Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-CT-6212499
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Sandwell/Birmingham
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Group Director of Therapies
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity to the join the Primary Care, Community and Therapies (PCCT) group at Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust (SWB) as Director of Therapies.
SWB is an integrated acute and community provider, PCCT group delivers services across acute, community bed bases, outpatients, Primary Care and community settings. Employing over 400 WTE therapists and therapy support workers across 6 directorates, including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Dietitians, Orthotics, Chiropodists, and Podiatrists.
2024 will be a landmark year for SWB with the opening of the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, of which PCCT services are paramount in delivering the clinical model for in and out of hospital services.
As the Director of Therapies (DOT), you will be part of the group quadrumvirate working alongside Clinical Director, Group Director of Nursing, Group Director of Operations. Professionally the DOT will report to the Chief AHP (once appointed) and the Chief Nurse working to develop and deliver strategies for therapies workforce trustwide.
For further information please contact Lydia Jones, [email protected], 07977 687692
Main duties of the job
- Be a member of the PCCT senior leadership team supporting the group and the wider organisation/Chief Nurse/AHP in balancing the challenges of providing a high quality and safe service with excellent outcomes in a way that delivers efficiencies and meets the expectation of patients and other key stakeholders.
- Be the profession led for therapies provision across the directorates with responsibility for ensuring operational efficiency and effectiveness, budgetary control, clinical governance, and risk management in collaboration with Clinical/Directorate leads.
- Provide direct support and advise the new hospital project to include the development of Midland Metropolitan Hospital, Sandwell Treatment Centre, Sheldon Block and the continued use of other retained estate and therapy workforce needs.
- Use expert clinical knowledge to support the Chief Nurse/Chief AHP across all therapeutic services trust-wide supporting deliver of Out of hospital and bed base programmes of work.
- Be responsible for ensuring clinical and professional standards are met across all therapy services, ensuring effective governance, risk, compliance and key quality metrics are in place to deliver safe, effective, high quality services.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details about this job role, please see the attached job description and person specification for more information.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working in adult clinical services in a senior role to include challenging the status quo and managing conflict
- Significant experience working at senior management level, including performance, finance and clinical governance, risk management
- Proven experience of improving quality and safety.
- Significant experience of managing change.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in diverse communities
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with Health & Care Professions Council
- First level therapy degree or equivalent
- Master’s Degree or equivalent level of academic achievement
- NHS leadership qualificatio
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Project management qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lydia Jones
- Job title
- Group Director of Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07977687692
- Additional information
Additional Contact - Simon Mitchell, Group Director of Primary Care, Therapies and Community
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