Main area Therapies Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent: 37.5 hours per week Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
Job ref 197-UT6386
Employer Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site University Hospital Lewisham
Town London
Salary £62,215 - £72,293 per annum plus HCAS
Salary period Yearly
Closing 09/02/2025 23:59
Interview date 06/03/2025
Head of Community Therapies
Band 8b
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.
A fantastic new opportunity has arisen to join Lewisham Community therapy team as a head of community therapies at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, motivated and passionate operational manager with a HCPC registration to gain experience in working in a busy and diverse directorate with an opportunity to develop partnership working across community pathways.
The community therapy team currently consists of Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language therapy teams with pathways across stroke, neurology, home first (including discharge to assess, supported discharge), bed based rehabilitation, community falls service, community urgent care response therapy and Bromley stroke rehabilitation.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a kind, compassionate and motivated clinical leader who can bring energy and focus to this exciting new head of community therapies.
The focus of this role is to support the lead therapists in their respective services and to represent Community therapies within the Trust and externally to SEL Commissioners and relevant Forums. Support is available as required for this Trust wide role so this post will potentially suit a therapist or HCPC registered individual currently in an 8a post looking to develop their skills further. There is no caseload or set clinical requirement for the post, however the successful candidate will have up to date knowledge of current community therapy practice and have the skills to be able to provide clinical and operational leadership.
The successful applicant will need to demonstrate strong experience in managing and leading teams, interpreting service level data and using it to inform decision making, proactive service improvement, financial management and strong experience in working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders. This strategic and operational role will be responsible for managing the Team Leads, take overall responsibility for the operational performance and financial management of the service, and working with the Clinical Leads will drive service improvement and redesign as indicated.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
* Degree/Relevant qualification as registered AHP
* Evidence of continuous professional development including a recognised long course or Masters
* HCPC registration
* Management Training
Experience
* Broad experience post qualification, with significant experience across patient pathways (Community, inpatient, outpatient)
* Experience of team leadership and effecting change
* Working knowledge of current national and local health care issues
* Experience of teaching/supervising under- and post-graduate staff
* Experience of budget responsibility
* Significant Community specific role experience
Knowledge & Skills
* Excellent communication skills across the organisation and with a wide range of staff with differing levels of responsibility and different professional backgrounds
* Experience of dealing with complex issues in a large organisation
* Ability to work pro-actively and co-operatively with senior management and clinical staff, including at times of stress
* Knowledge and experience of standard setting, quality issues and clinical audit, and an understanding of clinical governance
* Ability to undertake evaluation of the service
* Knowledge of service activity measures and clinical outcome measures
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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