Assistant Head of Physiotherapy in Bridgend

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 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.
• 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 doesn’t 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 isn’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.

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 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.

Job responsibilities: 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.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: BSc Physiotherapy or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy as recognised by HCPC. Masters level qualification (clinical/management) or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience. Management qualification or equivalent evidence of management development e.g. leadership/coaching/mentoring. Member of CSP.
• Experience: Evidence of experience in a senior clinical management role within the profession. Experience in dealing with a wide range of human resource issues.

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.