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Nuffield Health Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead

The closing date is 01 December 2026

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Job summary

Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead Vale Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent | Part Time | Up to £49,000 per annum pro rata dependent on skills and experience 37.5 Hours per week

Main duties of the job

As our Physiotherapy Lead you will: Be responsible for rota management of the inpatient team Maintain clinical workload alongside managerial duties. Work with Consultants to ensure best practice Take responsibilities for challenges, driving quality service and outcomes Have the autonomy to develop and grow the department Integrate with the wider hospital teams to ensure best patient outcomes Maintain HIW standards at all times, undertake departmental risk assessments, maintain plans for minimising incidents, and report appropriately. Involvement in recruitment and HR responsibilities Demonstrable passion for excellence and driving standards To be proactive, adaptable and innovative Confident communicating skills with excellent customer service standards and dealing with escalations Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

About us

Vale Hospital The Vale Hospital is a purpose built, modern hospital located in beautiful surroundings of the Vale of Glamorgan. We provide 30 in-patient rooms within a very tranquil hospital setting and were recently identified as one of the top 30 most technologically advanced hospitals in the world. We host 2 fully digital ultra clean air operating theatres, an excellent physiotherapy department, 24-hour high dependency, surgical and medical RMO cover and exemplary outpatients and diagnostic service. The patient feedback for our hospital is one of the best within the Nuffield Health estate and this is something our staff and consultants are very proud of.

Details

Date posted

03 November 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

JR0102669

Job locations

Hensol Castle Park

Cardiff

CF72 8JX

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead Vale Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent | Part Time | Up to £49,000 per annum pro rata dependent on skills and experience 37.5 Hours per week The Physiotherapy team currently have an opportunity for a Inpatient Lead Physiotherapist at the Vale Hospital. Continue your journey with us whilst we'll support you to be your best. Whatever you do, we want to give you every opportunity to broaden your experience and understanding and to develop you both personally and professionally at Nuffield Health. We want you invested in us for the long term, and we'll offer you an abundance of interesting and varied roles. You may want to consider stepping into something completely new to give you the fresh challenge you've been seeking. Where possible, please make sure you have had a conversation with your current manager about applying for this role. We are looking for an ambitious Inpatient Lead to lead the Inpatient Physiotherapy service, ensuring delivery of high quality effective clinical care through assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of treatment. You will provide leadership, motivation and supervision of all members of the inpatient physiotherapy team as well as providing clinical care for patients. You will bring experience from working within a hospital setting and managing people, but also deliver treatment to patients. You will integrate with staff from Inpatient physiotherapy team, pre-assessment, Theatres and the Ward. You will be responsible for the delivery of safe effective care services that provides patients with the highest level of customer experience within Physiotherapy, identifying and delivering quality improvement opportunities. You will work with the Integrated Clinical Services Manager, Matron and Hospital Director to deliver relevant aspects of the Hospital business plan. You'll be working in an innovative, clean, modern working environment, while benefiting from support and training opportunities, plus the time and nurse-patient ratio that ensures quality of care. As our Physiotherapy Lead you will:

Be responsible for rota management of the inpatient team

Maintain clinical workload alongside managerial duties.

Work with Consultants to ensure best practice

Take responsibilities for challenges, driving quality service and outcomes

Have the autonomy to develop and grow the department

Integrate with the wider hospital teams to ensure best patient outcomes

Maintain HIW standards at all times, undertake departmental risk assessments, maintain plans for minimising incidents, and report appropriately.

Involvement in recruitment and HR responsibilities

To be a qualified Physiotherapist with a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and you'll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Previous management experience desirable

Demonstrable passion for excellence and driving standards

To be proactive, adaptable and innovative

Confident communicating skills with excellent customer service standards and dealing with escalations

Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you. Vale Hospital The Vale Hospital is a purpose built, modern hospital located in beautiful surroundings of the Vale of Glamorgan. We provide 30 in-patient rooms within a very tranquil hospital setting and were recently identified as one of the top 30 most technologically advanced hospitals in the world. We host 2 fully digital ultra clean air operating theatres, an excellent physiotherapy department, 24-hour high dependency, surgical and medical RMO cover and exemplary outpatients and diagnostic service. The patient feedback for our hospital is one of the best within the Nuffield Health estate and this is something our staff and consultants are very proud of. Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role. It starts with you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Inpatient Physiotherapy Lead Vale Hospital | Physiotherapy | Permanent | Part Time | Up to £49,000 per annum pro rata dependent on skills and experience 37.5 Hours per week The Physiotherapy team currently have an opportunity for a Inpatient Lead Physiotherapist at the Vale Hospital. Continue your journey with us whilst we'll support you to be your best. Whatever you do, we want to give you every opportunity to broaden your experience and understanding and to develop you both personally and professionally at Nuffield Health. We want you invested in us for the long term, and we'll offer you an abundance of interesting and varied roles. You may want to consider stepping into something completely new to give you the fresh challenge you've been seeking. Where possible, please make sure you have had a conversation with your current manager about applying for this role. We are looking for an ambitious Inpatient Lead to lead the Inpatient Physiotherapy service, ensuring delivery of high quality effective clinical care through assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of treatment. You will provide leadership, motivation and supervision of all members of the inpatient physiotherapy team as well as providing clinical care for patients. You will bring experience from working within a hospital setting and managing people, but also deliver treatment to patients. You will integrate with staff from Inpatient physiotherapy team, pre-assessment, Theatres and the Ward. You will be responsible for the delivery of safe effective care services that provides patients with the highest level of customer experience within Physiotherapy, identifying and delivering quality improvement opportunities. You will work with the Integrated Clinical Services Manager, Matron and Hospital Director to deliver relevant aspects of the Hospital business plan. You'll be working in an innovative, clean, modern working environment, while benefiting from support and training opportunities, plus the time and nurse-patient ratio that ensures quality of care. As our Physiotherapy Lead you will:

Be responsible for rota management of the inpatient team

Maintain clinical workload alongside managerial duties.

Work with Consultants to ensure best practice

Take responsibilities for challenges, driving quality service and outcomes

Have the autonomy to develop and grow the department

Integrate with the wider hospital teams to ensure best patient outcomes

Maintain HIW standards at all times, undertake departmental risk assessments, maintain plans for minimising incidents, and report appropriately.

Involvement in recruitment and HR responsibilities

To be a qualified Physiotherapist with a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and you'll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Previous management experience desirable

Demonstrable passion for excellence and driving standards

To be proactive, adaptable and innovative

Confident communicating skills with excellent customer service standards and dealing with escalations

Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you. Vale Hospital The Vale Hospital is a purpose built, modern hospital located in beautiful surroundings of the Vale of Glamorgan. We provide 30 in-patient rooms within a very tranquil hospital setting and were recently identified as one of the top 30 most technologically advanced hospitals in the world. We host 2 fully digital ultra clean air operating theatres, an excellent physiotherapy department, 24-hour high dependency, surgical and medical RMO cover and exemplary outpatients and diagnostic service. The patient feedback for our hospital is one of the best within the Nuffield Health estate and this is something our staff and consultants are very proud of. Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role. It starts with you.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• To be a qualified Physiotherapist with a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and you'll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Experience

Essential

• As our Physiotherapy Lead you will:
• Be responsible for rota management of the inpatient team
• Maintain clinical workload alongside managerial duties.
• Work with Consultants to ensure best practice
• Take responsibilities for challenges, driving quality service and outcomes
• Have the autonomy to develop and grow the department
• Integrate with the wider hospital teams to ensure best patient outcomes
• Maintain HIW standards at all times, undertake departmental risk assessments, maintain plans for minimising incidents, and report appropriately.
• Involvement in recruitment and HR responsibilities
• Previous management experience desirable
• Demonstrable passion for excellence and driving standards
• To be proactive, adaptable and innovative
• Confident communicating skills with excellent customer service standards and dealing with escalations
• Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

Desirable

• You will bring experience from working within a hospital setting and managing people, but also deliver treatment to patients. You will integrate with staff from Inpatient physiotherapy team, pre-assessment, Theatres and the Ward.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• To be a qualified Physiotherapist with a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent and you'll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Experience

Essential

• As our Physiotherapy Lead you will:
• Be responsible for rota management of the inpatient team
• Maintain clinical workload alongside managerial duties.
• Work with Consultants to ensure best practice
• Take responsibilities for challenges, driving quality service and outcomes
• Have the autonomy to develop and grow the department
• Integrate with the wider hospital teams to ensure best patient outcomes
• Maintain HIW standards at all times, undertake departmental risk assessments, maintain plans for minimising incidents, and report appropriately.
• Involvement in recruitment and HR responsibilities
• Previous management experience desirable
• Demonstrable passion for excellence and driving standards
• To be proactive, adaptable and innovative
• Confident communicating skills with excellent customer service standards and dealing with escalations
• Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

Desirable

• You will bring experience from working within a hospital setting and managing people, but also deliver treatment to patients. You will integrate with staff from Inpatient physiotherapy team, pre-assessment, Theatres and the Ward.

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).

Additional information

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Nuffield Health

Address

Hensol Castle Park

Cardiff

CF72 8JX

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Nuffield Health

Address

Hensol Castle Park

Cardiff

CF72 8JX

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Talent Acquisition

People Services

[email protected]

03001235080

Details

Date posted

03 November 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

JR0102669

Job locations

Hensol Castle Park

Cardiff

CF72 8JX

United Kingdom

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