Head of Therapies

Job description

Job responsibilities

Champion the therapy priorities and support performance monitoring and reporting arrangements to demonstrate progress within the Division.

Support the Associate Director of Therapies in the planning and management of projects and the implementation of change across the Trust, ensuring professional relationships are maintained and multi-professional relationships encouraged.

Support the implementation of the Trusts governance and risk management strategies and support the division with the monitoring and maintenance of the divisional risk and compliance registers.

Work closely with risk management and PALS to ensure complaints and incidents are dealt with appropriately with actions agreed and effective monitoring set in place.

Be the Community Therapy lead for patient and quality initiatives. Develop and embed the use of patient stories and ensure patient experience is a core part of service improvement.

Support the division in preparing for assessments and inspections from external bodies.

Support the Associate Director of Therapies to ensure workforce models are assessed and evaluated, making recommendations to the division and trust board as required.

Participate in the wider trust organisational development programmes taking a lead role where appropriate.

Support the senior divisional team in the delivery of the divisional KPIs, SLAs and Quality Indicators

Lead the investigation of incident reporting, serious complaints and safeguarding investigations within the Division and ensure learning within the division and across the trust.

To participate in Trust wide initiatives to support achieving the Trusts objectives as appropriate.

Be visible and accessible to services, departments and teams, working clinically to support and develop teams when necessary.

Support the Divisional Clinical Governance agenda, including involvement in Divisional Governance Forums, and support the Associate Director of Therapies and Associate Director of Nursing to ensure Patient Safety and Quality Boards function effectively.

Lead on research and audit within therapy services informing and influencing the Division in respect of staff training needs.

Support the Therapy Service Leads, Team Leads and Clinical Leads in reviewing dependency and acuity across inpatient and community services through the collation and presentation of data using approved tools.

Comply with the professional standards and codes of the HCPC.

Act as a role model, mentor and coach, ensuring that direct reports are supported to achieve their full potential, with clear goals and priorities, aligned to those in the division and organisation.

Contribute and lead the development of in-house education and training programmes.

Monitor compliance with professional standards in the division set by the trust including those for appraisal, mandatory training and behaviour.

Support the Associate Director of Therapies in the development, implementation, response rate and evaluation of Patient-Related Experience Measures (PREMs), responding to patient feedback to make improvements.

Inform and influence the Division in respect of staff training needs in keeping with the Divisional training strategy.

To support the Therapy Services Managers, Team Leads and Clinical Leads in ensuring that mandatory training is undertaken as identified in the Divisional training strategy.

To manage additions to or removal of training that is considered mandatory according to investigations or policy decisions.

Responsible for the community therapy budgets and ensuring these are maintained to achieve the Divisional / Trusts financial targets, including bank and agency spend, cost improvement targets and management of resources.

To provide clinical and professional supervision as required to groups or individuals.

To maintain a high profile within the clinical areas and participate in the Trust arrangements for Clinical Governance.

To collaborate with the Therapy Services Managers to ensure processes are in place to optimise the operational, financial and utilisation of the workforce.

To collect, monitor and evaluate data and statistics pertaining to operational, financial and workforce performance across the Community Therapies Directorate.

To work in partnership with the wider organisation and external providers towards local and National strategies.

Represent therapy services at internal and external forums, deputising for the Associate Director of Therapies as required.

Participate in the Community on-call rota

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

Essential

• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council with a Degree or equivalent level AHP Profession qualification
• Masters level qualification in relevant speciality or equivalent qualifications or knowledge

Desirable

• Postgraduate leadership or management qualification or equivalent experience

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Essential

• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Significant proven managerial experience at a senior level within nursing leading and managing/leading a number of clinical areas and/or departments.
• A proven track record of leadership, service performance improvement and organisational change
• Evidence of forging and nurturing partnerships and collaborative relationships
• Experience of supporting a large, complex professional workforce
• Experience of quality and risk management, to include experience in analysing and managing complex complaints.
• Participation in audit and promotion of evidence-based practice

Desirable

• Involvement in strategic development and implementation

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential

• Able to articulate a clear vision for therapies and AHPs which will enable the division to meet its objectives.
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication (written and oral) and facilitation skills
• Well-developed political awareness, influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to identify, develop, nurture and promote innovative approaches to service development
• Well-developed delegation, people and workload management skills
• Possess a research appreciation with an ability for critical thinking and to influence others through research findings
• Professional and patient focused
• Ability to work with and through ambiguity
• Ability to work in various locations and settings and access to transport
• Self-confident and emotionally resilient

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Calderdale NHS Foundation Trust - Community Healthcare Division

Bowling Mill, Dean Clough Mills

Halifax

HX3 5AX

Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)