Band 8d Director of Therapies and Chief AHP

Job summary

We have a fantastic opportunity to join Team BCHC as the Interim Director of Therapies and Chief AHP. The role is critical to the successful professional leadership of AHP's across the organisation and ensuring safe high-quality care, prevention and rehabilitation is embedded across all of our services. You will work as part of the Nursing, AHP and Education Directorate and alongside the Chief of Nursing and Therapies. You will be joining us at exciting time as an Community NHS organisation who are driving forward significant transformation to improve integration and access to community services.

If you passionate about improving the heath outcomes of local people, reducing health inequalities and ensuring the professional leadership and clinical practice of AHP's is at the forefront of this transformation then we will be delighted to hear from you

Main duties of the job

The post holder is accountable for providing overall professional leadership to AHPs within the Trust and for ensuring effective AHP input into the development of the Trust strategy, policies and business planning.

The Director of Therapies is a key member of the Chief Nursing and Therapies Senior Management Team providing strategic direction to the professions and the wider Trust acting as a role model, demonstrating the compassionate leadership we aspire to and the values of the organisation.

The Director of therapies is responsible for establishing and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and stakeholder relationships across local, regional and national networks, including leading the development of the Trust's strategic vision and objectives and provides professional and strategic leadership across AHP professions (as defined by the HCPC).

As a member of the Chief Nursing and Therapies leadership team, the Director of Therapies will lead the wider Trust workstreams inclusive of patient safety, productivity and clinical service developments as defined.

The postholder will deputise for the Executive Director of Nursing and Therapies as required.

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.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.