Chief Allied Health Professional (XR12) in Leeds

We are looking for a highly motivated, passionate Chief AHP to join our team and help shape the future of AHP services within our Trust and the local health economy aligned to the NHS 10-year plan. The Chief of AHPs will be accountable to the Chief Operating Officer with professional accountability to the Chief Nurse. This post will be responsible for providing an advanced level of strategic thinking to the therapy service, being able to convert concepts into plans and communicate these effectively to a wider audience. As Chief AHP, the post holder will also provide expert professional leadership and governance for the Trust's Allied Health Professions. The post holder is expected to cross cover and work at all sites provided by the Trust where Therapy Services are provided. They will promote a culture of learning and openness and ensure clinical staff have the knowledge, capability, systems and support to embed lessons learned in practice and drive improvements for our patients.

Main duties of the job:

• The post holder will ultimately be accountable for all Allied Health Professional Therapists (AHPs) and therapy support staff within the Trust.
• They will directly manage the Head of Therapies and General Manager for therapy services which include services within Dietetics and Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Podiatry.
• The post holder will be accountable for the adult clinical health psychologists who will professionally report to the Chief Medical Officer.
• The post-holder is responsible for the strategic and professional direction of Therapy Services, ensuring all services are provided within the agreed level of activity, standards of performance, safety, quality and budget.
• The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing standards across Therapy Services within the Trust which support professional leadership, competence, capacity and standards of conduct.
• The post holder will be responsible for leading on and delivering success across several key programmes and pathways across the Trust's Clinical Service Units.

About us:

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in Europe, with access to leading clinical expertise and medical technology. We care for people from all over the country as well as the 780,000 residents of Leeds itself. The Trust has a budget of £1.1 billion. Our 20,000 staff ensure that every year we see and treat over 1,500,000 people in our 2,000 beds or out-patient settings, comprising 100,000 day cases, 125,000 in-patients, 260,000 A&E visits and 1,050,000 out-patient appointments. We operate from 7 hospitals on 5 sites all linked by the same vision, philosophy and culture to be the best for specialist and integrated care.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed.

Job responsibilities:

• The post holder will ultimately be accountable for all Allied Health Professional Therapists (AHPs) and Therapy Support Staff within the Trust and will directly manage the Head of therapies and general manager for therapy services.
• This will include services within Dietetics and Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Podiatry.
• The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing standards across Therapy Services within the Trust which support professional leadership, competence, capacity and standards of conduct.
• The post holder will be responsible for leading on and delivering success across a number of key programmes and pathways across the CSUs.
• Support the clinical and managerial leadership of the hospital, delivering a range of outcomes, ensuring that fundamental and underlying activities to organisational success are achieved.
• To lead with other members of the triumvirate and other CSUs and corporate management teams to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services to clinical users and patients.
• Working with senior management, to define and implement new ways of working to maximise the benefits of the new structure and play a leading role in the Trust transformation process to deliver Trust gains in cost and clinical effectiveness and efficiency.

Person Specification:

Skills & Behaviours:

• Proven leadership skills, development of team.
• Ability to draft clear and concise business cases and papers.

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in healthcare or management or demonstrable ability to work at Masters Level.
• HCPC Registration.
• Professional Qualifications in one of the AHP disciplines.
• Evidence of maintaining continuous professional development.

Additional Requirements:

• Forward thinking and be able to lead and transform culture, including shaping and implementing a vision for future service development.

Experience:

• Significant management experience in a senior role within the acute sector in particular operational management.
• Significant experience and success at a clinical manager level including strategy development, budgetary control and leadership.

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.