Job summary
Do you want to lead our Therapies Team through a period of service transformational redesign which will have a significant impact on the care that children and young people, our patients at GOSH receive?
Are you a kind and compassionate leader committed to making a difference using our Trust Values as your core framework?
Do you want to be an influential leader within our system?
Are you eager to lead during challenging times that bring new opportunities?
If any, or preferably all, of the above interests you then we want to speak with you!
We are a new Core Clinical Services senior leadership team that wants to make a difference for our patients and our people. You will be building upon the work started by the previous postholder and will play a key strategic and operational leadership role in our directorate by leading therapies to deliver innovative and effective care.
We are keen to facilitate informal conversations around this post prior to application so please get in contact
Main duties of the job
Due to the current post holder becoming our new Chief AHP, we have an exciting opportunity as Head of Therapies. The role is part of the Senior Leadership Team of the Core Clinical Services (CCS) Directorate. This is a pivotal role in the strategic leadership of our Therapies Services. We seek a motivated individual of high calibre to support the delivery of quality care through operational and clinical leadership. Who will provide overarching senior leadership to the therapy groupings at GOSH including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and dietetics.
You must be an experienced clinician and operational manager, with post-graduate qualifications with significant experience in professional leadership. As agreed with the CCS Chief of Service, you will lead on various projects and programmes of work across CCS. Working in collaboration with Heads of Profession and senior leadership team to ensure that the role and development of therapies are reflected in both the CCS and Allied Health Professional strategic and operational plans.
You will be responsible and accountable for leading the Therapies Team within the Directorate to embed continuous quality improvement and drive excellent clinical practice delivery to patients, resulting in improved patient outcomes. This will be in line with the directorate objectives, Trust and wider NHS strategy and targets, quality standards, resource controls and constraints.
About us
We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as the communities we serve, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, people with a disability, and people from LGBTQ+ communities. By growing an ever more diverse workforce, we'll have a greater range of perspectives and knowledge, meaning that we can provide the children and young people at our hospital with even better care.
Our hospital is committed to creating an environment that is open and inclusive. Our staff are encouraged to engage with colleagues through the following networks: REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities & Leveraging Disabilities Network), PRIDE and Women's networks; all of which are sponsored by a member of our Executive Management Team.
We want to ensure that all of our people, regardless of their background, are seen and heard. We want to attract applicants that share our commitment to inclusion and that understand diversity is a strength that is embraced and valued.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
GOSH Culture and Values
Essential
- Our Always values
- Knowledge, understand and contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Acaedmic/Professional Qualification
Essential
- First degree and/or equivalent senior management/clinical experience
- HCPC Registration
- Professional qualifications in one of the AHP disciplines
- Evidence of maintaining continuous professional development
Desirable
- Master's degree in healthcare or management or demonstrable ability to work at Masters level
- Research active with publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- oSenior level experience, with contribution to organisational change programmes and staff engagement
- oDemonstrable evidence of understanding and experience of professional leadership
- oProven experience of building and working in partnership with both internal and external stakeholders
- oSignificant experience of: delivering continuous quality improvement, ensuring consistently high standards of clinical safety and quality, engaging and inspiring a professional workforce and working with regulators, e.g. CQC
- oExperience of Serious Incidents review processes
- oExperience of workforce planning and redesign
Desirable
- oExperience of leading transformational change and continuous improvement within the AHP workforce
- oEvidence of previous experience of working within a complex and challenging healthcare environment and of delivering operational and targets and strategic deliverables at senior level
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- oProven leadership skills and of development of teams
- oAbility to draft clear and concise business cases and papers
- oForward thinking and able to lead and transform culture, including shaping and implementing a vision for future service development.
- oClear vision for services with the ability to secure the active commitment of multi-disciplinary staff in working towards achieving this
- oAbility to analyse and interpret situation as well as information
- oFull range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis.
- oExcellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
- oExperience of dealing with complex issues in a large organisation.
- oAbility to work pro-actively and cooperatively with senior management and clinical staff, including at times of stress.
Desirable
- oFormal project management training
- oKnowledge of quality improvement methodology
Person Specification
GOSH Culture and Values
Essential
- Our Always values
- Knowledge, understand and contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Acaedmic/Professional Qualification
Essential
- First degree and/or equivalent senior management/clinical experience
- HCPC Registration
- Professional qualifications in one of the AHP disciplines
- Evidence of maintaining continuous professional development
Desirable
- Master's degree in healthcare or management or demonstrable ability to work at Masters level
- Research active with publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- oSenior level experience, with contribution to organisational change programmes and staff engagement
- oDemonstrable evidence of understanding and experience of professional leadership
- oProven experience of building and working in partnership with both internal and external stakeholders
- oSignificant experience of: delivering continuous quality improvement, ensuring consistently high standards of clinical safety and quality, engaging and inspiring a professional workforce and working with regulators, e.g. CQC
- oExperience of Serious Incidents review processes
- oExperience of workforce planning and redesign
Desirable
- oExperience of leading transformational change and continuous improvement within the AHP workforce
- oEvidence of previous experience of working within a complex and challenging healthcare environment and of delivering operational and targets and strategic deliverables at senior level
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- oProven leadership skills and of development of teams
- oAbility to draft clear and concise business cases and papers
- oForward thinking and able to lead and transform culture, including shaping and implementing a vision for future service development.
- oClear vision for services with the ability to secure the active commitment of multi-disciplinary staff in working towards achieving this
- oAbility to analyse and interpret situation as well as information
- oFull range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis.
- oExcellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
- oExperience of dealing with complex issues in a large organisation.
- oAbility to work pro-actively and cooperatively with senior management and clinical staff, including at times of stress.
Desirable
- oFormal project management training
- oKnowledge of quality improvement methodology
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London
WC1N 3JH
Employer's website
https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
