Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professionals
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent: N/A
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-EOE-6417444-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS England, Capital Park
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £83,571 - £96,376 Per annum, pro-rata.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Regional Chief Allied Health Professional
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The role of the Deputy Chief Allied Health Professional (AHP) is to support the Regional Chief AHP in providing expert professional leadership for AHPs at system level, whilst also ensuring that local / regional insights and issues, specific to the AHP workforce are understood and considered in regional and national policy. This includes AHP workforce equality and equity issues.
The Deputy Chief AHP will support the Regional Chief AHP in providing leadership across the integrated care system footprints, ensuring that the AHP workforce is optimised across pathways and across organisational boundaries, to benefit patient care.
The Deputy Chief AHP will provide quality and clinical assurance of AHP services to the Regional Chief AHP and if required, the regional senior management team.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the Deputy Regional Chief AHP job description and the personal specification as attached.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Deputy Regional Chief AHP job description and the personal specification as attached.
Person specification
Qualifications.
Essential criteria
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council or General Osteopathic Council as one of the 14 allied health professions; dietetics; arts therapies (drama, music and art); occupational therapy; orthoptics; osteopathy; paramedics; physiotherapy; podiatry; prosthetics and orthotics; radiography (diagnostic or therapeutic); or speech and language therapy:
Knowledge and experience.
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a senior leader influencing and assuring Boards within a health or social care organisation (NHS Trust/LA/ICS etc.) including both provider and commissioner experience.
- Significant experience of supporting integrated care systems and working in partnership effectively with multiple stakeholders to achieve positive change
- Evidence of widely acknowledged AHP expertise in each of the specialist domains relevant to this role e.g., clinical safety, quality assurance improvement, rehabilitation, equality, diversity and inclusion etc. including papers published, national/international conference presentations, invited lectures, additional specialist qualifications, leadership of National committees/working parties.
- Experience of managing complex professional regulatory issues.
Skills, capabilities and attributes.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
Values and behaviours.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values including a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and anti-racism.
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
- Claudette Hall
- Job title
- Project Support for Regional Chief AHP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07798870427
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