Job summary
This role seeks to provide strategic oversight and effective representation for Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) across the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System. By linking in to other key clinical development areas, the role will seek to advocate and develop innovative solutions in supporting the AHP profession and ensure as a system we are more effective at recruiting and retaining AHPs across the system.
Main duties of the job
- The role will provide strategic, professional leadership for all Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in Hertfordshire and West Essex, acting as a point of contact on professional and system wide issues.
- The postholder will be responsible for providing leadership and expertise to the ICS in relation to quality, safety, and operational delivery as well as matters of workforce development and equalities for the AHP profession.
- The postholder will be accountable for the development and reporting on all areas for AHP's. These may be as required and directed by the ICS board and AHP council. However, the post holder will be expected to take a proactive stance in the considerations of these needs.
- The post holder will have responsibility for the strategic and operational development of the ICS. The post holder will be accountable for the delivery and implementation of these plans throughout the wider health system including all partners within the ICB Plans to achieve the strategy will be underpinned by the delivery of short to medium term objectives.
- Working in a matrix management style to foster, develop and maintain close working relations with other clinical group and leaders within the entire health economy including the NHS, third sector providers (where appropriate) and Local Authorities, the AHP lead post will maximise the AHP contribution to the entire health system throughout the East of England area
About us
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.
The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.5 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.
It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.
So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key aspects of this role will be to
- Formulate, and secure through partnership working a strategy for the AHP profession across the system that is understood by all stakeholders and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
- Ensure the development and management of plans, within the system, ensuring that the relevant key stakeholders, including individual organisations boards or decision-making committees are aware of any plans and these plans have their approval.
- Proactively manage any key risks and issues, ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond to key stakeholders from across the health economy within the East of England.
- Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress of the strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
- Manage any budgetary implications of activity.
- Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
- Manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholder.
- Across the entire health economy within the East of England area.
- Ensure the strategy is developed, tested, clinically sound, formulated and understood by all stakeholders and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
- Ensure that the strategy is adopted by all stakeholders and that any concerns are understood, developed, and addressed by all stakeholders.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key aspects of this role will be to
- Formulate, and secure through partnership working a strategy for the AHP profession across the system that is understood by all stakeholders and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
- Ensure the development and management of plans, within the system, ensuring that the relevant key stakeholders, including individual organisations boards or decision-making committees are aware of any plans and these plans have their approval.
- Proactively manage any key risks and issues, ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond to key stakeholders from across the health economy within the East of England.
- Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress of the strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
- Manage any budgetary implications of activity.
- Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
- Manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholder.
- Across the entire health economy within the East of England area.
- Ensure the strategy is developed, tested, clinically sound, formulated and understood by all stakeholders and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
- Ensure that the strategy is adopted by all stakeholders and that any concerns are understood, developed, and addressed by all stakeholders.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registered or General Osteopathic Council AHP registration
- Educated to master's level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registered or General Osteopathic Council AHP registration
- Educated to master's level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
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).
