Clinical Expert - Allied Health Professional (Therapy Lead)
Healthcare Management Trust – St Hugh’s Hospital
HMT are looking for an experienced and passionate leader to drive the development and implementation of HMT's Reablement Strategy across our care homes and future community services. This role will play a key part in supporting our ambition to grow complex, niche services in community settings.
As a clinical leader for Allied Health Professional (AHP) care, you will ensure care home teams deliver therapeutic interventions and activities to the highest standards. You will also support the implementation and monitoring of HMT's innovative Clinical and Care Practice Model & Framework, shaping the future of care excellence within our organization.
In this role, you will embody HMT's values caring, enterprising, resourceful, authentic, and accountable to deliver compassionate care and clinical leadership. With a commitment to collaboration and innovation, you will place residents, patients, and our people at the centre of your work to deliver meaningful, quality care that makes a lasting impact on individuals and the communities we serve.
The role has the opportunity to work remotely with travel to sites expected as required.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead the development and implementation of HMT reablement strategy in all HMT Care Homes and future community offerings.
* Provide Allied Health Professional Clinical and Care Leadership by ensuring that all care home staff are working to defined standards of practice for therapeutic interventions and activities.
* Support the implementation and monitoring of the newly developed innovative HMT Clinical and Care Practice Model & Framework.
About us
At the Healthcare Management Trust, we are obsessed with achieving our Vision, to be the most innovative and best quality provider of niche health and social care services.
Our Purpose is to make every contact count, ensuring every resident and patient receives the best possible experience and outcome.
We aim to provide services which value collaboration and place our residents, patients and people at the heart of all we do. We will always do the right thing for our residents, patients and people.
We will be outwardly connected to the most innovative practices and service offerings in the market. We will do things differently and will be bold with our ambition to change things for the better.
We are passionate about what we do and so are our people. Bringing their most authentic selves to work and seeking joy and fun in what we do.
We will deliver care and clinical interactions compassionately and tailor them to individual needs.
We achieve this by living our business Values each and every day:
* We are caring
* We are enterprising
* We are resourceful
* We are authentic
* We are accountable
As a result, we are able to give back to the people and communities we serve by delivering on our Charitable Mission to provide quality and innovative care solutions to those with complex needs within marginalized community settings.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Lead and Expert for developing HMT reablement strategy for residents who have complex needs.
Support the implementation and governance of Clinical and Care HMT Practice Framework, HMT Clinical & Care Model systems and processes.
Participate and support the establishment and governance of a Clinical Leadership of Nursing & AHP Forum.
Contribute to clinical & care risk discussions by attending clinical risk related meetings.
Oversee the delivery of quality therapeutic assessments, care plans and interventions in care homes.
Provide clinical supervision, assistance with appraisals/PDP and advise on professional revalidation to AHP staff.
Maintain own clinical supervision requirements needed to revalidate NMC registration.
Support, advise and guide for practice elements on developing resident Clinical & Care Outcomes in care homes.
Participate in the development of HMT wide Clinical Record Keeping Policy, Audits, Training materials.
Support the Interpretation of HMT wide NICE guidance into clinical practice.
Lead the development & recruitment of new AHP clinical roles.
Act as a Senior member of HMTs central clinical team.
Work alongside the Head of Patient Safety & Quality Improvement to provide clinical input into all aspects of incident reporting.
Work alongside the Head of Learning & Development to develop clinical and care competency frameworks.
Person Specification
Experience
* Extensive clinical and managerial experience in health and social care organisations.
* Understanding of reablement and experience with adults with complex needs.
* Expertise in Leading and Managing change and service improvement.
* Experience of researching best practice and interpreting its relevance.
* Knowledge of specialist areas, particularly Safeguarding/MCA/DoLS.
* Ability to demonstrate compassionate leadership and problem-solving skills.
* Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and direct activities of others.
* Experience of managing and motivating a team.
* Willingness to engage with and learn from peers.
* Effective organiser, influencer, and networker.
* Will be required to travel within and outside of the HMT service areas.
Qualifications
* Current Registered Allied Health Professional with HCPC.
* Educated to masters level or equivalent experience in specialist AHP roles.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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