Job summary
Due to internal promotion, we are looking for a Senior AHP who will be responsible for ensuring high quality AHP practice, rehabilitation and care throughout the trust.
The Primary, Community and Dental Directorate has a complex array of services within 6 different pathways incorporating: Community Therapy, Respiratory, Physical Disability Physiotherapy Service (PDPS), Adult Speech and Language Therapy, Nutrition and Dietetics, Post COVID Rehabilitation Service, Minor Injury Units (MIU), Urgent Community Response (UCR), Podiatry, Falls Service, Care Home Support, Hospital at Home, Out of Hours, Same Day Emergency Care Units (SDECs), Community Hospitals and Children & Young People Integrated Therapy.
The role requires close working with the Head of AHPs Mental Health & Learning Disability and the Associate Director of AHPs. The Senior AHP Leadership team at Oxford Health is a flexible, inclusive, innovative, team who provide clinical leadership, support, supervision, career development and training opportunities. We are committed to the AHPs Deliver Strategy and actively promote the values of anti-racism and social justice.
The post holder will work with the nursing clinical leads, operational managers, heads of service, the existing AHP leadership team and clinicians to improve effectiveness of patient care. Clinical and professional leadership is recognised as essential in delivering these objectives.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for working with the Associate Director of AHPs, AHP Clinical and Professional Leads, Chief Nurse, Service and Clinical Directors, to establish high quality AHP practice, rehabilitation, and care throughout Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will have accountability for AHP and deputise for the Associate Director of AHPs/Clinical Director/ Service Director as required. To lead AHP clinical and practice developments with a particular focus on the clinical standards, practice and strategy to the development and the quality of AHP clinical care and standards.
Part of the Senior Management Team (SMT) the post holder is also responsible for contributing significantly to the overall Directorate strategy/policy to ensure that the Directorate delivers its quality, people, finance, and performance objectives.
The post holder will be responsible for driving improvement in clinical practice, contributing towards the Trusts quality objectives, and the achievement of high clinical standards of care delivered. They will contribute to and lead Trustwide quality initiatives under the Associate Director of AHPs portfolio and agenda.
As part of a 'matrix' style organisation structure the Head of AHPs Community is also responsible for working collaboratively with 'horizontal' leads from across the Directorate and the broader Trust.
About us
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:"Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Job description
Job responsibilities
AHP/ Clinical responsibilities
- To provide expert level AHP advice within the Directorate and across Oxford Health on delivery of high-quality clinical care, developing policy, services and AHP practice to meet service user and carer need and operational
- Work with Operational and Clinical leaders, the Associate Director of AHPs and Director of Nursing to set AHP establishments across the organisations and provide a service consistent with agreed staffing requirements and service
- To assist in leading the implementation of the corporate AHP strategy within the Directorate and
- To establish structures and systems to ensure that high standards of education training and supervision for AHPs at all levels, pre- and post-qualification, is provided and maintained (including continuing practice development (CPD) and vocational training). This includes establishing effective liaison and monitoring arrangements with the Universities and other educational providers providing the courses/ training
- Representing the Trust and AHP professions in the review, development, and implementation of pre and post registration
- To collaborate with clinicians, managers, and HR to develop, support and implement initiatives that will improve the recruitment and retention of AHPs.
- To review the role of AHPs and their support workforce, participating in the development and supporting initiatives to improve the quality and efficiency of services through service and role
- To collaborate with colleagues on the strategic development of new roles and new ways of working, for example, Apprenticeships, Advanced clinical practitioners, and evidence-based interventions, which includes working with other external partners, including HEIs, social and
- Link with the universities to engage with curriculum, placement provision and engagement.
- To support AHPs contributing to improving safety, quality, and service user experience. This would include supporting staff undertaking clinical audit, improvement and research and implementing evidencebased care and safety
- To mentor, coach and manage senior AHPs, participating in the appraisal and objective setting within the directorate.
- Initiate and contribute to business / clinical and professional forums in Directorates, ensuring all AHPs have opportunities to maintain knowledge and contribute to current clinical issues and
- To support the directorate in the reduction of restrictive practice (PEACE), promoting the use of de-escalation and reducing where possible the use and duration of prone I think this can come out of the community.
- Participate where appropriate and ensure AHPs engage in safe and effective use of specialist equipment and techniques such as PEACE, Resus and moving and
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavors to ensure that clinical teams comply with the five CQC domains:
- Safe: people are protected from abuse and avoidable harm
- Effective: peoples care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes, promotes a good quality of life, and is based on the best available evidence
- Caring: the service(s) involves and treats people with compassion, kindness, dignity, and respect
- Responsive: service(s) meet peoples needs
- Well led: leadership, management and governance assure the delivery of high-quality and person-centered care, supports learning and innovation, and promotes an open and fair culture.
- Contribute to the Trusts journey to outstanding across the core services to ensure a continual focus on quality improvement.
The post holder will be expected to:
- Work with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Clinical Director, and Operational Director within Directorates with a particular emphasis on quality and safety issues, through their senior management team meetings and Quality or Clinical Governance
- To assist the Clinical Director, Associate Medical Director and Senior Leadership team in the management and delivery of the Clinical Governance agenda within the
- To assist care groups to develop and implement their objectives and to use evidence-based practice including clinical
- To provide professional AHP advice to the Service Director, Clinical Director and Heads of Service on highly complex clinical and clinical governance
Workforce
The Head of AHPs Community will alongside the Associate Director of AHPs use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
- There is sufficient clinical AHP workforce to deliver outstanding service(s) across reporting service(s)
- A culture is fostered in which all team members are encouraged to develop the right attitudes, skills, and knowledge to deliver outstanding treatment, rehabilitation and service(s)
The post holder will be expected to:
- Act as line manager where relevant and have overall responsibility for the AHP standards of practice within the service(s) which will include for example, being involved in investigations & chairing panels making employment decisions, leading the annual performance appraisal cycle, ensuring there are plans in place for succession and development across the service(s).
- To lead trust wide practice development and improvement projects as may be
- To lead the implementation of the AHP Strategy and Career Framework for AHPs in the
- Lead on the development and implementation of new roles as appropriate.
- To support all AHPs within the directorate to practice in line with their professional code and registration as specified by the HCPC.
Finance
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
- Financial plans for reporting service(s) are realistic and will ensure the sustainability of service(s)
- Variances against these plans are understood, communicated and, where appropriate, mitigating actions taken
- Reporting services are continually driving to improve
- Team development and staff
Performance
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavours to:
- Work with the directorate and corporate teams to deliver the Trusts clinical and business plan and priorities. This will include working alongside Head of Service colleagues to ensure Statutory, contractual and Trust Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for reporting service(s) are realistic and appropriate as the AHP clinical expert advising on this
Strategic Change
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
- Reporting service(s) have a comprehensive understanding of external and internal drivers for change from a clinical
- Reporting service(s) have a Transformation Programme which responds to these drivers for change.
- That the Transformation Programme is managed in accordance with best-practice methodologies adopted by the Trust and used across all
The post holder will be expected to:
- Lead the development and delivery of transformation programmes for the service(s) where relevant.
Stakeholder Engagement/Partnership
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
- Reporting service(s) collaborate effectively with patients/service users/carers, health and care economy partners, and other key stakeholder groups about the delivery of service(s) from a clinical
The post holder will be expected to:
- Lead the development and delivery of any changes which might include for example making public presentations of transformational programmes which are highly contentious and under extreme public scrutiny as the AHP expert for the
- Ensure that patient and carer experience is at the centre of service delivery and development, and that patients and carers are facilitated to feedback and are involved with decisions about the delivery of
Contribution to the Broader Trust
As part of the Senior Management Team (SMT) the Head of AHPs Community is also responsible for contributing significantly to overall Directorate strategy/policy to ensure that the Directorate delivers its quality, people, finance and performance objectives. This will include:
- Acting as a critical friend to other members of the SMT as the AHP expert for the directorate
- Participating actively in SMT, and when requested in the Operational Management Team (OMT), Executive Team, Board and Board Committee meetings and other clinical forums.
- Being an active part of the Trusts governance structures and work with colleagues to ensure that learning is distributed widely across the Trust
- Facilitating effective team to Board engagement
- Representing reporting service(s) with commissioners, health and care economy partners and broader stakeholder groups
Job description
Job responsibilities
AHP/ Clinical responsibilities
- To provide expert level AHP advice within the Directorate and across Oxford Health on delivery of high-quality clinical care, developing policy, services and AHP practice to meet service user and carer need and operational
- Work with Operational and Clinical leaders, the Associate Director of AHPs and Director of Nursing to set AHP establishments across the organisations and provide a service consistent with agreed staffing requirements and service
- To assist in leading the implementation of the corporate AHP strategy within the Directorate and
- To establish structures and systems to ensure that high standards of education training and supervision for AHPs at all levels, pre- and post-qualification, is provided and maintained (including continuing practice development (CPD) and vocational training). This includes establishing effective liaison and monitoring arrangements with the Universities and other educational providers providing the courses/ training
- Representing the Trust and AHP professions in the review, development, and implementation of pre and post registration
- To collaborate with clinicians, managers, and HR to develop, support and implement initiatives that will improve the recruitment and retention of AHPs.
- To review the role of AHPs and their support workforce, participating in the development and supporting initiatives to improve the quality and efficiency of services through service and role
- To collaborate with colleagues on the strategic development of new roles and new ways of working, for example, Apprenticeships, Advanced clinical practitioners, and evidence-based interventions, which includes working with other external partners, including HEIs, social and
- Link with the universities to engage with curriculum, placement provision and engagement.
- To support AHPs contributing to improving safety, quality, and service user experience. This would include supporting staff undertaking clinical audit, improvement and research and implementing evidencebased care and safety
- To mentor, coach and manage senior AHPs, participating in the appraisal and objective setting within the directorate.
- Initiate and contribute to business / clinical and professional forums in Directorates, ensuring all AHPs have opportunities to maintain knowledge and contribute to current clinical issues and
- To support the directorate in the reduction of restrictive practice (PEACE), promoting the use of de-escalation and reducing where possible the use and duration of prone I think this can come out of the community.
- Participate where appropriate and ensure AHPs engage in safe and effective use of specialist equipment and techniques such as PEACE, Resus and moving and
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavors to ensure that clinical teams comply with the five CQC domains:
- Safe: people are protected from abuse and avoidable harm
- Effective: peoples care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes, promotes a good quality of life, and is based on the best available evidence
- Caring: the service(s) involves and treats people with compassion, kindness, dignity, and respect
- Responsive: service(s) meet peoples needs
- Well led: leadership, management and governance assure the delivery of high-quality and person-centered care, supports learning and innovation, and promotes an open and fair culture.
- Contribute to the Trusts journey to outstanding across the core services to ensure a continual focus on quality improvement.
The post holder will be expected to:
- Work with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Clinical Director, and Operational Director within Directorates with a particular emphasis on quality and safety issues, through their senior management team meetings and Quality or Clinical Governance
- To assist the Clinical Director, Associate Medical Director and Senior Leadership team in the management and delivery of the Clinical Governance agenda within the
- To assist care groups to develop and implement their objectives and to use evidence-based practice including clinical
- To provide professional AHP advice to the Service Director, Clinical Director and Heads of Service on highly complex clinical and clinical governance
Workforce
The Head of AHPs Community will alongside the Associate Director of AHPs use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
- There is sufficient clinical AHP workforce to deliver outstanding service(s) across reporting service(s)
- A culture is fostered in which all team members are encouraged to develop the right attitudes, skills, and knowledge to deliver outstanding treatment, rehabilitation and service(s)
The post holder will be expected to:
- Act as line manager where relevant and have overall responsibility for the AHP standards of practice within the service(s) which will include for example, being involved in investigations & chairing panels making employment decisions, leading the annual performance appraisal cycle, ensuring there are plans in place for succession and development across the service(s).
- To lead trust wide practice development and improvement projects as may be
- To lead the implementation of the AHP Strategy and Career Framework for AHPs in the
- Lead on the development and implementation of new roles as appropriate.
- To support all AHPs within the directorate to practice in line with their professional code and registration as specified by the HCPC.
Finance
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
- Financial plans for reporting service(s) are realistic and will ensure the sustainability of service(s)
- Variances against these plans are understood, communicated and, where appropriate, mitigating actions taken
- Reporting services are continually driving to improve
- Team development and staff
Performance
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavours to:
- Work with the directorate and corporate teams to deliver the Trusts clinical and business plan and priorities. This will include working alongside Head of Service colleagues to ensure Statutory, contractual and Trust Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for reporting service(s) are realistic and appropriate as the AHP clinical expert advising on this
Strategic Change
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
- Reporting service(s) have a comprehensive understanding of external and internal drivers for change from a clinical
- Reporting service(s) have a Transformation Programme which responds to these drivers for change.
- That the Transformation Programme is managed in accordance with best-practice methodologies adopted by the Trust and used across all
The post holder will be expected to:
- Lead the development and delivery of transformation programmes for the service(s) where relevant.
Stakeholder Engagement/Partnership
The Head of AHPs Community will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that:
- Reporting service(s) collaborate effectively with patients/service users/carers, health and care economy partners, and other key stakeholder groups about the delivery of service(s) from a clinical
The post holder will be expected to:
- Lead the development and delivery of any changes which might include for example making public presentations of transformational programmes which are highly contentious and under extreme public scrutiny as the AHP expert for the
- Ensure that patient and carer experience is at the centre of service delivery and development, and that patients and carers are facilitated to feedback and are involved with decisions about the delivery of
Contribution to the Broader Trust
As part of the Senior Management Team (SMT) the Head of AHPs Community is also responsible for contributing significantly to overall Directorate strategy/policy to ensure that the Directorate delivers its quality, people, finance and performance objectives. This will include:
- Acting as a critical friend to other members of the SMT as the AHP expert for the directorate
- Participating actively in SMT, and when requested in the Operational Management Team (OMT), Executive Team, Board and Board Committee meetings and other clinical forums.
- Being an active part of the Trusts governance structures and work with colleagues to ensure that learning is distributed widely across the Trust
- Facilitating effective team to Board engagement
- Representing reporting service(s) with commissioners, health and care economy partners and broader stakeholder groups
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate AHP degree
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Participation in a relevant NHS Senior Management Development Programme
Knowledge
Essential
- In depth understanding of NHS and/or public services and the likely changes over the next few years
- Recognises the value and need to work collaboratively across the local health and social care economy.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience managing AHP staff. To include a range of knowledge base and experience of how to maximise people's skills.
- Experience of leading project, change and people management
- Extensive experience of the development of good relationships across a range of key stakeholders
- Demonstration of well-developed and effective leadership skills
Desirable
- Good research and audit skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate AHP degree
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Participation in a relevant NHS Senior Management Development Programme
Knowledge
Essential
- In depth understanding of NHS and/or public services and the likely changes over the next few years
- Recognises the value and need to work collaboratively across the local health and social care economy.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience managing AHP staff. To include a range of knowledge base and experience of how to maximise people's skills.
- Experience of leading project, change and people management
- Extensive experience of the development of good relationships across a range of key stakeholders
- Demonstration of well-developed and effective leadership skills
Desirable
- Good research and audit skills
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).
