Associate Director of Allied Health Professionals
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
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Job overview
Associate Director of Allied Health Professionals- 5 hours per week (manager on call duties)
Permanent
Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 per annumClosing Date: 2nd July 2025
Interview Date: 11th July 2025
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An opportunity to recruit an Associate Director of Allied Health Professions has arisen due to the retirement of the existing post holder. You will be an integral part of the Trusts Senior Nursing and AHP team, reporting into the Chief Nursing Officer and linked to Clinical Support Services.You will work closely with the Coventry and Warwickshire ICS AD’s of AHP’s and the ICB’s Chief AHP, being an active member of the progressive AHP Council. There is an expectation to maintain your clinical practice approximately 1 day a month.
Participate in the manager on call rota.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have the responsibility for leading the service development and professional leadership of all Allied Health Professional groups that support the delivery of the organisation’s strategic direction to EXCEL at patient care, performance and productivity and delivery of financial performance alongside the NHS 10-year plan.You will lead on sustaining the Trusts AHP workforce, harnessing their value and identifying opportunities to modernise service delivery across patient pathways internal and external and champion advanced practice, workforce reviews and challenge traditional boundaries of working.
The post holder will provide expert and professional advice to a wide range of staff, develop strategy, implement AHP policy and measure outcomes to assure the quality and safety of AHP services across the Trust.
We are looking for an individual who supports innovative practice to support the delivery of evidenced based care. George Eliot’s senior leaders are values driven and focused on the provision of responsive, compassionate, visible leadership for all areas across the Trust with an emphasis on the role of advanced practitioners – does this sounds like you?
The role calls for an experienced AHP who wants to advance clinical practice for AHPs, who has a vision for the service that will improve patient care and meet the needs of our community.
Working for our organisation
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities- To lead the strategic planning, service modernisation, AHP workforce and job planning, AHP education, research training and development and quality of AHP interventions in relation to professional standard, health and social care and governance.
- Responsible for progression of the AHP agenda and to work collaboratively across the ICS in collaboration with other service providers
- Provide strong strategic direction and professional leadership on all aspects of AHP services and bring the AHP perspective to the executive decision-making process
- Develop a detailed understanding of all AHP services that reflect both the diversity and commonalities of the staff group.
- Support the CNO, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Clinical Support Serices and AHP service Leads across the organisation to maintain and enhance standards of all AHP services to ensure high levels of patient care, patient experience and patient safety outcomes by both leading and supporting the implementation of continuous quality and safety initiatives
- Provide professional leadership and direction to the AHP service leads and provide expert advice on matters relating to AHPs across the trust as identified by the COO and CSS.
- Responsible for the development of the range of AHP services, strategy documents, policies and procedures.
- Develop data sets, analyse and interpret highly complex AHP related data to inform the strategic direction of AHP services and patient care.
- Recommend and implement clinical audit and research to enhance care and practice delivery
- Deputise for the CNO at AHP internal and external meetings, locally, regionally and nationally
- Work collaboratively across all Clinical Groups and with other key managers in delivering service development, business planning and service delivery ensuring achievements in key local and national targets.
- Lead, enable and facilitate change, promoting innovative ways of working that are patient-centred and not impeded by organisational and professional boundaries.
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- CSS Triumvirate
- All other Executive and Non-Executive Directors
- Lead clinicians
- Directorate Triumvirates
- Director of Quality Governance
- Clinical Nurse Specialists/Advanced Practitioners
- Digital – CCIO and CNIO
- Educational and Research Teams
- Colleagues in the Foundation Group (Wye Valley NHS Trust, Worcester NHS Trust, and South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust)
- Education providers/Leads
- NHSE links – Regional and National
- Service User Organisations
- Regulatory Body – HCPC
- Professional Bodies as required - CSP, RCOT, RCSLT, SCoR
- AHP network
- External stakeholders including NW Place, ICB, NHSE including WTE and CQC
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person specification
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria- Ability to make recommendations to the Trust Management Team and challenge current practice in order to achieve the required outcomes.
- Ability to manage work priorities effectively
- Demonstrates commitment and evidence of continuous professional development
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Experience of working in a senior operational and managerial role
- Registered with HCPC
- Experience of developing services and exploring business opportunities
- Experience of interpreting and implementing national and local policy
- Experience at Head of an AHP service or equivalent role
- Competent in the use of Office IT systems
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential criteria- Registered AHP
- Senior management development programme qualification or equivalent
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria- Evidence of collaborative working and effective strategic influencing
- Ability to provide strategic leadership to senior clinical teams
- Ability to support business objectives, write business cases and articulate complex requirements
- Ability to review performance of specialty teams, line manage multi-professional teams
- Ability to develop strategies for the use of clinical information to inform and support service delivery and clinical decision making
- Ability to work in complex environment by utilising past and current skills and knowledge.
- Able to write and present reports at senior management and sub-committee level
- Highly developed financial management and business management skills
- Participated in, undertaken research and/or clinical audit
Please note:
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Other:
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.
In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community.We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our excel behaviours with a vision to create a workplace that represents a culture of kindness, joy and inclusion.