We are seeking an experienced Clinical Lead Therapist to provide expert leadership across inpatient rehabilitation services in the North locality (Peterborough/Wisbech), working in close partnership with the South locality Clinical Lead Therapist to ensure consistent, high-quality care.
You will lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver person-centred rehabilitation, supporting recovery, maximising independence, and enabling safe, timely discharge. As an autonomous practitioner, you will undertake advanced assessment and clinical decision-making for patients with complex needs, while promoting integrated and high-quality care across services.
This cross-site role requires flexibility to support service delivery across Peterborough and Wisbech, ensuring continuity of leadership and care. You will drive service development and continuous improvement, ensuring therapy provision is evidence-based and aligned with organisational priorities.
You will also play a key role in developing staff through supervision, training, and competency development, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and enhance inpatient rehabilitation services, improving patient outcomes and strengthening a coordinated approach to intermediate care across the locality.
Please note for this role you will need the ability to travel independently and in a timely manner across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict time deadlines.
The post holder will be professionally and legally accountable for their own and delegated practice, ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based care across inpatient rehabilitation services. Working alongside the South locality Clinical Lead Therapist, they will provide visible leadership across four inpatient rehabilitation units, driving standardised practice, pathways and ways of working to promote consistent, equitable care.
They will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams, overseeing assessment and care delivery for patients with complex needs. Using advanced clinical reasoning, they will support recovery, maximise independence, prevent avoidable admissions and reduce length of stay, ensuring care is effectively planned, prioritised and delegated.
A key focus will be leading admission avoidance, discharge planning and timely transfers of care, working closely with ward managers, Intermediate Care teams and system partners. The post holder will act as a specialist clinical leader, offering expert advice on rehabilitation, patient flow and discharge processes, and aligning practice across localities.
They will model compassionate communication in complex situations, support day-to-day service delivery, and provide leadership in staffing, risk management and governance. The role includes leading and contributing to audit, quality improvement and service development, strengthening integrated pathways and embedding consistent models of care across all units.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly underrepresented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Act as Clinical Lead Therapist for inpatient rehabilitation services, providing expert clinical leadership and strategic direction across intermediate care pathways
Work with other Locality Clinical Lead Therapists to ensure a consistent, high-quality approach to service delivery across all wards, including alignment of clinical standards, pathways, and workforce practices.
Support cross-site working by providing professional and operational cover where appropriate, ensuring continuity of care and leadership.
Partner with Ward Managers and multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, person-centred rehabilitation, supporting timely recovery, maximising patient independence, and enabling safe, effective discharge planning.
Function as an autonomous practitioner, undertaking advanced assessment and clinical decision-making for patients with complex and multifactorial needs.
Provide specialist advice and guidance across disciplines, promoting integrated working and consistent standards of care.
Lead service development and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring therapy provision is evidence-based and aligned to organisational priorities.
Support workforce capability through supervision, education, and competency development, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and high performance.
Contribute through effective leadership and stakeholder engagement to improved patient outcomes, enhanced service efficiency, and a coordinated approach to intermediate care across inpatient rehabilitation settings.
