Divisional Therapy Lead

Transformationunitgm; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 100,000 - GBP 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Divisional Therapy Lead to oversee clinical services and provide leadership within the Therapy Directorate. The role involves strategic planning, ensuring exceptional patient care, and managing a team of professional leads. Candidates must possess significant clinical leadership experience and relevant professional qualifications, including a degree and HCPC registration. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in a patient-centered environment and contribute to clinical excellence.

Benefits

Opportunities for career development

Support for flexible working

Qualifications

• Proven experience in senior clinical leadership at a Therapy level.
• Demonstrable management of a therapy team.
• Commitment to teaching at postgraduate level.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe, excellent care via Clinical Leads.
• Implement national clinical strategies within the Directorate.
• Lead service improvement programs to enhance patient care.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Team management

Risk management

Clinical supervision

Education

Degree in Dietetics / Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy / Speech and Language Therapy

Master's level qualification

HCPC registered

Job description

Divisional Therapy Lead for the Therapy Directorate

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Job overview

Our vision is to become a High Quality, High Performing patient-centred organisation which provides timely and compassionate care to patients and a place where the best people come to learn, work and research. To achieve this, we are implementing a clear operating model that is clinically led, operationally delivered, digitally enabled and has devolved accountability with appropriate support infrastructure. This will allow us to better use and build our capacity and capability within the Trust, System and Region, with clear lines of accountability, authority, responsibility, and governance.

Our Divisions, supported by our Directorates and service lines, are the means by which we will lead and deliver this operationally.

The Directorates’ triumvirate leadership structure will consist of an accountable Directorate Clinical Director and Director of Clinical Professions. It mirrors the structure at Divisional level in this regard.

This role will be responsible for the provision of safe, excellent care via a group of Clinical Professional Leads / Clinical Matrons in operational clinical services to enable the smooth running of the Directorate under which it sits.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Main duties of the job

• Divisional leads will represent Therapies across a specific UHP Division, in partnership with the Therapy Heads of Service, provide independent assurance on the effectiveness of patient outcomes and governance as part of the Trusts Quality Management System and Accountability Framework. Gain overall assurance of professional governance, supervision, and clinical impact. Ensure compliance and regulatory readiness from a therapy perspective, reporting to the Trust Board’s Quality and Workforce Committees.
• In conjunction with the Therapies Directorate Manager and Clinical Lead, and professional Therapy Heads of Service the post holder is responsible for the implementation of national and corresponding local clinical strategies and is clinically accountable for delivery of the Directorate clinical and professional service.
• Delivering a highly complex agenda as defined by the Trust strategy, the NHS Institute’s ‘High Impact Actions’ and other national/local guidance and policies, adopting a highly visible and accessible approach for patients and staff, leading by example in empowering and developing staff to undertake a greater range of clinical activities in order to modernise and improve patient care.
• Benchmark AHP impact against national workforce and outcome indicators.
• Developing a Trust-wide Therapy / AHP Strategy aligned with national frameworks (e.g. NHS England’s AHP Strategy).

Working for our organisation

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.

All communication will be electronic. Please check your email account, including your junk folder, regularly. If you need support with the online application process or reasonable adjustments, please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post.

We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager prior to your application submission; we commit to considering each request fully.

We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves patient experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong and are included.

If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Divisional coordination of relevant major services at Trust and system level.
• Accountable for delegated functions held at directorate and service level.
• Strategic planning development aligned with trust strategies, policies, procedures and values.
• Performance oversight, management and escalation.
• Independent validation of outcomes and effectiveness and identification of areas for further investment.
• Financial stewardship.
• Operational and strategic risk management and mitigation.
• Patients experience strategic planning.
• Co-production and implementation of a divisional annual plan.
• Delivery of contract services with commissioners.
• Lead on accreted union relationships.
• Management of professional standards that may result in HCPC referrals.
• Effective management of resources.
• Deliver service improvement programmes to improve quality of services to patients.
• Carry clinical caseload in designated speciality Senior or Specialist level (0.2wte of post).
• Working in a senior capacity within an appropriate clinical area. Ensuring continued personal clinical involvement and protected clinical time.

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

• Demonstrable senior clinical and professional leadership experience at a Senior Therapies (Dietetics / OT / Physio/ SLT) level.
• Demonstrable varied and evidenced postgraduate experience with board clinical experience working at a senior/specialist level within an acute clinical setting with up to date and relevant demonstrable clinical experience.
• Professional creditability/proven skill as Dietitian / OT / Physio / SLT at a senior level.
• In depth proven understanding of NHS developments, clinical governance and therapy issues.
• Demonstrable Experience of: Human Resources Processes, Handling clinical incidents and complaints, Clinical governance and Risk management, Budgetary management, Proven awareness of the NHS Agenda, national directives and all Governance aspects of health care, Proven awareness of equality and diversity.
• Proven Management and Leadership skills, including effective people management.
• Demonstrable management experience within a therapy Department and high level of skill and experience of leading a therapy team.
• Proven evidence of ability to organise effective education programmes and high skill level in clinical supervision.
• Previous demonstrate management experience at this level within an Acute Trust.
• Commitment to teach at postgraduate level.
• Proven knowledge and understanding of application of health and social care eligibility criteria.

Qualifications

• HCPC Registered Therapies/ AHP Healthcare Professional.
• Educated to Degree level: Dietitian / OT / Physio / SLT with further specialist professional qualifications at Master’s level or equivalent.
• Management /Leadership training.
• Formal/informal management training, e.g. disciplinary/grievance, recruitment and retention, effective appraisal, managing absence, finance and budget management.
• Recognised Risk Assessors course.
• Mentorship course or equivalent.
• Further formal professional study, postgraduate/ master’s level in a healthcare related leadership.

Aptitude and Abilities

• Effective influencing and negotiating skills: in general, and with senior health care professionals.
• Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
• Able to work clinically with patients, undertaking the full range of clinical skills expected of a Registered Professional.
• Ability / demonstrable experience of directing and instructing others.

For Doctors Roles

Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/Details. University Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles. In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team. We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee. Any candidate details (whether written or spoken) or CVs that are referred directly will not constitute an introduction. The Trust will under no circumstances be responsible for any recruitment fees in relation to these contacts. Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol. In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co‑operation.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Donna Pike
Job title Therapies Directorate Manager and clinical Lead
Email address [e-mail]
Telephone number 01752 432230