Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Services
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0562
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Strategy Lead for Allied Health Professions
Band 8c
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
The Strategic Lead for Allied Health Professions is a key leadership role within KMPT and a core member of the corporate Nursing and Quality team, supporting and enabling the Chief Nurse to deliver the professional leadership of AHP Practice across the Trust.
The Strategic Lead for Allied Health Professions will hold the delegated trust-wide portfolio of AHP workforce standards, development, and education and is responsible for implementing the strategic plan for AHPs that supports the delivery of operational and professional priorities.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is accountable for contributing to and implementing the Trust's strategic objectives and developing standards based on evidence and best practices related to the AHP workforce. The Strategic Lead for Allied Health Professions holds a key role in ensuring effective AHP input to policies, service transformation, and business planning. They will lead developments focussing on the effective utilisation of the AHP workforce within emerging care pathways which will guide the delivery of care for individuals and their carers both now and for the future. The AHP Leadership agenda is supported by five directorate AHP Leads alongside the AHP Education and Practice Lead. The role also holds responsibility for peer support workers and chaplains.
For this post, you should possess substantial clinical experience as an Allied Health Professional, be able to demonstrate evidence of your leadership development and have a proven successful record of leading others and managing change
KMPT has services across Kent and Medway, therefore the post necessitates travel across the county alongside some virtual working.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY RESULT AREAS:
- To maintain own professional and clinical proficiency and registration.
- To provide strategic direction and professional leadership to the Allied Health Professional, peer practitioner, and chaplaincy workforce across the trust.
- To be accountable for the safe, high quality, innovative, and effective delivery of clinical Allied Health Professions, peer support, and chaplaincy across KMPT in line with the trust's strategic aims.
- Develop a shared understanding of, and commitment to, the vision and strategic aims of the AHP services within the Trust, working with the Trust Board, staff, and associated external bodies.
- To interact with Non-Executive Directors on identified workstreams, and ensure visibility at sub-board committees.
- To initiate and lead the development and implementation of an AHP professional strategy and to be accountable for its review and evaluation.
- To maintain safe, effective, efficient, and innovative AHP practice, aligned to key priorities, across the Trust.
- To ensure that AHP activity, including developments is informed by and maintains a service user/carer and, recovery-oriented, focus.
- To ensure effective and efficient professional management of the AHP workforce within directorates ensuring AHPs are integrated and their contribution embedded in clinical pathways.
- To work as a member of the Trust’s senior management leadership team, providing clear professional advice and leadership at a strategic and operational level.
- To develop an education and career framework for AHPs, underpinned with strong systems for professional development at all levels.
Please see the job description for further details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A recognised Allied Health Professional qualification
- Higher education qualification Masters or other post-graduate Qualification
- registered with the HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable evidence of understanding & experience of professional leadership
- Senior level experience, with contribution to organisational change programmes & staff engagement
- Experience of budget management & allocation of resources
- Significant experience working in mental health services
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading transformational change
- Experience of workforce planning & redesign
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Strategic thinker with the ability to create and execute well considered plans
- Ability to utilise and interpret data to make clear decisions
Desirable criteria
- Able to lead and develop research into practice
other
Essential criteria
- Committed to delivering excellent therapeutic interventions and care with compassion
- Commitment to promoting the trust values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julia Wilson
- Job title
- Strategic Lead for Allied Health Professions
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07557 544979
- Additional information
This post is subject to a six-month probationary period for candidates external to the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
- Telephone
- 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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