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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and compassionate leader to join our Musculoskeletal (MSK) Outpatient Therapies service as a Therapy Lead. This role offers operational management responsibility for a key part of the MSK Outpatient Therapies team, including the large Aintree University Hospital service and satellite sites across the north of the city.
The post is based at Aintree Hospital, with flexibility required to maintain strong links with clinical teams across other Trust sites. Alongside site leadership responsibilities, the post holder will oversee clinical teams including trauma outpatients, shoulder and elbow, rheumatology and hydrotherapy. Working closely with the Head of MSK Therapies, existing MSK Therapy Leads and Consultant MSK Therapists, the successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of an exceptional, high-quality MSK outpatient therapies service.
We welcome applications from individuals who are passionate about supporting staff, improving services and delivering excellent patient care.
Main duties of the job
The Therapy Lead will provide operational leadership to their teams, driving quality, safety, standards of care and service improvement. Applicants should be able to demonstrate experience of leading and developing teams, delivering evidence-based care, supporting integrated pathways across professions, and contributing to robust governance processes. This includes involvement in the management of incidents, risks and complaints, while promoting a supportive learning culture.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- As a member of the leadership team, you will work alongside other Therapies Leads, Professional Leads and Team Leaders, supported by the Therapies Senior Leadership Team and the Divisional Director of AHPs. The successful applicant will be passionate about quality improvement and the contribution of our services to improving patient experience and health outcomes
- Therapy Leads ensure that operational plans and performance are closely managed, by proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve difficult operational issues, in accordance with agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints.
- As a collaborative compassionate leader, you will ensure engagement and empowerment of a diverse workforce through a coaching approach.
- With experience in leading teams, the successful applicant will possess leadership skills to address difficult issues ensuring that policy is implemented and performance managed.
- The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they live our Trust values. You will play an important leadership role that focuses on achieving exemplary standards and creating a supportive and open culture.
- Working under direction the post holder will implement patient centred clinical and AHP operational strategy and plans, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to comply with relevant legislation and governance requirements, including linking with external bodies such as commissioners when required, utilising the expertise and skills of the wider Divisional team
- As a member of the management team, Therapy Leads contribute to strategic direction and policy setting for the Care Group and AHPs within the Trust, forming an essential two way communications link between the Care Group and staff in the wards and departments, ensuring that key messages, team brief etc. are shared and discussed.
- They will demonstrate a coaching style of leadership, ensuring that staff and stakeholder engagement is in place, and action taken to address issues.
- The post holder will have line management responsibility for Band 7 clinical AHP’s.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and implement quality improvement strategies.
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area.
- Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems.
- Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
- Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
Desirable
- Demonstrate competent project management skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on AHPs/clinical professional service.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy
- Understanding and appreciation of diversity
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable extensive experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls.
- Demonstrate the ability to maintain high standards of care and team management over a sustained period.
Qualifications
Essential
- First level professional registration NMC/HCPC
- Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
- Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development, working towards masters
- Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
- Evidence of Leadership development
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This advert is for MSK Therapy Lead with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £57528.00 to £64750.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Aug 2026.
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