Team Leader (Private Service)

The Private MSK Service is recruiting for a Team Leader at our brand new Wimbledon, Kingston and Battersea clinics. This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated physiotherapist to step into a leadership role, combining clinical excellence with operational management in a supportive and collaborative environment. This position offers the opportunity to lead a team of physiotherapists, support operational delivery and maintain a clinical caseload. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 2 years of clinical experience. A requirement of the role will include completing two clinical days a week in the Wimbledon clinic.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Management
  • Lead a team of physiotherapists, providing clinical support and performance, wellbeing & development (PWD) supervisions and contributing to high quality clinical outcomes.
  • Be the first point of contact for clinical & non-clinical queries from your team.
• Clinical Responsibilities
  • Maintain a clinical caseload, delivering high quality physiotherapy services.
  • Complete clinical audits with support from the Clinical Lead.
  • Aim to exceed service user expectations by delivering excellent outcomes and customer service.
  • Lead by example in both clinical and non-clinical time.
• Operational Responsibilities
  • Manage patient complaints and incidents with support from the Operations team.
  • Assist with recruitment, workforce planning and inductions of new starters.
  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team across clinical and administrative functions.
  • Be the expert on your assigned clinics and assist to improve operational performance.
  • Conduct monthly PWDs for your direct reports and hold team members accountable over KPI’s.

Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do. Now part of Spire Healthcare Group plc, we have been providing physical and mental health services for over 30 years. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers. To achieve our mission of Making People Better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. We are an award-winning employer recently recognised nationally as "Best Company to Work for" at the Health and Wellbeing Awards 2024.

This is also recognised by current employees – our most recent Employee Survey results showed the top 5 reasons to work here as being:

• Supportive team and management
• Positive work environment
• Wellbeing and mental health support
• Trust and respect
• Autonomy and flexibility

We are keen to progress your skills and enable career development and provide regular Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme, apprenticeships and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package.

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and is seeking to improve the diversity of its workforce. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We are committed to being equitable and supporting the wellbeing of all employees. We are a Mindful Employer and our status as a Disability Confident Leader is dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be considered for interview.

Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme ensures that all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be considered for interview. Our Gender Matters Scheme ensures that all women applicants for senior roles (£60,000+) that meet the essential criteria will be considered for interview.

We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests. Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will facilitate.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check. Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months.

Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.