Job summary
As part of the Therapies Care Group senior leadership team you will align to a Head Therapist either for Inpatients or Outpatient Services dependent on the role you are appointed to. You will be supported by the Therapy Management Team, including the Head of Operations and Deputy Head of Operations. You will report to the Head Therapist for one of the clinical groups that the teams are divided into for management support and oversight.
Post available to Clinically qualified i.e. as a Registered Nurse orRegistered AHP with current professional registration (NMC or HCPC)
Part-time, Fixed term and Secondment opportunities may also be available
Main duties of the job
These new roles support multi-professional teams so an understanding of integrated working, the ability to lead and work across professions and integrated pathways is essential. Whilst continuing to deliver existing service delivery, you will have the opportunity to influence change and service transformation to improve patient experience and flow. This is important as we realign services ready for the opening of the New Royal later in 2022. Depending on the post you are appointed to you may be working on one site or you may be influencing clinical pathways that are delivered across multiple sites.
The post holder will be an integral member of the specialty management team for designated specialties within the Care Group. The Lead therapist will ensure that operational plans and performance are closely managed, by leading and providing solutions to resolve difficult operational issues, in accordance with agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints. With significant experience in leading teams, they will possess leadership skills to deal competently with difficult issues ensuring that policy is implemented and performance managed. The role contributes to strategic direction and policy setting for the Care Group, forming an essential two way communications link between the Care Group and staff, ensuring that key messages, team brief etc. are shared and discussed.*Interviews will take place on 2nd March 2022*
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
Job description
Job responsibilities
With a strong clinical background you will inform future models of working that support integration and transformation and the delivery of care across the care group. The Therapies Care Group encompasses the 3 main sites in the organisation and offsite community locations.
Your role will include driving the quality and safety of the clinical activity of the Teams that you lead to ensure the provision of a responsive service. You will have previous leadership experience and be able to influence change, understand and apply policies and procedures across a wide range of areas including Human Resource issues. With excellent communication skills and people management skills you will be able to develop effective working relationship within and outside of the care group to support wider system working and integration. You will be interested in developing and empowering others.
The post holder will have line management responsibility for clinical staff within the therapies care group. There will be a requirement for the post holder to deputise for the Head of Therapies.
They will lead on the quality of care provided, will be a role model and quality driven, caring and compassionate, upholding the standards and values of the AHP profession .
They will provide support to the Care Groups senior leadership team by ensuring that optimum quality of care and clinical excellence is achieved and maintained.
There are a number of posts available within inpatient services which include clinical specialties as below:
Older Peoples Medicine inpatients and outpatients
Major Trauma and Trauma Orthopaedics
Vascular
The Rehab Unit part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network
AED, Acute Medicine
Frailty
Ambulatory unit
Respiratory/Non Invasive Ventilation Unit and Critical Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
With a strong clinical background you will inform future models of working that support integration and transformation and the delivery of care across the care group. The Therapies Care Group encompasses the 3 main sites in the organisation and offsite community locations.
Your role will include driving the quality and safety of the clinical activity of the Teams that you lead to ensure the provision of a responsive service. You will have previous leadership experience and be able to influence change, understand and apply policies and procedures across a wide range of areas including Human Resource issues. With excellent communication skills and people management skills you will be able to develop effective working relationship within and outside of the care group to support wider system working and integration. You will be interested in developing and empowering others.
The post holder will have line management responsibility for clinical staff within the therapies care group. There will be a requirement for the post holder to deputise for the Head of Therapies.
They will lead on the quality of care provided, will be a role model and quality driven, caring and compassionate, upholding the standards and values of the AHP profession .
They will provide support to the Care Groups senior leadership team by ensuring that optimum quality of care and clinical excellence is achieved and maintained.
There are a number of posts available within inpatient services which include clinical specialties as below:
Older Peoples Medicine inpatients and outpatients
Major Trauma and Trauma Orthopaedics
Vascular
The Rehab Unit part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network
AED, Acute Medicine
Frailty
Ambulatory unit
Respiratory/Non Invasive Ventilation Unit and Critical Care
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls
Knowledge
Essential
- Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on Nursing/clinical professional service.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy
- Have a good awareness and of equality and diversity issues affecting a wide range of individuals and groups
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Skills
Essential
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area
- Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems.
- Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
- Demonstrates good time management skills able to deal with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
Desirable
- Demonstrate competent project management skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinically qualified i.e. Registered AHP with current professional registration HCPC
- Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
- Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
- Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls
Knowledge
Essential
- Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on Nursing/clinical professional service.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy
- Have a good awareness and of equality and diversity issues affecting a wide range of individuals and groups
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Skills
Essential
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area
- Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems.
- Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
- Demonstrates good time management skills able to deal with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
Desirable
- Demonstrate competent project management skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinically qualified i.e. Registered AHP with current professional registration HCPC
- Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
- Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
- Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development
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).
