Assistant Head of Physiotherapy

Job summary

The post holder will undertake the role of Assistant to the Head of Physiotherapy Services within the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. They will undertake the day to day operational management of the Physiotherapy Service and provide professional leadership for discrete specialties across the Health Board.

They will work with the Head of Service and leadership team to plan and deliver the long term departmental strategy in line with organisational and professional direction, ensuring plans are developed in line with the prudent principles reflecting safety, quality, effectiveness and efficiency.

The post holder will assist the Head of Service to identify needs, evaluate priorities and plan for the development of the service, seeking to introduce new developments and innovations and ensuring evidence based physiotherapy is implemented.

This post will hold clinical, professional, operational and financial responsibility for a number of services across CTMUHB Physiotherapy.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership and operational management, of a specific group of staff of all grades within physiotherapy at variouslocations across the Health Board.
• Maintain personal clinical expertise in physiotherapy as appropriate e.g. this could include direct supervision of staff, mentoring, clinicalcaseload, dealing with complex clinical issues or undergraduate education and act as a specialist clinical resource, disseminatingexpert information to physiotherapy colleagues, the general public and other health care professionals.
• Be responsible and accountable for a designated area of the budget and the whole physiotherapy budget and resource in the absenceof the Head of Service.
• The successful candidate will support the Head in performance management of the whole of the Physiotherapy Service to meet Health Board objectives including financial and Welsh Government targets along with the planning and delivery of the governance and learning and development agenda.

Welsh Skills Desirable:This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. Thisdoesn'tmean essential;whilst the candidatedoesn'tneed to have skills in Welsh,we'llconsider it an advantage when short-listingand selectingcandidates.Thisisn't'fluency',just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.For more information, see 'Welsh Language Guidance' inthedocuments right at the bottom.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.