Job summary
Are you an experienced and ambitious Allied Health Professional with a passion for inpatient care? This is your chance to step into a pivotal role at the RUH Bath, where you'll lead our inpatient Therapy Service, ensuring excellent patient outcomes and driving forward a culture of continuous improvement.
In this role, you will:
- Provide dynamic leadership in both clinical and managerial aspects of the inpatient service, working to improve responsiveness, patient outcomes and enhance digital processes.
- Retain a specialist caseload, dedicating 20% of your time to complex clinical work, while also developing innovative pathways that improve patient outcomes.
- Drive performanceby fostering a collaborative culture, benchmarking service quality to national standards, and leading quality improvement initiatives.
- Develop workforce capabilityby empowering your team, ensuring high morale, and cultivating a strong, patient-centered environment.
As Deputy to the Head of Therapies for Inpatients, you'll play a key role in strategic decision-making, service innovation and quality improvement. If you're a confident communicator, strategic thinker, and skilled clinician ready to shape the future of inpatient therapy services, this is the job for you.
Main duties of the job
As Deputy Head of Therapies for Inpatients, your primary duty will be to oversee the day-to-day clinical and managerial operations of Adult Therapy Inpatient services. This includes coordinating caseloads, reallocating work as needed, and ensuring adherence to patient safety protocols, quality standards, and wait times. You will manage and coach Team Leads, handling staff performance, development, and health and safety requirements.
A crucial aspect of the role is to lead service innovation and continuous improvement. You will guide the team in developing pathways and implementing digital solutions, such as the digitisation of referral processes, to streamline care. You'll also maintain a clinical caseload for around 20% of your time, and work with multi-professional teams to deliver integrated, evidence-based care.
In addition, you'll support financial performance by optimising resource allocation, minimising costs, and contributing to budget management. You will also have a key role in clinical governance, developing quality initiatives, managing risk, investigating complaints, and ensuring compliance with national guidelines. The role requires strong communication skills to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders, promote service improvements, and maintain collaborative relationships across departments, contributing to the Trust's wider strategic goals.
About us
At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are proud to be in thetop 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description for more information. I strongly encourage candidates to reach out ahead of applying.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description for more information. I strongly encourage candidates to reach out ahead of applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Degree in AHP profession
- HCPC registration
- Relevant postgraduate education to Master's level or Level 7 Leadership and Management diploma
Desirable
- Advanced Practice qualification
- Completion of postgraduate Master's level education in Leadership / Management
- Experience in delivery of NHS digital transformation
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing a clinical inpatient service and delivering key access targets
- Experience leading a MDT
- Experience of leading and managing people and service change management
- Experience of quality improvement and service evaluation through audit/research
- Proven, relevant clinical experience within the field of inpatient therapy provision
Vales
Essential
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental.
- Motivated & caring
- uses initiative and helps others
Specific skills
Essential
- Excellent written, oral and presentation skills, including the preparation of reports and papers for internal and external use as required
- In-depth knowledge of a range of acute conditions, with evidence of the management of a specialist caseload.
- The ability to communicate, negotiate and influence across a wide number of people from Trust senior staff, colleagues, staff and patients/carers
- Knowledge and ability to evaluate and audit a new service or utilise research findings
Desirable
- Developing and implementing business cases and service development plans
- Translating national policy and guidance into local service level delivery
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Degree in AHP profession
- HCPC registration
- Relevant postgraduate education to Master's level or Level 7 Leadership and Management diploma
Desirable
- Advanced Practice qualification
- Completion of postgraduate Master's level education in Leadership / Management
- Experience in delivery of NHS digital transformation
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing a clinical inpatient service and delivering key access targets
- Experience leading a MDT
- Experience of leading and managing people and service change management
- Experience of quality improvement and service evaluation through audit/research
- Proven, relevant clinical experience within the field of inpatient therapy provision
Vales
Essential
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental.
- Motivated & caring
- uses initiative and helps others
Specific skills
Essential
- Excellent written, oral and presentation skills, including the preparation of reports and papers for internal and external use as required
- In-depth knowledge of a range of acute conditions, with evidence of the management of a specialist caseload.
- The ability to communicate, negotiate and influence across a wide number of people from Trust senior staff, colleagues, staff and patients/carers
- Knowledge and ability to evaluate and audit a new service or utilise research findings
Desirable
- Developing and implementing business cases and service development plans
- Translating national policy and guidance into local service level delivery
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).
