Outpatient Physiotherapy Team Lead - VFC

Job Overview

An exciting leadership opportunity in Physiotherapy

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Physiotherapist with a passion for acute fracture management and service development? We are offering a unique opportunity for two individuals to jointly lead our dynamic Virtual Fracture Clinic (VFC) team within the Outpatient Physiotherapy Service at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.

This one-year fixed term role offers the chance to shape the future of VFC services across our Trust. You’ll play a key part in the expansion of our successful VFC model, supporting its development into a cross-site service.

About The Role

As Joint VFC Team Lead, you will provide skilled leadership to our dedicated VFC and outpatient physiotherapy team, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality, patient-centred service. Working in close collaboration with the VFC Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner, Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultants, and the wider MDT, you will contribute to continuous service improvement and innovation.

This role combines clinical expertise with operational leadership, making it ideal for physiotherapists looking to step into a more strategic role while still maintaining a strong clinical presence.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert clinical leadership and day-to-day management of the VFC and outpatient physiotherapy team.
• Manage a complex caseload as an autonomous practitioner, using highly specialist physiotherapy skills and knowledge.
• Lead on service development and quality improvement initiatives within the VFC, including the implementation and evaluation of new policies and procedures.
• Support the clinical development of team members, including the supervision and teaching of physiotherapists and students.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient care pathways and enhance the efficiency and reach of the VFC model.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

This is a fantastic opportunity to take on a leadership role within an innovative and supportive environment. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and help shape the future of virtual fracture care at Frimley Health, we’d love to hear from you.

Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BSc or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• Evidence of relevant post graduate courses
• MSc study in MSK image interpretation completed or working towards
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant B6 experience in MSK Outpatient Physiotherapy including in VFC
• Relevant line management experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous B7 Outpatient Physiotherapy Experience
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Organisational skills
• Management skills
• Communication skills especially virtual calls
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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