Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the AHP Team as one of our Trust Professional Leads.
BCHC has Trust-wide Professional AHP Leads for several professions (including Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Radiography, Orthoptics) and this vacancy is for the Trust-wide Professional Lead Physiotherapy. Trust-wide Professional Leads provide advice and leadership on professional issues, provide a collective voice for the profession and support the delivery of the BCHC AHP Strategy Implementation plan. You will lead on agreed objectives for your profession, such as Apprenticeships, Advancing Practice, or Clinical training of students and staff.
The Trust-wide Professional leads work as part of a wider team of AHP leaders across the Trust and are led by the Chief AHP and Director of Therapies.
Main duties of the job
BCHC has an Allied Health Professions (AHP) workforce forms the the second largest clinical workforce within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC). AHPs work across the five Clinical Divisions and corporate teams. Each clinical division has a Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies and an AHP Lead; these two posts ensure AHPs work together and with others to deliver the Trust/Divisions objectives and the BCHC AHP Clinical and Professional Strategy; and ensure a collective AHP voice at Divisional Boards and within the Trust.The BCHC Professional Lead posts will support the above structure, leading one of the AHP professions and supporting the delivery of agreed Trust/Division/ AHP objectives that are of greatest priority to that individual professional group.The purpose of a BCHC Professional Lead is to provide advice and leadership on professional issues across BCHC, decrease fragmentation of the professions ensuring the professions have a collective voice at both a Division/Trust level. As a member of the BCHC AHP Council a Professional Lead will support the development and delivery of a BCHC AHP Clinical and Professional Strategies Implementation Plan; meeting both Divisional, Trust and National Strategic objectives.
About us
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description/Person Specification for more details regarding the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description/Person Specification for more details regarding the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
Essential
- Allied Health Professional (AHP) Degree or Equivalent.
- Masters Degree in relevant clinical area or equivalent.
- Health and Care Professional Council Registration.
- Evidence of recent relevant CPD activities in specialised area.
- Proven Leadership skills.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading/ managing a team of professional staff.
- Experience of working in partnership with other professions/services.
- Experience of developing a professional team; inclusive of workforce planning, new ways of working/roles, service development and ensuring best practice inclusive of developing clinical audit and research.
- Able to lead across a diverse group of services.
- Managing or supervising others.
- Leading on clinical audit or research projects in specialist area.
Desirable
- Experience in working with Divisional/Trust Leads to develop your profession.
Skills/ knowledge
Essential
- The ability to provide a leadership role for diverse teams across the Trust.
- The National AHP Agenda and how this could be implemented to enhance patient care.
- Highly developed knowledge of your profession and related professional issues eg. professional education, clinical supervision, new roles/ways of working, best practice.
- Highly developed empathy, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and overcomes barriers to communication.
- Able to provide/receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; and have persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills to use this effectively.
- Able to present/provide complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group of staff, where there maybe significant barriers to acceptance.
- Analytical and Judgemental Skills involving highly complex facts or situations, including analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- Planning and organisation of a broad range of complex activities-which maybe ongoing, uncertain, require formulation/adjustment of plans. Inclusive of clinical or non-clinical services, departments, rotas, meetings, conferences and for strategic planning.
- Ensure Professional resource is used to capacity; ensuring skills mix, professional competencies, productivity data and other tools are utilised fully and best practice in resource management is shared/ implemented.
- Excellent management ability-inclusive of clinical supervision, teaching, training and development, work planning; checking and evaluating work; recruitment, discipline, appraisal and career development and the long-term development of human resources.
- Ability to review complex situations/information and make informed decisions
- Able to write reports that include highly complex or sensitive information.
- IT literate and can use word packages.
- Understands risk assessment and applies it to all areas of practice advising others as necessary
Desirable
- High level of ability in Research and Development-inclusive of leading research activities, developing staff skills and dissemination/implementation of findings.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Ability to fully engage a diverse group of staff.
- Able to prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies in stressful situations.
- Is able to reflect on own Professional/clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes.
- Can deal with conflict and use negotiation to manage any changes within a team.
Other job requirements
Essential
- Ability to independently travel across the Trust
- Able to work at various sites and locations
- Membership of a Professional Regional Network.
Desirable
- Membership of Specialist Interest group in a relevant area
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
Essential
- Allied Health Professional (AHP) Degree or Equivalent.
- Masters Degree in relevant clinical area or equivalent.
- Health and Care Professional Council Registration.
- Evidence of recent relevant CPD activities in specialised area.
- Proven Leadership skills.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading/ managing a team of professional staff.
- Experience of working in partnership with other professions/services.
- Experience of developing a professional team; inclusive of workforce planning, new ways of working/roles, service development and ensuring best practice inclusive of developing clinical audit and research.
- Able to lead across a diverse group of services.
- Managing or supervising others.
- Leading on clinical audit or research projects in specialist area.
Desirable
- Experience in working with Divisional/Trust Leads to develop your profession.
Skills/ knowledge
Essential
- The ability to provide a leadership role for diverse teams across the Trust.
- The National AHP Agenda and how this could be implemented to enhance patient care.
- Highly developed knowledge of your profession and related professional issues eg. professional education, clinical supervision, new roles/ways of working, best practice.
- Highly developed empathy, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and overcomes barriers to communication.
- Able to provide/receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; and have persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills to use this effectively.
- Able to present/provide complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group of staff, where there maybe significant barriers to acceptance.
- Analytical and Judgemental Skills involving highly complex facts or situations, including analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- Planning and organisation of a broad range of complex activities-which maybe ongoing, uncertain, require formulation/adjustment of plans. Inclusive of clinical or non-clinical services, departments, rotas, meetings, conferences and for strategic planning.
- Ensure Professional resource is used to capacity; ensuring skills mix, professional competencies, productivity data and other tools are utilised fully and best practice in resource management is shared/ implemented.
- Excellent management ability-inclusive of clinical supervision, teaching, training and development, work planning; checking and evaluating work; recruitment, discipline, appraisal and career development and the long-term development of human resources.
- Ability to review complex situations/information and make informed decisions
- Able to write reports that include highly complex or sensitive information.
- IT literate and can use word packages.
- Understands risk assessment and applies it to all areas of practice advising others as necessary
Desirable
- High level of ability in Research and Development-inclusive of leading research activities, developing staff skills and dissemination/implementation of findings.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Ability to fully engage a diverse group of staff.
- Able to prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies in stressful situations.
- Is able to reflect on own Professional/clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes.
- Can deal with conflict and use negotiation to manage any changes within a team.
Other job requirements
Essential
- Ability to independently travel across the Trust
- Able to work at various sites and locations
- Membership of a Professional Regional Network.
Desirable
- Membership of Specialist Interest group in a relevant area
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).
