Job summary
We are looking for a Band 8a, Stroke and Neurotherapy Lead to join our innovative and enthusiastic Leadership Team working at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Trust. This post offers the ideal opportunity for development of a senior clinician with proven leadership skills.
The post holder will be directly responsible for leading the Stroke and Neurotherapy teams (OT/PT/SALT) teams both at Poole and Royal Bournemouth Hospital, requiring flexible working across sites.
The Stroke team provides a clinical service to HASU and inpatient stroke/ neuro wards. Some changes are anticipated for the next phase of integration as the organisation prepares for sites moves in 2024.
This role requires HCPC Registration.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital. Cross site working will be required
Interview Date: 17th October 2024
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification or equivalent in OT/PT/SALT
- State registration with HCPC
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Relevant post-graduate training at Masters level
Desirable
- MSC in associated subject.
- Professional qualification to higher Diploma / MSc level.
- An understanding of the changing NHS environment
Experience / Experience/Technical Skills
Essential
- Post-graduate experience including leadership
- Budget Management
- Staff management, including appraisals and recruitment
- Service development
- Change management
- Contribution to operational planning at departmental level.
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships;
- A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
- Able to work using own initiative and as part of a team
- Successful team leadership/motivation and development of others;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including proven listening and communication skills; with a track
- Practical commitment to personal development
- Self-motivation
Desirable
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
- Ability to analyse highly complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Negotiation
- Contracting and Equipment Procurement Practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level qualification or equivalent in OT/PT/SALT
- State registration with HCPC
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Relevant post-graduate training at Masters level
Desirable
- MSC in associated subject.
- Professional qualification to higher Diploma / MSc level.
- An understanding of the changing NHS environment
Experience / Experience/Technical Skills
Essential
- Post-graduate experience including leadership
- Budget Management
- Staff management, including appraisals and recruitment
- Service development
- Change management
- Contribution to operational planning at departmental level.
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships;
- A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
- Able to work using own initiative and as part of a team
- Successful team leadership/motivation and development of others;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including proven listening and communication skills; with a track
- Practical commitment to personal development
- Self-motivation
Desirable
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
- Ability to analyse highly complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Negotiation
- Contracting and Equipment Procurement Practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
