Band 8a Clinical Team Lead - Therapies

Job Summary

We are delighted to offer an exciting 12-month fixed term/secondment opportunity for an experienced and innovative therapist to join our supportive, forward-thinking therapy team as a Clinical Team Leader.

This is a unique leadership role spanning Solihull Elective General Surgery Therapy Team, Solihull Community Respiratory Team, and Outpatient Respiratory Services

You will play a key role in leading these services, enabling ongoing service transformation and pathway developments both locally, across UHB and at system level as well as delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.

With a primary base at Solihull Hospital, this role also includes cross-site working, offering variety and the opportunity to build strong relationships across teams and organisations. You will be part of a welcoming senior leadership team, contributing to the strategic direction of services in partnership with clinical and operational colleagues, including the Integrated Care Board (ICB).

This role is ideally suited to a clinician with a respiratory background who is looking to further develop their leadership and management experience within a dynamic and evolving service.

The Trust is committed to providing a 7 day therapy services and applicants must be prepared to participate in 7 day working, contributing to a weekend rota.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

The successful candidate will provide compassionate, and effective leadership across multidisciplinary therapy teams, supporting a positive culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and staff wellbeing. You will hold direct line management responsibility for teams across surgical and respiratory pathways, including respiratory nursing colleagues, ensuring safe staffing, performance management, and professional development.

You will bring clinical expertise in respiratory care, maintaining a small clinical caseload while providing clinical oversight across community and outpatient services. You will ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, evidence-based care, with a strong focus on patient experience and outcomes.

Working closely with Therapy Leads, Clinical Team Leads, and wider stakeholders, you will contribute to service planning, operational delivery, and strategic development. The role requires strong partnership working across acute, community, and system-wide services, supporting integrated care delivery. A key aspect of the role will involve facilitating quality improvement initiatives, including pathway redesign to ensure services are responsive to patient and system needs.

The role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work across sites, managing competing priorities.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your leadership career within a supportive, innovative, and patient-focused environment.

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Master's degree or equivalent
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Clinical qualification at degree level or equivalent
• Current professional registration with the HCPC
• Management, Leadership or teaching qualification
  
  

Desirable

• Management, leadership or teaching qualification
  
  

Experience

Essential

• Significant management experience within the NHS
• Extensive clinical experience in a clinical area relevant to the clinical team
• Significant experience working as part of an MDT
• Able to demonstrate experience of patient and public engagement
• Able to demonstrate experience of operational management knowledge and skills
• Track record of delivering services with national and local targets
• Managing programmes of organisational change that have led to tangible improvements
• Multi-disciplinary team leadership
• Demonstrates excellent clinical service provision relevant to post and commensurate with grade
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of interdisciplinary working
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of managing budgets and resources
• Experience of clinical pathway development and redesign
  
  

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Ability to act flexibly, collaboratively and independently to ensure the service meets its delivery objectives
• Ability to interpret national policy and initiatives, planning local implementation
• Proven leadership, management of changes skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with professional groups and senior management at both local and regional levels
• Professional and personal credibility to inspire trust and confidence
• Numeracy and analytical skills
• Ability to identify, prioritise and manage critical issues and multiple priorities
• Able to work with others in developing and delivering creative solutions
• Demonstrable team membership and development skills
• Leadership -- able to evidence ability to inspire and support others
• Ability to deliver empowered working teams
• Ability to manage change and conflict ensuring resolution
• Ability to cope with flexible working patterns and adapt to change, capacity and demand
• Enthusiasm
• Flexibility
• Commitment
• Willingness to take responsibility
• Confidence
• Able to maintain judgement under pressure
• Assertive
• Ability to participate in weekend working, supporting delivery of extended and 7 day Therapy services
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post -- holds a UK driving licence and has use of a vehicle for work purposes
  
  

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.

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

Katie Wood

katie.wood@uhb.nhs.uk

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57528.00 to £64750.00 Yearly

Contract

Fixed Term

Duration

12 Month(s)

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-9016146

Job locations

Solihull Hospital

Lode Ln

Solihull

West Midlands

B91 2JL

Attachments

Job Description

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