Assistant Head of Physiotherapy

Temple B'Nai Abraham Inc; Wales; On-site; GBP 30,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Wales seeks an Assistant to the Head of Physiotherapy Services. The role involves daily operational management, clinical leadership, and strategic planning for the Physiotherapy Service. Candidates should have clinical expertise, management experience, and ideally Welsh language skills at Level 3. The position is crucial in implementing efficient, evidence-based physiotherapy, meeting health board objectives, and supporting a diverse community of patients.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational management within a healthcare setting.
• Ability to mentor and supervise staff members.
• Demonstrated leadership in clinical settings.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily management of the Physiotherapy Service.
• Collaborate with the Head of Service to plan departmental strategy.
• Manage and evaluate department performance and budget.

Skills

Clinical expertise in physiotherapy

Leadership and management skills

Welsh language speaking & listening skills (Level 3)

Job description

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.

• Provide clinical leadership and operational management of a specific group of staff of all grades within physiotherapy at various locations across the Health Board.
Maintain personal clinical expertise in physiotherapy as appropriate e.g. this could include direct supervision of staff, mentoring, clinical caseload, dealing with complex clinical issues or undergraduate education and act as a specialist clinical resource, disseminating expert 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 absence of 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. This does not mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short‑listing and selecting candidates. This is not 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 in the documents right at the bottom.

About the Health Board

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 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

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