Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and dynamic Physiotherapist to join our Community Response Service (CRS) Team as a Locality Team Lead for the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team.

The Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team provide community rehabilitation with an aim to enable patients with a wide variety of conditions to be as independent as possible within their own environment, by providing specialist physiotherapy assessment and interventions. The team is comprised of registered Physiotherapists and Clinical Support Workers.

This role includes managerial responsibility for the Berwick team, working closely alongside and cross covering Locality Team Leads for Alnwick, Hexham and Blyth. The successful post holder will be expected to carry a clinical caseload and offer clinical support with complex cases.

If you would like to discuss the post further, we welcome visits from interested candidates.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received

Main duties of the job
To provide strong clinical and managerial leadership to the Berwick CRS Physiotherapy Team to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

This role will involve leading and developing the CRS Physiotherapy Service, helping to deliver the NHS 10-Year Plan, driving service improvement initiatives, supporting workforce development and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, local authority and partner organisations to enhance patient outcomes and experience.

About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Details
Date posted: 21 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 319-8229087LH
Job locations: McDonald House, Wallace Green, Berwick, TD15 1ED, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Provide line management, supervision, appraisal, support, guidance and training to Physiotherapists and Clinical Support Workers.
• Responsibility for finance, performance, governance and human resources.
• Responsibility for investigating incidents and complaints.
• Responsibility for budget management, resource allocation, workforce planning and recruitment.
• Ensuring all clinical services are compliant in relation to patient safety and quality standards, in line with relevant professional, Trust and NICE guidelines.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
• Responsibility for managing and maintaining team roster.
• Expectation to travel between trust sites for meetings.
• Contribute to service development.
• Triage and prioritise new referrals received into the service.
• Responsibility for a designated varied caseload of patients.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations using clinical reasoning skills.
• Support patients with individualised goal setting, education and care plans to work towards fulfilling their potential in a goal orientated way.
• Working in partnership with patients, relatives, reablement staff, and externally with other agencies.
• Completing all required training and ensuring own continued professional development.
• Providing clinical support and advice to the team.
• Support delivery of high-quality, evidence-based physiotherapy service within community setting.
• Drive quality improvement, service transformation and innovation
• Deputising for the Community Physiotherapy Clinical Manager

Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential

• Relevant degree or professional qualification
• HCPC registration
• Student educator qualification or willingness to undertake within 6 months of being appointed into post

Desirable

• Qualification or training in management
• Evidence of post graduate education
• CSP Member

Experience and knowledge
Essential

• Significant clinical experience in relevant area
• Documented evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Experience in planning service delivery
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
• Experience of multidisciplinary working and management of multidisciplinary teams

Other requirements
Essential

• You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

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).

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