Lead Allied Health Professional - Integrated Children's Directorate
A Vacancy at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.
Are you an experienced Allied Health Professional looking for an opportunity to make a real difference for children and young people? If so please read on.....
We are looking for a compassionate individual who can:- Provide strong and visible AHP leadership
- Ensure robust professional supervision of AHPs
- Improve access to and the quality of AHP care
- Offer professional advice
- Ensure the improvement of patient experience is seen as the highest priority across teams
You will be joining the trust at an exciting time as our services for children and young people including physical health, learning disability and mental health, integrate to ensure seamless care.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST- To be a proactive member of the Senior Management Team of the business unit who together ensure the effective delivery of all of its services
- Provide strong visible AHP clinical leadership within area of responsibility and specialist advice to staff working within all services within the Directorate.
- To develop and establish networks for the profession both within and outside the organisation including, for example, NHSE
- To act responsively in providing additional advice and support to services and staff in circumstances such as the occurrence of adverse incidents.
- Ensure that all staff in all areas are clear about what is expected and are working together in successful teams to achieve the Trust’s vision.
- The post holder is responsible for the professional supervision of groups of AHP staff, in particular senior AHPs within the service, to ensure the quality of services they manage, or deliver is appropriate to the needs of the service users. The post holder will be expected to be involved in their appraisals.
- Ensure the improvement of patient experience is seen as the highest priority within all the teams.
- To share professional issues across the organisation, in liaison with other professional leads, on matters of mutual concerns in respect of the delivery of services.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
JOB SUMMARY
The post holder will be working closely with the Associate Director of Nursing, Associate Director of Operations, the General Managers and the Associate Director for AHPs. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate strong AHP leadership and provide highly specialist AHP advice.
The post holder will be expected to provide clinical and professional leadership including support, guidance and representing the broad views of the AHPs within children’s services and will need to achieve a level of visibility that enables these views to be represented equally from all professions and to inform a clear AHP/ Nursing strategy for the organisation and wider system.
The post holder will be expected to interpret national guidance in relation to children and young people and advise on the implementation within the modernising and changing environment of all AHP professions provided by the Directorate. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the development of, and lead on, the implementation of key aspects of the AHP (and joint AHP/Nursing) strategy.The post holder will be required to ensure that the teams have the requisite skills and knowledge to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions through a programme of development.
The post holder will work as a full member of the Trust’s Leadership Team. They will be a member of the (Lead Professionals Groups) and participate in practice Safety and Quality forums and AHP forums across the Trust, as appropriate.
The post holder will also have an important role in quality and safety governance and improvement work contributing to high quality patient care and supporting the service in internal and external inspections, including CQC.
The post holder will be the lead for ensuring that clinical supervision and protected learning is provided in line with policy to all AHPs within the Directorate.
The post holder will be expected to be a proactive member of the Directorate’s Senior Management Team and to engage in and support decision making on behalf of the Directorate across services, disciplines and professions as appropriate.
The post holder will work jointly with, and have professional responsibility, to the Associate Director of Nursing. The post holder will participate in the management on call rota.
Communication- To establish effective two-way channels of communication within the service area.
- To handle sensitive information amongst diverse groups and interests with expert skills and enable time and effective decision making.
- To establish excellent communication with other professional leads in the Trust as well as the wider community to ensure that services are integrated.
- Ensure that good practice is rapidly shared within the service area and wider organisation where appropriate.
- To establish appropriate structures and systems to ensure that AHP views and professional issues have a means of two-way communication and consideration.
- To support and engage in the development of AHPs across all areas within the Trust.
- To lead on the development and implementation of AHP related policies within the Directorate. This includes the review and renewal of existing policies. Support the review of policies and practice guidance where both AHPS and nurses share care interventions
- Lead the service on safety, quality and risk, including establishment and co-ordination of a system to support this.
- To provide expert advice on professional accountability issues and lead or advise on investigative or disciplinary processes as required
- To lead on or assist in the development of the practice governance frameworks and clinical risk management strategies related tochildren’s services.
- To support and engage in the recruitment and retention of AHP staff (within the agreed area).
- The post holder is responsible for planning and prioritising their own workload.
- Keyboard skills with knowledge of software packages
- Driving skills
- Work closely with clinicians, managers and other staff to ensure that service areas are providing optimum quality of care in line with national healthcare standards including CQC, Standards for Better Health, local health care targets and NICE guidance. Support all staff to implement programmes of change to improve clinical care.
- The post holder is expected to lead on the development and implementation of AHP related and clinical policies within the service. This includes the review and renewal of existing policies.
- Regularly review the service area AHP workforce in collaboration with the Associate Director of Nursing and Associate Director for AHPs to ensure it has the right level of knowledge skill and expertise to deliver services in the most effective and efficient way.
- Lead a culture where staff feel empowered and accountable for service improvement at local level.
- Lead a culture of lifelong learning through learning opportunities in a wide range of formats to improve multi-disciplinary and flexible working.
- Lead a culture where safety, quality and risk management are seen to be everyone’s responsibility.
- The post holder will support the Associate Director of Operations and the Trust in any agreed cost improvement plans.
- To support and engage with seconded students in each service area and to take any remedial action as necessary and to inform the Associate Director of Nursing and Trust AHP Lead as appropriate.
- To liaise and interface well with education providers and academic institutions in the development and delivery of appropriate training for both pre and post registration AHPs to enable them to competently and safely fulfil their roles.
- Ensure staff in the service area work within the requirements of the European Working Time Directive.
- Monitor and evaluate Best Practice using relevant tools, including Benchmarking
- To ensure confidentiality is maintained.
- To lead on the development and implementation of Audit programmes and Research & Development activity designed to enhance patient care across the service.
- To actively lead in research activity related to areas of clinical practice and to promote involvement of AHPs in research activity.
- Ensure that the identified service area contributes towards the Trust’s Research Strategy.
This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Oct 2024