Principal Therapist - Stroke Services | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

This is a new and pivotal leadership role, created to strengthen and transform stroke therapy services across the Trust.

We are looking for a dynamic, credible, and compassionate leader who can bring teams together and deliver real change.

This role is based at Frimley Park Hospital with cross-site working required, including regular presence at Wexham Park Hospital (minimum 1 day per week). This role involves participation in a 7 day therapy service.

You will be:
• A qualified Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist or Dietitian, with HCPC registration.
• An experienced clinician with extensive NHS stroke experience
Proven in leadership and management, with the ability to lead across professional boundaries.
• Skilled in service development, quality improvement, and influencing change.
• Passionate about delivering excellent patient care and developing other.

We offer:
• A culture rooted in our values: Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future.
• The opportunity to lead a newly invested, high-profile stroke service.
• A strong focus on staff wellbeing, inclusion, and development.
• Opportunities to influence care across a large, forward-thinking acute Trust.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you are an inspiring clinical leader ready to shape the future of stroke therapy services, we would love to hear from you.

Apply now and be part of something bigger.

What You’ll Be Responsible For
• Leading the delivery of specialist stroke therapy services across the Trust.
• Acting as the professional voice for stroke therapies, influencing at senior level.
• Driving clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement to enhance SSNAP performance.
• Managing and developing a multi-disciplinary therapy workforce.
• Leading service transformation and pathway redesign.
• Ensuring high standards of patient safety, experience, and clinical effectiveness.
• Supporting education, training, and workforce development across stroke service.
• Work closely with clinical and operational leaders to deliver sustainable, high-quality services.
• This is a unique opportunity to build, influence and embed a modern stroke therapy model, ensuring patients receive the best possible care at every stage of their recovery.

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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• Lead a service by demonstrating advanced clinical skills and leadership skills to ensure the service achieves the aims and objectives of the Trust.
• Regularly undertake/lead audit with area and interpret National Guidance influencing key stakeholders and implementing change as required.
• Be a visible presence to lead teams of therapists and to be the point of contact for the Therapy directorate regarding provision and further development of specialist therapy services.

For more information about the main responsibilities of the role please see the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Wednesday 20 May 2026