director of Therapies - Kent - ASAP start
| Job Type | Permanent |
| Location | kent, Kent |
| Area | Kent, England |
| Sector | General Practitioners |
| Salary | £75000 - £85000 per annum |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | remoteapi |
| Job Ref | MH/DOP/KNT/290125_1738168079 |
| Job Views | 7 |
- Description
- Key Responsibilities
Professional leadership
* Be a visible leader, responsible for ensuring that therapists have a single point of visibility & accountable professional leadership across the site
* Provide expert advice to senior leaders in the trust regarding the therapy workforce within the service
* Represent therapists within the service professionally providing and receiving highly complex information
as appropriate on Trust committees and ensure therapy voice is encouraged and heard.
* Provide leadership & support to the trust regarding the identification & maintenance of professional
& service standards as well as clinical governance requirements
* Work with other AHP leads to actively raise the profile of AHPs across the Trust & represent the trust on external groups relating to the therapy workforce, driving forward service improvements and increasing the profile of the work.
* Lead development and celebration days for professional practice, including the support of AHP days
* Co-ordinate and drive complex change through the trust AHP leadership group
* Communicate directly with heads of nursing and other professional groups ensuring that communication reaches those professionals delivering care
* Promote and lead on research development increasing research capacity and capability in partnership with the research team.
* Engage with staff and patients to foster a patient-centred approach to delivery of care
* Promote succession planning and talent management for senior therapy and AHP roles across the
trust
* Maintain and enhance relationships with relevant unions
* Be responsible for engagement agenda for the therapies workforce and supporting staff health and wellbeing.
Strategic Responsibility
* Support the therapy services within the service to actively contribute to the delivery of the Trust's strategic
goals, providing complex, sensitive or contentious information as required.
* Be responsible for ensuring that the Trust's AHP ambitions are delivered
* Be active in strategic workforce planning for the service care group
* Lead an effective strategy of therapy recruitment and retention including international recruitment within the group
* Lead the development and implementation of therapy provision across the trust services
* Promote and embed a culture of clinical supervision and clinical support
* Lead on the development and implementation of clinical pathways across trust services
* Promote close collaboration and cohesive working relationships within multidisciplinary teams and maintain effective communication channels
* Be an effective leader for change and support a culture of continuous quality improvement and innovation
* Advise the care group leadership team, Deputy Chief AHP or trust executives on matters of strategic
development that have an impact on therapy-delivered services
* Ensure that the role and development of therapists is reflected in care group and trust strategic and operational plans
* Complete and contribute to operational, business planning and relevant business cases or contract negotiations to develop or sustain services in line with the strategic direction of the trust.
* Lead on the development of commercial opportunities within therapy services
* Co-ordinate the trust's involvement in national AHP projects, to include Model Hospital, NHS Benchmarking and National AHP projects, overseeing the data collection and submissions
* Promote clinical leadership training and development for the therapy workforce
* Working with the research team, increase research activity which focuses on enhancing the therapy evidence base and improving the safety, efficacy and/or quality of patient care
* Foster positive relationships with other local, regional and national providers of therapy services
* Encourage the adoption of cost effective and innovative practice across the therapy professions
* Develop and maintain effective working relationships corporately and with AHP leaders around the delivery of therapy services
Operational oversight
* Through analysis and interpretation of data, facts and evidence base, ensure that there is annual
therapy establishment, skill mix review and workforce planning within the care group.
* Provide line management to senior therapy managers in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Dietetics, including annual appraisal and support for their ongoing professional development.
* Oversee the delivery of high quality and safe therapy services across the trust
* Be responsible for ensuring that the performance of therapy services is regularly monitored
* Work with the service leadership team to ensure sound financial management of all Therapy services
* Hold responsibility and accountability for therapy resources within the areas of operational oversight, managing the Therapy lead budget in line within agreed standing financial instructions
* Monitor and ensure compliance with mandatory training
* Support therapy managers to ensure that all staff have an identified professional lead, receive appropriate training and support
* Work with therapy managers to support staffing issues, including recruitment and retention, the reduction of use of agency staff and associated costs
* Ensure that all local and national targets relating to therapy services are delivered within a safe, high-quality framework
* Take the lead for therapies on the development of major trust-wide initiatives
* Support the therapy managers in the development, ratification, implementation, review and evaluation of therapy related strategy, policies and guidance to ensure effective service delivery in line with national best practice.
* Participate in on call commitments as required by the Trust and provide emergency cover when
necessary, outside of normal working hours.
Quality Governance
* Lead the therapies quality governance agenda, working closely with trust leadership teams
* Lead relevant policy development and implementation
* Promote and support compliance with national professional requirements including NICE and CQC
* Contribute to achieving high standards of care in line with CQC standards
* Implement patient experience initiatives within therapy services ensuring effective collection of patient feedback
* Lead on a culture of continuous improvement and quality improvement by therapies staff
* Oversee and ensure there is a culture of performance management and appraisal both as a responsibility and a right for therapies staff
* Lead incident and complaints investigations where required
Education, research and development
* Work with the Deputy Head of AHPs and the workforce and education team to develop an AHP education and training strategy to ensure a workforce fit for the future
* Lead completion of the annual training needs analysis for Therapy staff alongside the workforce and education team, ensuring CPD funding is allocated appropriately.
* Support the development of bids to enable the strategic development of services and therapy roles.
* Increase the research profiles of therapists leading, embedding and supporting the research within the therapy specialisms through local, regional and national presentations, publications, study days and conferences
Personal development
* Take responsibility for own professional development including agreement of objectives to be reviewed annually with the Service Director of Nursing, midwifery and AHPs and the Deputy Chief Allied Health Professional
* Continuing professional development will be undertaken as agreed with the service Director of Nursing, midwifery and AHPs and the Deputy Chief Allied Health Professional
Qualifications & Skills
* Qualified Allied Health Professional
* Visible leader, working across all trust sites
* Proficient in utilising technology for remote patient monitoring.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills.
* Ability to take on leadership responsibilities when required
If you are interested in hearing more about this role please call Max on 02085066849
