Job summary
Associate Chief Allied Health Professional
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust are very pleased to be recruiting for our newly created role of Associate Chief AHP.
You will work with the Chief Nursing Officer and senior corporate nursing team in providing strong, visionary leadership to the 11 allied health professions at the RBHFT.
The Assoc Chief AHP will provide strong visible professional leadership to the AHP workforce across the care groups which will enable delivery of compassionate, safe and high quality services to our patients.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the role:
- Represent AHP's and the Trust at local, system and national forums.
- Provide professional leadership to AHPs who lead services with a particular focus on quality and safety.
- Professionally lead on key patient experience, complaint and patient safety themes specifically relating to the AHP workforce in collaboration with AHP service leads.
- In conjunction with the CNO Safe Staffing Lead, provide professional leadership to the bi annual AHP trust wide safer staffing reviews.
- Support professional development and leadership, competence, capacity and standards of conduct directly leading to high quality, efficient patient care.
- Working with the Care Group Lead AHPs, develop strategies to reduce bank and agency usage in AHP posts by promoting a flexible and agile workforce, and implementing job planning methodology to services.
- Lead and provides strategic leadership oversight of the development and governance of the AHP workforce (NHSE and NHSI 2019).
- Ensure systems and processes in place to ensure AHP clinical and professional supervision is in place and monitored.
- Chair the AHP forum (currently co-chaired by AHP operational leads in addition to their usual roles of managing teams).
About us
We are one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country - serving a population of more than 500,000 people - and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire.
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, play, and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values:Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the job role, please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the job role, please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered AHP with the Health and Care Professionals Council or General Osteopathic Council (Active registration).
- Masters Degree in relevant subject or evidence working at this level.
- Management/Leadership qualification or proven track record in management/professional leadership role.
Aptitude and Skills
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of how AHP's work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a complex patient pathway.
- Able to demonstrate a sound understanding of government health and reform agenda.
- Financial management, business and service planning skills.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable consolidated experience in HCPC registered profession and senior AHP leadership.
- Current sub-Board level AHP leadership in a health care environment in a clinical directorate.
- Significant expertise of working with patient's/service users as a senior leader to improve their experience.
Desirable
- Understanding the application of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Data Protection Act, FOI and Caldicott Principles
Contractual Requirements or other requirements.
Essential
- Ability to travel between sites and to regional / national meetings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered AHP with the Health and Care Professionals Council or General Osteopathic Council (Active registration).
- Masters Degree in relevant subject or evidence working at this level.
- Management/Leadership qualification or proven track record in management/professional leadership role.
Aptitude and Skills
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of how AHP's work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a complex patient pathway.
- Able to demonstrate a sound understanding of government health and reform agenda.
- Financial management, business and service planning skills.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable consolidated experience in HCPC registered profession and senior AHP leadership.
- Current sub-Board level AHP leadership in a health care environment in a clinical directorate.
- Significant expertise of working with patient's/service users as a senior leader to improve their experience.
Desirable
- Understanding the application of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Data Protection Act, FOI and Caldicott Principles
Contractual Requirements or other requirements.
Essential
- Ability to travel between sites and to regional / national meetings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
