Director of Allied Health Professionals Chelmsford

Job summary

As our Director of AHPs you will be the Trust-wide professional lead for Allied Health Professionals across Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, providing visible, expert professional leadership across all sites where AHP services are delivered, ensuring services are delivered consistently to a high standard for the population of Mid and South Essex and beyond where appropriate.

In this role you will set the strategic direction for AHP professional practice, ensuring that AHP contribution is embedded in the Trust clinical strategy, quality strategy, workforce plans, productivity programmes, transformation priorities and system partnerships. You will provide board and executive-level assurance on AHP quality, safety, workforce, education, professional standards and regulatory matters, including the triangulation of patient, staff, performance, financial, quality and professional intelligence.

In your role you will be accountable to the Chief Nurse for the development, implementation and assurance of AHP professional standards, professional governance, workforce strategy, education, research, improvement and clinical quality across the organisation, working closely with the Chief Nursing Officer and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer to ensure services meet the required standards.

Main duties of the job

• the responsible lead to ensure that the patient and staff voice is heard and listened to in the development of services and delivery of care, exercising skills of professional curiosity and appropriate challenge.




• able to communicate highly complex and highly contentious information to a wide range of key stakeholders across MSEFT and the wider healthcare system, using advance skills where there may be barriers to understanding.




• responsible for delivering excellent performance against key quality standards and targets and for taking corrective action when required.




• working in partnership with our Hospital DoNs and colleagues across theICS to improve the model of care and experience of patients with acute physical needs and concurrent mental health illness developing a framework to ensure consistent safe practice and supply of appropriately skills staff.




• accountable and responsible for leading on the programme of activity and lead on specific initiatives on related AHP and professional matters.




• providing strategic leadership and support to managing AHPs in difficulty with their respective regulators.




• working with the Director of Nursing for Workforce and Professional Standards ensure accurate records are maintained and action taken that upholds the relevant professional codes of conduct.

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Qualifications

Essential

• A practicing clinical professional with an AHP qualification




• Have knowledge of the NHS, its infrastructure and the recent reforms




• Higher Professional qualification - Masters' degree and above - AHP related qualifications




• Registration Postgraduate qualifications in either




• Clinical education or Clinical governance

Desirable

• Postgraduate management/ further study qualification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable Experience of working within the NHS within an acute hospital environment, (in a relevant healthcare organisation) preferable a teaching hospital




• Recent experience in managing clinical Services




• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance gained form experience of working with such systems




• Evidence of continuous professional and managerial development




• Clinical leader with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the management and leadership of clinical services




• Significant experience in building organisational capabilities including establishing a clear strategic vision and direction and translation into successful outcomes

Desirable

• Experience of change management




• Experience of working within a devolved management structure

Communication Skills

Essential

• Have the capacity to analyse problems in a logical and structure way, generating optional and innovative solutions and adapting approaches to problem-solving to achieve sustainable outcomes




• Be able to anticipate problems, to understand the driving forces behind problems, or potential problems and being able to identify and use levers to achieve change




• Be skilled in influencing and negotiating internally and externally and using these skills to gain the best deal for the Trust and the clinical services




• Have the ability to understand and interpret clinical decisions for others and make informed judgements concerning clinical priorities

Personal & People Devolpment

Essential

• See management as an open, involving and participative process




• Proven ability to work in partnership with managers and other clinicians




• Experience of leading in a large complex organisation through significant change




• Satisfactory health screening and enhanced DBS checks

Other

Essential

• Unblemished registration with HCPC and AHP professional body

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).