Job summary
The Head of Therapies is a senior professional and leadership role, ensuring high standards of professionalism, leadership and consistent, optimal performance across therapy services in the Care Group.Acting within the divisional structure the post holder will provide strong operational and professional leadership to therapy services, overseeing and directing service response to day-to-day site operational pressures, ensuring transformative, effective, and efficient delivery of Trust services.
The post holder is professionally accountable to the Site Chief Nurse for supporting the delivery of the quality agenda and patient safety strategy; the professional leadership of CWDT Division and for supporting the delivery of effective professional practice in accordance with statutory, professional and clinical governance requirements. The post holder will support the Site Chief Nurse on all aspects of professional practice relating to Therapy services and provide professional advice directly about Therapy related matters and strategic development of services.
Main duties of the job
The Head of Therapies works with the therapy specialty leads - nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, podiatry and physiotherapy both acute and community - to provide strategic, professional and operational leadership and direction to the therapy services. They will be responsible for the effectiveness of services, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based, modern, innovative, cost effective and patient centred services which meet national and local targets, deliver best quality patient experience and is within financial controls and targets.
About us
St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible, for the effective day to day running, and performance, of the therapy services within therapies and community directorate.
To ensure high quality, evidenced based, integrated and innovative approaches to service delivery and service development are established to deliver safe and comprehensive delivery of services in order to support the Trust Strategy and the needs of Trust in providing acute care, rehabilitation and out-patient services.
Support governance clinical and non-clinical activities to ensure they are embedded within therapies and that all staff understand their responsibilities for service quality and patient safety.
To provide professional advice to the Divisional Triumvirate, senior leadership team, clinicians and other Senior Managers within the Trust regarding therapy services.
Accountable for therapies for leading operational performance delivery of key performance indicators including high quality patient care; robust clinical governance; patient safety and clinical quality; including job planning, sustainability and operational targets contributing to Care Group and Trust continued improved performance. Work with colleagues in corporate teams to ensure data availability, improved data accuracy and effective reporting.
Accountable for therapies for the preparation of performance reports as requested, ensuring any actions arising are followed up, delivered and reported on within agreed timeframes.
Support the delivery of Divisional commissioned activity levels, financial performance and quality targets
Work with the GM for ICU and Therapies to deliver within budget ensuring robust professional challenge as required
Participate on the designated on-call rota.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible, for the effective day to day running, and performance, of the therapy services within therapies and community directorate.
To ensure high quality, evidenced based, integrated and innovative approaches to service delivery and service development are established to deliver safe and comprehensive delivery of services in order to support the Trust Strategy and the needs of Trust in providing acute care, rehabilitation and out-patient services.
Support governance clinical and non-clinical activities to ensure they are embedded within therapies and that all staff understand their responsibilities for service quality and patient safety.
To provide professional advice to the Divisional Triumvirate, senior leadership team, clinicians and other Senior Managers within the Trust regarding therapy services.
Accountable for therapies for leading operational performance delivery of key performance indicators including high quality patient care; robust clinical governance; patient safety and clinical quality; including job planning, sustainability and operational targets contributing to Care Group and Trust continued improved performance. Work with colleagues in corporate teams to ensure data availability, improved data accuracy and effective reporting.
Accountable for therapies for the preparation of performance reports as requested, ensuring any actions arising are followed up, delivered and reported on within agreed timeframes.
Support the delivery of Divisional commissioned activity levels, financial performance and quality targets
Work with the GM for ICU and Therapies to deliver within budget ensuring robust professional challenge as required
Participate on the designated on-call rota.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered
- Educated to masters level (or equivalent)
- Postgraduate clinical qualification
- Postgraduate Leadership/ Management qualification or evidence of management and leadership development
- Evidence of CPD relevant to post
Experience
Essential
- Experience of a leadership role in a therapy setting
- Experience of complex performance management
- Experience of developing innovative and creative relationships with key stakeholder organisations
- Excellent understanding of NHS agenda particularly in field of compliance and assurance
- Experience of taking action based on own interpretation of broad clinical and professional polices, ability to advise on how these should be implemented
- Experienced human resources investigator who has led disciplinary investigations, presented in panel hearings, chaired disciplinary hearings and appeal hearings
Skills
Essential
- Significant experience and knowledge of therapies issues and national AHP agenda
- Able to respond at pace to critical and immediate changes of work priorities and demands
- Excellent communication skills, in particular the ability to write clear and lucid reports and to contribute to debate and discussion forums with confidence
- Capacity to absorb a variety of information and interpret quickly
- Ability to set and maintain personal standards, objectives, and priorities
- Demonstrate a positive use of networking skills, with the ability to gain support for the Group and Site Agenda
Desirable
- Recognised qualification in leading change
Planning and Organisation
Essential
- Evidence of ability to operate effectively with a variety of leadership styles as appropriate to the circumstances
- Evidence of skill and effectiveness as a member of a team, contributing especially to team building and inspirational leadership
- Evidence of the ability to motivate and to enthuse colleagues (i.e. personality, credibility, intelligence, and charisma) locally and across organisational boundaries
- Evidence of the ability to take hard decisions when needed, or to be firm or compassionate as the situation demands and to be credible throughout the behavioural spectrum
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered
- Educated to masters level (or equivalent)
- Postgraduate clinical qualification
- Postgraduate Leadership/ Management qualification or evidence of management and leadership development
- Evidence of CPD relevant to post
Experience
Essential
- Experience of a leadership role in a therapy setting
- Experience of complex performance management
- Experience of developing innovative and creative relationships with key stakeholder organisations
- Excellent understanding of NHS agenda particularly in field of compliance and assurance
- Experience of taking action based on own interpretation of broad clinical and professional polices, ability to advise on how these should be implemented
- Experienced human resources investigator who has led disciplinary investigations, presented in panel hearings, chaired disciplinary hearings and appeal hearings
Skills
Essential
- Significant experience and knowledge of therapies issues and national AHP agenda
- Able to respond at pace to critical and immediate changes of work priorities and demands
- Excellent communication skills, in particular the ability to write clear and lucid reports and to contribute to debate and discussion forums with confidence
- Capacity to absorb a variety of information and interpret quickly
- Ability to set and maintain personal standards, objectives, and priorities
- Demonstrate a positive use of networking skills, with the ability to gain support for the Group and Site Agenda
Desirable
- Recognised qualification in leading change
Planning and Organisation
Essential
- Evidence of ability to operate effectively with a variety of leadership styles as appropriate to the circumstances
- Evidence of skill and effectiveness as a member of a team, contributing especially to team building and inspirational leadership
- Evidence of the ability to motivate and to enthuse colleagues (i.e. personality, credibility, intelligence, and charisma) locally and across organisational boundaries
- Evidence of the ability to take hard decisions when needed, or to be firm or compassionate as the situation demands and to be credible throughout the behavioural spectrum
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
