Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
Clinical Lead Therapist - Physical Health
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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Lead Therapist to provide expert leadership across inpatient rehabilitation services in the North locality (Peterborough/Wisbech), working in close partnership with the South locality Clinical Lead Therapist to ensure consistent, high-quality care.
Responsibilities
- Lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver person-centred rehabilitation, supporting recovery, maximising independence, and enabling safe, timely discharge.
- As an autonomous practitioner, undertake advanced assessment and clinical decision-making for patients with complex needs, while promoting integrated and high-quality care across services.
- Drive service development and continuous improvement, ensuring therapy provision is evidence-based and aligned with organisational priorities.
- Develop staff through supervision, training, and competency development, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture.
- Shape and enhance inpatient rehabilitation services, improving patient outcomes and strengthening a coordinated approach to intermediate care across the locality.
- Travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict time deadlines.
Role Requirements
- Professionally and legally accountable for their own and delegated practice, ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based care across inpatient rehabilitation services.
- Work alongside the South locality Clinical Lead Therapist, providing visible leadership across four inpatient rehabilitation units, driving standardised practice, pathways and ways of working to promote consistent, equitable care.
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams, overseeing assessment and care delivery for patients with complex needs.
- Use advanced clinical reasoning to support recovery, maximise independence, prevent avoidable admissions and reduce length of stay, ensuring care is effectively planned, prioritised and delegated.
- Lead admission avoidance, discharge planning and timely transfers of care, working closely with ward managers, Intermediate Care teams and system partners.
- Act as a specialist clinical leader, offering expert advice on rehabilitation, patient flow and discharge processes, and aligning practice across localities.
- Model compassionate communication in complex situations, support day-to-day service delivery, and provide leadership in staffing, risk management and governance.
- Lead and contribute to audit, quality improvement and service development, strengthening integrated pathways and embedding consistent models of care across all units.
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About Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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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.
Our Values
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.
Application Process
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.
Contact Information
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Carolyn Rooney
- Job title: Modern Matron
- Email address: carolyn.rooney@cpft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01733 847125
- Mobile number: 0790860929
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