# Therapy Lead

**Company**: Priorygroup
**Location**: Southport, Lancashire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Cleveland House has an opportunity for a HCPC-registered Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist or Speech & Language Therapist to join our team as a Therapy Lead.

Priory Cleveland House is a 32-bed specialist service providing neurological rehabilitation and complex care for adults with acquired brain injury and other complex neurological conditions.

As Therapy Lead, you will be a key member of the Senior Management Team and will lead the delivery and development of therapy services across the hospital.

## Key Responsibilities

- Provide clinical, professional and operational leadership to the therapy service.

- Lead and coordinate Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy and Therapy Assistant provision.

- Maintain a clinical caseload and deliver specialist assessment, treatment and rehabilitation within your professional scope of practice.

- Support the development and delivery of person-centred rehabilitation programmes.

- Ensure high standards of clinical governance, quality, risk management and safeguarding.

- Manage therapy resources and prioritise workloads in line with service needs.

- Provide supervision, appraisal and development support to therapy colleagues.

- Contribute to admissions, discharge planning and multidisciplinary decision-making.

- Lead quality improvement, audit and service development initiatives.

- Support compliance with regulatory requirements, including CQC standards and organisational policies.

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Essential:

- HCPC registration as a Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist or Speech & Language Therapist.

- Significant post-registration clinical experience.

- Experience working within neurological rehabilitation, acquired brain injury, complex care or a comparable clinical setting.

- Experience of leadership, supervision or management of therapy staff.

- Strong understanding of clinical governance, safeguarding and risk management.

- Excellent communication and multidisciplinary working skills.

- Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable:

- Previous experience in a senior therapy leadership or management role.

- Specialist experience in acquired brain injury or neurological rehabilitation.

- Experience of service development, audit and quality improvement.

- Experience supporting complex discharge planning and admissions.

## Benefits

- Contributory pension scheme

- Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and private healthcare

- Access to development opportunities

- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel

- Leadership & management development

- Long service award

- Company Sick Pay (after 12 months)

- Refer a friend bonuses

## Skills

### Required
- HCPC registration
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech & Language Therapy
- clinical governance
- safeguarding
- risk management
- leadership
- supervision
- management

### Nice to have
- previous experience in a senior therapy leadership or management role
- specialist experience in acquired brain injury or neurological rehabilitation
- service development
- audit
- quality improvement

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