Job summary
We are recruiting to an 8B Head of Allied Health Professionals post within The Secure Care Division. This is an exciting opportunity providing clinical and professional leadership to the Allied Health Professionals working across our inpatient and community based teams.They will also be part of the Allied Health Professionals leadership structure working alongside the Head of Allied Health Professions across the Trust and reporting professionally into the Executive Nurse Team.
Main duties of the job
The Head of The Head of Allied Health Professionals is responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership to all the Allied Health Professionals within their portfolio.
They will represent Allied Health Professionals at all levels, ensuring the highest levels of clinical practice and professional standards are embedded and that the services delivered are personalised, patient centred and innovative.
They will ensure the Allied Health Professionals have the correct leadership, clinical and governance structures in place so they are able to practice in a safe, effective and efficient way to deliver high quality services.
For further details in regard to this post prospective candidates should contact:
Lisa Weston, Interim Associate Director of Nursing & Patient Experience - Secure Care Division
Krystina Stanway, Assistant Director of Allied Health Professions - Executive Therapies
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for more details on the post holders roles, responsibilities and specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for more details on the post holders roles, responsibilities and specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate Allied Health Professional qualification (Diploma/Degree).
- Health and Care Professions Council Registration as an Allied Health Professional.
- Educated to master's level or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of on-going professional development.
- Management or leadership qualification at postgraduate level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of management of clinical services.
Desirable
- Member of special interest group.
- Member of relevant professional body.
- Accredited student educator.
- Coaching / mentoring experience.
- Research experience
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Extensive relevant clinical and professional leadership experience in secure services
- Comprehensive senior management experience working in and being accountable for health services
- Extensive relevant experience at postgraduate level working in Allied Health Profession services.
- Experience of managing effective health care services with the proven ability to motivate.
- Experience of leadership and management of complex change management programmes, service transformation and service development.
- Successful implementation and monitoring of clinical outcomes, measures and audits
- Good understanding of Allied Health Professions professional issues and workforce development.
- Experience and ability to work under pressure and meet competing deadlines
- Experience of budget management and ability to analyse and implement financial reports and data
- Experience of presenting complex reports / presentations to Commissioners / partners and the Trust.
- Experience of taking decisions relating to the risk or safety of individuals and carrying professional responsibility for those decisions within a safeguarding and risk framework.
- Experience in developing and implementing policies and strategies.
Skills
Essential
- Expertise in managing people, managing conflict, and balancing demand for resources with availability and prioritisation of same
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty and remain resilient in times of change.
- Proven skills in effectively chairing meetings.
- Proven persuasion and negotiation skills
- Determination, creative, facilitative, flexible.
- Highly motivated.
Desirable
- Evidence of presentation skills.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate Allied Health Professional qualification (Diploma/Degree).
- Health and Care Professions Council Registration as an Allied Health Professional.
- Educated to master's level or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of on-going professional development.
- Management or leadership qualification at postgraduate level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of management of clinical services.
Desirable
- Member of special interest group.
- Member of relevant professional body.
- Accredited student educator.
- Coaching / mentoring experience.
- Research experience
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Extensive relevant clinical and professional leadership experience in secure services
- Comprehensive senior management experience working in and being accountable for health services
- Extensive relevant experience at postgraduate level working in Allied Health Profession services.
- Experience of managing effective health care services with the proven ability to motivate.
- Experience of leadership and management of complex change management programmes, service transformation and service development.
- Successful implementation and monitoring of clinical outcomes, measures and audits
- Good understanding of Allied Health Professions professional issues and workforce development.
- Experience and ability to work under pressure and meet competing deadlines
- Experience of budget management and ability to analyse and implement financial reports and data
- Experience of presenting complex reports / presentations to Commissioners / partners and the Trust.
- Experience of taking decisions relating to the risk or safety of individuals and carrying professional responsibility for those decisions within a safeguarding and risk framework.
- Experience in developing and implementing policies and strategies.
Skills
Essential
- Expertise in managing people, managing conflict, and balancing demand for resources with availability and prioritisation of same
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty and remain resilient in times of change.
- Proven skills in effectively chairing meetings.
- Proven persuasion and negotiation skills
- Determination, creative, facilitative, flexible.
- Highly motivated.
Desirable
- Evidence of presentation skills.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
