Divisional Therapy Lead for the Therapy Directorate

Job overview

Our vision is to become a High Quality, High Performing patient-centred organisation which provides timely and compassionate care to patients and a place where the best people come to learn, work and research. To achieve this, we are implementing a clear operating model that is clinically led, operationally delivered, digitally enabled and has devolved accountability with appropriate support infrastructure. This will allow us to better use and build our capacity and capability within the Trust, System and Region, with clear lines of accountability, authority, responsibility, and governance.

Our Divisions, supported by our Directorates and service lines, are the means by which we will lead and deliver this operationally.

The Directorates’ triumvirate leadership structure will consist of an accountable Directorate Clinical Director and Director of Clinical Professions. It mirrors the structure at Divisional level in this regard.

This role will be responsible for the provision of safe, excellent care via a group of Clinical Professional Leads / Clinical Matrons in operational clinical services to enable the smooth running of the Directorate under which it sits.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Main duties of the job

• Divisional leads will represent Therapies across a specific UHP Division, in partnership with the Therapy Heads of Service, provide independent assurance on the effectiveness of patient outcomes and governance as part of the Trusts Quality Management System and Accountability Framework. Gain overall assurance of professional governance, supervision, and clinical impact. Ensure compliance and regulatory readiness from a therapy perspective, reporting to the Trust Board’s Quality and Workforce Committees.

In conjunction with the Therapies Directorate Manager and Clinical Lead, and professional Therapy Heads of Service the post holder is responsible for the implementation of national and corresponding local clinical strategies and is clinically accountable for delivery of the Directorate clinical and professional service. Delivering a highly complex agenda as defined by the Trust strategy, the NHS Institute’s ‘High Impact Actions’ and other national/local guidance and policies, adopting a highly visible and accessible approach for patients and staff, leading by example in empowering and developing staff to undertake a greater range of clinical activities in order to modernise and improve patient care. Benchmark AHP impact against national workforce and outcome indicators. Developing a Trust-wide Therapy / AHP Strategy aligned with national frameworks (e.g. NHS England’s AHP Strategy).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Divisional coordination of relevant major services at Trust and system level.
• Accountable for delegated functions held at directorate and service level.
• Strategic planning development aligned with trust strategies, policies, procedures and values.
• Performance oversight, management and escalation.
• Independent validation of outcomes and effectiveness and identification of areas for further investment.
• Financial stewardship.
• Operational and strategic risk management and mitigation.
• Patients experience strategic planning.
• Co-production and implementation of a divisional annual plan.
• Delivery of contract services with commissioners.
• Lead on accreted union relationships
• Management of professional standards that may result in HCPC referrals
• Effective management of resources
• Deliver service improvement programmes to improve quality of services to patients
• To carry clinical caseload in designated speciality Senior or Specialist level (0.2wte of post).
• Working in a senior capacity within an appropriate clinical area. Ensuring continued personal clinical involvement and protected clinical time.