Job summary
The Chief of Allied Health Professionals will have an
influential role in supporting our clinical teams in NHS Buckinghamshire,
Oxfordshire and Berkshire West. The postholder will lead and support the
further co-development and implementation of the AHP strategy, ensuring that it
fully aligns with, and supports the delivery of, the Integrated Care Strategy
and Joint Forward Plan.
The post holder will have extensive experience of working across
complex health and care settings, in supporting clinical service re-design,
whilst ensuring a strong focus on empowering and maximising the independence of
the people and populations we serve. The post holder will empower and lead
clinical change and improvement including working on delegated issues and
making key recommendations as part of the system clinical leadership.
Working with partners, the Chief of AHP will work on
ICS-specific future workforce plans for health and care, in conjunction with
NHS England regional teams and Health Education England.
This role will offer an excellent opportunity and experience,
for an AHP leader wanting to work in enabling and delivering integrated care,
providing an ability to influence and shape the way we provide services,
educate and develop our workforce, now and in the future.
For an informal discussion please contact Rachael Corser, chief
nursing officer via email to angela.bucknell@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
Provide
strategic, professional leadership for all AHPs in BOB, acting as a point of
contact on professional and system wide issues.
Responsible for
providing AHP leadership and expertise to the ICS in relation to quality,
safety and operational delivery and matters of workforce development and
equalities with focus on areas of ICS need as required and directed by the BOB
board and AHP council for example, CYP AHP leadership.
Provide
strategic leadership into other ICB wide clinical portfolios, for example
frailty, rehabilitation or others.
Lead Allied
Health Professional (AHP) workforce transformation to drive and enable service
redesign for models of care in line with the NHS long term plan and ICS
strategic delivery plans.
Work in a matrix
management style and to foster close working relations with other clinical
group and leaders within the NHS and Local Authorities.
About us
As a newly created ICB we are committed to having a
workforce that reflects the communities we support and are actively seeking to
improve the diversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all
under-represented communities and groups and are particularly keen to attract
candidates from ethnic minority groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Lead all activities including, but is not
limited to:-
Lead, manage and further develop the BOB AHP
Council strategic meeting across a wide group of partners and ensure position
statements and strategic advice is communicated across the ICS
Develop a strong, multi-disciplinary effective network
of AHPs within BOB across stakeholder organisations to ensure that engagement
is successful in support of ICS developments.
Develop close collaboration and alignment between
local, regional and national organisations and networks including AHP
Professional bodies, Academic Health Science Networks, Clinical Networks and
Senates, Training Hubs, Health Education England and NHS England / Improvement.
Achieve a highly successful range of complex
professional relationship networks. Foster a significant level of
multidisciplinary working between local AHPs and other health and care
professionals and support workers across the system to improve patient care,
research & development and innovation.
Work to enhance relationships and foster
multidisciplinary working between AHPs healthcare scientists, medical staff,
nurses and other Health and Care Professionals to improve patient care, research
& development and innovation.
Undertake a baseline assessment of current services in
specific areas to inform the development of the AHP strategy. Co-ordinate and
drive change through the BOB AHP Council.
Develop appropriate business strategy with
appropriate Managers/Directors.
Ensure appropriate governance structures
are in place to support.
Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement
strategy is in place defining how the strategy will engage with all stakeholder
groups and what information flows will be established and maintained.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Lead all activities including, but is not
limited to:-
Lead, manage and further develop the BOB AHP
Council strategic meeting across a wide group of partners and ensure position
statements and strategic advice is communicated across the ICS
Develop a strong, multi-disciplinary effective network
of AHPs within BOB across stakeholder organisations to ensure that engagement
is successful in support of ICS developments.
Develop close collaboration and alignment between
local, regional and national organisations and networks including AHP
Professional bodies, Academic Health Science Networks, Clinical Networks and
Senates, Training Hubs, Health Education England and NHS England / Improvement.
Achieve a highly successful range of complex
professional relationship networks. Foster a significant level of
multidisciplinary working between local AHPs and other health and care
professionals and support workers across the system to improve patient care,
research & development and innovation.
Work to enhance relationships and foster
multidisciplinary working between AHPs healthcare scientists, medical staff,
nurses and other Health and Care Professionals to improve patient care, research
& development and innovation.
Undertake a baseline assessment of current services in
specific areas to inform the development of the AHP strategy. Co-ordinate and
drive change through the BOB AHP Council.
Develop appropriate business strategy with
appropriate Managers/Directors.
Ensure appropriate governance structures
are in place to support.
Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement
strategy is in place defining how the strategy will engage with all stakeholder
groups and what information flows will be established and maintained.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
Desirable
- Education sector knowledge.
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy.
- Demonstrable in-depth experience of managing organisation and/or system wide programmes within the Health and care system to include financial management, staff and performance management.
- Relevant experience of working effectively across organisational professional boundaries in complex organisations / systems.
- Experience of writing Board level papers / presenting at Board and working closely with Board level colleagues including providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiating with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Commercial expertise.
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Ability to horizon scan for new developments across the Allied Health Professions in Health and Social care to use learning from others as a way to improve practice, policy or process.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
Desirable
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
Management Skills
Essential
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
- Ability to delegate effectively.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
Desirable
- Education sector knowledge.
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy.
- Demonstrable in-depth experience of managing organisation and/or system wide programmes within the Health and care system to include financial management, staff and performance management.
- Relevant experience of working effectively across organisational professional boundaries in complex organisations / systems.
- Experience of writing Board level papers / presenting at Board and working closely with Board level colleagues including providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiating with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Commercial expertise.
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Ability to horizon scan for new developments across the Allied Health Professions in Health and Social care to use learning from others as a way to improve practice, policy or process.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
Desirable
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
Management Skills
Essential
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
- Ability to delegate effectively.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
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).
