Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new post as Director of Allied Health Professionals at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
This strategic post will be the professional lead for all AHP's within the organisation. They will be a key member of the Trusts Chief Nursing Officers Senior Leadership Team and also the Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Board.
The Post-holder will be pivotal in identifying AHP workforce transformative potential,supporting innovation and new ways of working to meet current and future needs of our patients. Will be responsible for providing an advanced level of strategic thinking to the AHP services and wider Trust, being able to convert concepts into plans and communicate these effectively to a wide range of audiences.
Liberating the potential and demonstrating the value of AHPs will be a key priority.
The Director of AHPs will be part of the decision-making body ensuring Trust decisions areinclusive of AHPs views.
Main duties of the job
Design and then deliver our AHP Professional Excellence programme which includes
delivery of the Trusts enabling strategies and key work streams to improve AHPs:
Shared decision making
Leadership
Professional development
Wellbeing
Safety
Quality
Implementing the Research Strategy and enabling innovation
Improvement by directing key inter-professional improvement programmes of work to
include (but not exclusive):
Dementia improvement
Nutrition and hydration
Care of people with mental health issues in Acute Care
Act as the Chief AHP Information Officer (CAHPIO)
Represent AHPs within the Trust and the wider healthcare community
Be an accessible leader to AHPs
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment:
As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.
Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
If you have any queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via email robert.saunders1@nhs.net
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Reporting directly to the Chief Nursing Officer, as an experienced AHP the
Director of AHPs provides professional leadership and strategic direction aligned to the Trusts
Strategic Objectives.
The Director of AHPs is a key member of the Trusts Chief Nursing Officers Senior
Leadership Team and also the Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Board. Representing
AHPs at this level, providing strategic direction to the professions and the wider Trust
acting as a; role model, a point of contact and / or advice and expertise on professional
issues relating to AHPs and demonstrating the compassionate leadership we aspire to and
the values of the organisation.
Through living the trusts values the Director of AHPs will support the delivery of the Trusts purpose which is to improve the health wellbeing and experience of the people we service by delivering outstanding care every day.
The Post-holder will be pivotal in identifying AHP workforce transformative potential,
supporting innovation and new ways of working to meet current and future needs of our
patients. Will be responsible for providing an advanced level of strategic thinking to the
AHP services and wider Trust, being able to convert concepts into plans and communicate
these effectively to a wide range of audiences.
Liberating the potential and demonstrating the value of AHPs will be a key priority.
The Director of AHPs will be part of the decision-making body ensuring Trust decisions are
inclusive of AHPs views.
The Director of AHPs is responsible for establishing and maintaining strong and effective
partnerships and stakeholder relationships across local, regional and national networks.
The post holder will play a system partner leadership role in the ICS AHP Council and
Faculty as one of three, very senior AHP NHS leaders in Worecestershire and will be pivotal to developments in a systems approach.
Working in a highly collaborative way, resulting in significant organisational efficiencies and the bringing together of professions at all levels including links with regional and national professional bodies, influencing national policy , responding to national professional issues, implementing and firmly embedding new professional development initiatives relevant to individual professions and to the collective staff group as a whole.
The Director of AHPs will work closely with the integrated care system to develop and establish seamless pathways (improvement without borders) to optimise people to be able to continue to live well with dementia and other complex conditions and ensure these people continue to live with maximum independence in our community.
The Director of AHPs will lead the development of integrated whole system discharge planning to maximise opportunities through co-design, introduction of new care models and the empowerment of service users and carers.
The Director of AHPs will assume the role of Chief AHP Information Officer (CAHPIO) and support the implementation of our digital systems including the electronic patient record.
Key result areas:
Design and then deliver our AHP Professional Excellence programme which includes
delivery of the Trusts enabling strategies and key work streams to improve AHPs:
Shared decision making
Leadership
Professional development
Wellbeing
Safety
Quality
Implementing the Research Strategy and enabling innovation
Improvement by directing key inter-professional improvement programmes of work to
include (but not exclusive):
Dementia improvement
Nutrition and hydration
Care of people with mental health issues in Acute Care
Act as the Chief AHP Information Officer (CAHPIO)
Represent AHPs within the Trust and the wider healthcare community
Be an accessible leader to AHPs
The post holder will participate in the Strategic on call rota.
Key duties encompass Clinical, Strategic Development, Professional leadership and practice standards, Quality, Safety Research and Service Improvement, Financial Management and Personal and Professional Development. All of these domains are described in further detail in the Job Description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Reporting directly to the Chief Nursing Officer, as an experienced AHP the
Director of AHPs provides professional leadership and strategic direction aligned to the Trusts
Strategic Objectives.
The Director of AHPs is a key member of the Trusts Chief Nursing Officers Senior
Leadership Team and also the Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Board. Representing
AHPs at this level, providing strategic direction to the professions and the wider Trust
acting as a; role model, a point of contact and / or advice and expertise on professional
issues relating to AHPs and demonstrating the compassionate leadership we aspire to and
the values of the organisation.
Through living the trusts values the Director of AHPs will support the delivery of the Trusts purpose which is to improve the health wellbeing and experience of the people we service by delivering outstanding care every day.
The Post-holder will be pivotal in identifying AHP workforce transformative potential,
supporting innovation and new ways of working to meet current and future needs of our
patients. Will be responsible for providing an advanced level of strategic thinking to the
AHP services and wider Trust, being able to convert concepts into plans and communicate
these effectively to a wide range of audiences.
Liberating the potential and demonstrating the value of AHPs will be a key priority.
The Director of AHPs will be part of the decision-making body ensuring Trust decisions are
inclusive of AHPs views.
The Director of AHPs is responsible for establishing and maintaining strong and effective
partnerships and stakeholder relationships across local, regional and national networks.
The post holder will play a system partner leadership role in the ICS AHP Council and
Faculty as one of three, very senior AHP NHS leaders in Worecestershire and will be pivotal to developments in a systems approach.
Working in a highly collaborative way, resulting in significant organisational efficiencies and the bringing together of professions at all levels including links with regional and national professional bodies, influencing national policy , responding to national professional issues, implementing and firmly embedding new professional development initiatives relevant to individual professions and to the collective staff group as a whole.
The Director of AHPs will work closely with the integrated care system to develop and establish seamless pathways (improvement without borders) to optimise people to be able to continue to live well with dementia and other complex conditions and ensure these people continue to live with maximum independence in our community.
The Director of AHPs will lead the development of integrated whole system discharge planning to maximise opportunities through co-design, introduction of new care models and the empowerment of service users and carers.
The Director of AHPs will assume the role of Chief AHP Information Officer (CAHPIO) and support the implementation of our digital systems including the electronic patient record.
Key result areas:
Design and then deliver our AHP Professional Excellence programme which includes
delivery of the Trusts enabling strategies and key work streams to improve AHPs:
Shared decision making
Leadership
Professional development
Wellbeing
Safety
Quality
Implementing the Research Strategy and enabling innovation
Improvement by directing key inter-professional improvement programmes of work to
include (but not exclusive):
Dementia improvement
Nutrition and hydration
Care of people with mental health issues in Acute Care
Act as the Chief AHP Information Officer (CAHPIO)
Represent AHPs within the Trust and the wider healthcare community
Be an accessible leader to AHPs
The post holder will participate in the Strategic on call rota.
Key duties encompass Clinical, Strategic Development, Professional leadership and practice standards, Quality, Safety Research and Service Improvement, Financial Management and Personal and Professional Development. All of these domains are described in further detail in the Job Description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate leadership and clinical experience at senior level in a complex Healthcare organisation
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the patients management, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning.
- Demonstrable track record gained in senior leadership roles within a large and complex Healthcare organisation
- Evidence of National and Regional level work
- Delivery of large scale change programmes
- Experience of writing research protocols and analysis of clinical research data.
- Ability to prepare reports, analyse highly complex data for Boards, Committees, and Management groups.
- Track record of delivering against set objectives and achieving organisational targets, under tight timescales
- Experience of working with service users
- Experience of representing, developing and leading teams and services and subsequent systems, processes and reporting structures
- Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and associated control mechanisms.
- Knowledge of the changing nature of Allied Health workforce.
- Knowledge of the educational framework for both undergraduate and postgraduate
- Understands the commissioning and funding of education
- Experience of NHS management outside of AHP services
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Allied Health Care Professional.
- Masters Degree qualification.
- Professional knowledge acquired through a higher degree, supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent
- Post graduate training and research related to specialist area
- Management or leadership qualification or relevant experience.
- Significant post registration experience including demonstrable experience at senior level
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
Essential
- As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Please declare here if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate leadership and clinical experience at senior level in a complex Healthcare organisation
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the patients management, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning.
- Demonstrable track record gained in senior leadership roles within a large and complex Healthcare organisation
- Evidence of National and Regional level work
- Delivery of large scale change programmes
- Experience of writing research protocols and analysis of clinical research data.
- Ability to prepare reports, analyse highly complex data for Boards, Committees, and Management groups.
- Track record of delivering against set objectives and achieving organisational targets, under tight timescales
- Experience of working with service users
- Experience of representing, developing and leading teams and services and subsequent systems, processes and reporting structures
- Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and associated control mechanisms.
- Knowledge of the changing nature of Allied Health workforce.
- Knowledge of the educational framework for both undergraduate and postgraduate
- Understands the commissioning and funding of education
- Experience of NHS management outside of AHP services
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Allied Health Care Professional.
- Masters Degree qualification.
- Professional knowledge acquired through a higher degree, supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent
- Post graduate training and research related to specialist area
- Management or leadership qualification or relevant experience.
- Significant post registration experience including demonstrable experience at senior level
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
Essential
- As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Please declare here if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
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
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).
