of all ages with a range of complex conditions / disabilities to work with treatment programmes and work towards treatment goals.
  • Encourage patients and their carers in an active approach to regaining and maintaining personal independence. This requires empathy, sensitivity and good interpersonal skills.
  • To be a source of clinical expertise and advice for physiotherapy colleagues within the team and also senior colleagues from other CPFT teams when required.
  • To provide highly specialist advice on patient care to inpatients. This may involve challenging or requesting changes to treatment programmes/care plans set by other professionals.

Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
  • Degree or equivalent, e.g., BSc, MSc, or Diploma entry level qualification into the Physiotherapy profession.
  • Current HCPC registration
  • Professional knowledge and training to master's level or equivalent experience
  • Management/Leadership qualification and experience.

Desirable
  • Member of CSP
  • Member of the Chartered Physiotherapists in Mental Healthcare (CPMH)
  • Therapeutic exercise qualification, e.g. Pilates/Yoga

Experience
Essential
  • Experience of working alongside people with complex mental health conditions
  • Experience of health promotion and the inclusion of physiotherapy in mental healthcare.
  • Experience of team leadership within physiotherapy
  • Advanced understanding of clinical conditions and clinical experience in managing complex mental health presentations.
  • Clinical Supervisor

Knowledge & Skills
Essential
  • Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.
  • Good understanding of clinical supervision and appraisal.
  • Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
  • Recognises the limits of own authority within the role.

Personal Qualities
Essential
  • Be able to integrate into a team and recognise value and contribution from all team members
  • Imaginative and innovative
  • Caring and compassionate
  • Able to balance work and home life and employ strategies to manage own stress

Other
Essential
  • Advanced specialist knowledge of physiotherapy assessment, intervention, and practice models within mental healthcare
  • Knowledge of NICE guidance and other National guidance relevant to safe care and delivery in a mental health setting
  • Knowledge of Mental health act

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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