Job Introduction
Therapy Team Lead (Band 7) – Malmesbury Community Team
Location: Malmesbury
Hours: 30 hours per week
Are you a dynamic and experienced therapist ready to lead with compassion, clarity, and confidence? Join our friendly and forward-thinking Malmesbury Community Team as a Therapy Team Lead, and play a pivotal role in shaping outstanding community care.
In this vital leadership role, you will:
Provide clear and effective clinical support to a skilled multidisciplinary team
Champion high standards of care and ensure the delivery of safe, person-centred therapy
Support the development of staff skills and competencies in line with service needs
Act as a clinical role model, supporting the team in complex decision-making and service improvement
We’re looking for someone who is:
A confident clinical leader
Passionate about community-based therapy
Committed to delivering excellence in patient care
Ready to guide, support, and inspire a diverse team
Why join us?
A supportive, collaborative, and innovative team culture
Opportunities for leadership development and continued professional growth
A beautiful location and strong links across Wiltshire’s health and care system
Apply now and make your mark in community care!
For any further information or an informal chat please contact Alex Seymour - Community Team Manager - Tel: 01666 330515 or email: alex.seymour@hcrgcaregroup.com
Main Responsibility
• To work with partners in nursing and residential care to ensure optimum health outcomes for their
residents.
• To support the community team to develop shared caseloads with primary care working in practice
together.
• Understand and support the achievement of HCRG’s’s business plan objectives and performance
targets, and initiate and participate in screening and needs assessment as required.
• Supervise other health and social care professionals in the delivery of health promotion activities, e.g.
chronic disease management with individuals or groups.
• Identify the potential for service developments, risks and deficits and inform line manager making
recommendations based on specialist knowledge.
• Be wholly accountable for practice taking every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve
knowledge and professional competence and, ensure that all aspects of professional behaviour as
required within their Code of Professional Conduct are followed at all times
• Responsible for ensuring the effective use of resources within the Community Team, assisting the in
managing the allocated budget appropriately, and participating in regular review meetings with the
Business Manager
• Develop and sustain effective and positive working relationships with a wide range of internal
departments/colleagues including; Specialist Nursing Services, Community Nursing services, Therapy
services, GPs’, Practice Nurses and Primary Care staff.
• Using clinical practice skills assess the physical and psycho social needs of a defined client group.
• Using clinical skills to evaluate the delivery of care, identifying subtle changing health care needs.
Being able to competently discuss treatment options with other generalists and specialists.
Please see the attached Jopb Description for the full list of responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
• Registered AHP
• First degree
• Teaching and assessing in clinical practice
• To possess a current, valid driving licence and to be a competent driver
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
• Experience of applying research based information to practice
• Leadership and Management training
• Up to date community experience
• Case management experience
• Significant experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
• Leadership experience
• Teaching experience
• Knowledge of recruitment, selection & appraisal system
• Setting and monitoring standards of care
• Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups
• To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds
• To be able to work flexibly and sensitively
• Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
• Competence in a wide range of nursing skills
• I.T. literate
• Skills in preparing and presenting teaching sessions.
• Undertake specific nursing tasks requiring precision and/or intense concentration. Undertaking complex
nursing skills
• Manual handling skills and experience
• Ability to sensitively inform service users on complex and distressing issues. Able to support and
facilitate staff in dealing with these situations
• To be flexible and adaptable
• Willing to work in other areas of HCRG as and when required to do so.
• Driven to achieve
• Self-motivated
• Good time management
Package Description
At HCRG Care Group, we value you and your contributions, offering a range of benefits to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing:
• Competitive Pay & Pension: Receive a salary of £46,148 with AFC terms and conditions and NHS Pension
• Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with professionals nationwide to develop and share best practices.
• Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and offers at leading supermarkets, retailers, and experience providers through our Reward Gateway.
• Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, including counselling, career coaching, and legal advice.
• Flexible Pay Options: Track earnings and access wages through Wagestream, providing financial flexibility.
• Learning & Development: Enhance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities.
• Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas for service improvements, and stay informed through regular leadership updates.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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