Head of Allied Health Professionals

NHS; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in England seeks a Senior Leadership role for Allied Health Professionals (AHPs). This role involves strategic leadership and governance for AHPs, ensuring their representation and accountability within the organization. The candidate must possess a professional qualification in an Allied Health Profession and extensive experience in leadership and management. The position includes a budget responsibility and aims to enhance patient care and service delivery within mental health and learning disability services.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Access to Continued Professional Development

Health and Wellbeing activities

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification in an Allied Health Profession is essential.
• HCPC Registration is mandatory.
• Extensive experience is required, including senior level experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective strategic leadership for AHPs across the Trust.
• Ensure safe governance for all AHPs while upholding clinical voice.
• Hold the budget for Allied Health Professional Leads.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Communication

Team management

Innovative thinking

Education

Professional Qualification in an Allied Health Profession

HCPC Registration

Extensive post-graduate training in a relevant subject(s) to Master's level

Doctorate in a health related subject

Job description

The role will provide senior strategic leadership to the Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) working in Pennine Care Foundation Trust, to enable the delivery of the professional AHP agenda and ensure representation for all AHPs at the highest level in the Trust. The postholder is accountable for the strategic direction of Allied HealthProfessionals within the Trust, providing effective leadership which enables AHPs to provide person centred, evidenced based, safe and effective practice within mental health and learning disability services. The role is accountable for the delivery and continuous improvement of allied health professionals' practice to optimise patient care, safety and experience, ensuring allied health professionals have opportunitiesto develop new skills and work in an environment that encourages innovation. The role will draw on the postholders extensive experience of leadership utilising a range of skills including: collaborative working, service improvement informed by research and evidence, workforce development, communicating complexity and demonstrating impact.The postholder will work closely and in collaboration with all other professional leads such as the Head of Nursing and Head of Social work to ensure that all healthcare staff have a shared vison for the best possible clinical services.

Main duties of the job

Provide effective strategic leadership for AHPs, acting as an ambassador and role model for all fourteen professions.To ensure the clinical voice of each profession is heard and that all AHPs workwithin their competencies and safe governance.Demonstrate strong clinical leadership to the AHP professions across the Trust, providing senior advice and problem solving with a creative approach ensuring that all registered AHP practitioners work within their professional code of conduct. To raise the profile of and demonstrate the essential qualities and values of the AHPs.Ensure each professional lead liaises with and reports back from their specific professional body and has access to external support locally and nationally.Support and guide the professional leads in driving safe clinical practice for each of the professions.To continually review the operation and effectiveness of the contribution of the AHPs to integrated multi-disciplinary pathways of care and implement required improvements.To hold the budget for the Allied Health Professional Leads.To support, direct and advise on effective use of resources within the teams.To support development of and ensure implementation of clinical and professional policies relevant to AHPs.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We\'re really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we\'re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job responsibilities

See attached Job Description for a more detailed overview of the post.

Demonstrate strong clinical leadership to the AHP professions across the Trust providing senior advice and problem solving with a creative approach ensuring that all registered AHP practitioners work within their professional code of conduct.

Develop strategic direction of each AHP in line with local and national policy and strategy

To be responsible for long term strategy of the AHP services ensuring service development is in line with national policy and local demand

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Professional Qualification in an Allied Health Profession
• HCPC Registration
• Extensive post-graduate accredited training in a relevant subject(s) to Masters level
• Post-graduate training or experience in management
• Post graduate experience to doctoral level
• Doctorate in a health related subject

Experience

• Extensive post registration experience including demonstrable experience at senior AHP level
• Extensive experience of working with patients/service users in a range of clinical services
• Significant experience in leadership and management
• Experience of managing uni and multiprofessional teams in a complex environment and at times of change
• Experience of analysing, interpreting and implementing research and evidence for improvement
• Experience of budget management
• Multi-agency team working
• Research experience
• Experience of teaching, facilitation and working in a learning environment

Knowledge

• Knowledge of local and national Allied Health Professional strategy
• Committed to delivering high quality services and developing clinical practice
• Knowledge of NHS financial management
• Understanding of and ability to communicate NHS policy
• Tact and diplomacy and an understanding of supporting staff through crises

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to inspire and engage staff and encourage innovation and development
• Ability to lead and motivate
• Ability to produce reports and documents using relevant technology to present complex data and strategy with clarit
• High degree of autonomy and decision making
• Ability to develop policy
• Ability to communicate sensitive and highly complex information at every level of the organisation

Work Related Circumstances

• Willing to travel across the Trust footprint
• Committed to personal development
• Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
• Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
• Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure

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.

Deputy Director, Quality, Nursing and AHP's

£76,965 to £88,682 a yearper anum pro rata