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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
275-2504HoT
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway Maritime Hospital
Town
Gillingham
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 per annum/pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Medway NHS Foundation Trust logo

Head of Therapies

Band 8b

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Job overview

Head of Therapies

Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 8b

Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Head of Therapies who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for the operational delivery of and strategic and professional direction of Therapy Services. This involves delivery of all operational performance targets, 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 Head of Therapies will directly line manage advanced/extended scope practitioners and clinical/professional leads for Dietetics, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. The post holder also has indirect responsibility for the Speech and Language Therapy service provided by Medway Community Healthcare and Podiatry Service provided by Kent Community Healthcare Foundation Trust.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for sustaining and developing strong and effective partnership and stakeholder relationships across local, regional and national networks. This will include leading the development of existing and new innovations that will support the development of the Trust’s strategic objectives.

Leadership

Lead a strong, cohesive team of highly motivated clinical managers working together to develop and improve therapy services across the Trust and the local health economy

To support the development of and promote the Trust’s mission, values, aims and objectives.

·        To provide a professional, senior management contribution across the Care Group, working in partnership with the wider Diagnostics and Therapies quadrumvirate, and others to deliver cost-efficient, high quality and responsive services.

·        To be the lead for the escalation process for patient flow from a therapies perspective.

·        To take a lead responsibility for providing therapy service advice to the Trust and as appropriate to external agencies. To be accountable for ensuring that this advice is congruent with the professional bodies standards and other national policies and directives.

·        To have a high profile role in the development of Therapy Services working with internal and external partners, responding to national and local initiatives and policy development within a monitored governance framework.

·        To be accountable for the delivery on key strategic work streams as directed by the Divisional and Executive team as required.

·        Where appropriate, to be the Trust operational lead for specific work programmes. Attending internal and/or external meetings and networks as required, representing the Trust with local stakeholders, commissioners and other providers.

·        To ensure the establishment and maintenance of good relationships and communication throughout Therapies, care groups, the division and with the wider Trust, promoting a culture where AHP clinical and non-clinical staff are actively involved in the decisions on how services are provided and targets delivered.

·        To provide an advance level of strategic thinking, being able to convert concepts into plans and communicate these effectively to a wider audience.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professional qualification in one of the AHP disciplines
  • HCPC Registration
  • Masters degree in healthcare/management or demonstrable ability to work at Masters level
  • Evidence of maintaining continuous professional development

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of transformational change processes, including shaping and implementing cultural change
  • Knowledge of acute and community therapy services, interdependencies and challenges
  • Knowledge of drivers for future service development
  • Demonstrates knowledge and application of Trust values

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience and success at a clinical manager level including strategy development and delivery, operational performance and delivery of high quality services
  • Knowledge and experience of collaborating with internal departments and external organisations
  • Proven success at managing complex organisational change while maintaining service quality across acute and community service with demonstrable impact on improving healthcare
  • Significant experience of staff management, including complex HR issues

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Highly developed communication and negotiation skills. Able to deal with sensitive, conflicting and contentious issues, adapting approach and style accordingly
  • Commitment to promote equality and diversity in the workplace and in service delivery and development
  • An ability and interest in coaching staff to improve performance
  • Ability to analyse/interpret and manage complex situations and information

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Laura Potter
Job title
Director of Allied Health Professions and Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07733361551
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