Head of Allied Health Professionals - Secure Care Division
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Job overview
We are recruiting to an 8B Head of Allied Health Professionals post within The Secure Care Division. This is an exciting opportunity providing clinical and professional leadership to the Allied Health Professionals working across our inpatient and community based teams. They will also be part of the Allied Health Professionals leadership structure working alongside the Head of Allied Health Professions across the Trust and reporting professionally into the Executive Nurse Team.
Main duties of the job
The Head of The Head of Allied Health Professionals is responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership to all the Allied Health Professionals within their portfolio.
They will represent Allied Health Professionals at all levels, ensuring the highest levels of clinical practice and professional standards are embedded and that the services delivered are personalised, patient centred and innovative.
They will ensure the Allied Health Professionals have the correct leadership, clinical and governance structures in place so they are able to practice in a safe, effective and efficient way to deliver high quality services.
For further details in regard to this post prospective candidates should contact:
Lisa Weston, Interim Associate Director of Nursing & Patient Experience - Secure Care Division
Krystina Stanway, Assistant Director of Allied Health Professions - Executive Therapies
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for more details on the post holders roles, responsibilities and specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Appropriate Allied Health Professional qualification (Diploma/Degree).
- Health and Care Professions Council Registration as an Allied Health Professional.
- Educated to master's level or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of on-going professional development.
- Management or leadership qualification at postgraduate level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of management of clinical services.
Desirable criteria
- Member of special interest group.
- Member of relevant professional body.
- Accredited student educator.
- Coaching / mentoring experience.
- Research experience
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive relevant clinical and professional leadership experience in secure services
- Comprehensive senior management experience working in and being accountable for health services
- Extensive relevant experience at postgraduate level working in Allied Health Profession services.
- Experience of managing effective health care services with the proven ability to motivate.
- Experience of leadership and management of complex change management programmes, service transformation and service development.
- Successful implementation and monitoring of clinical outcomes, measures and audits
- Good understanding of Allied Health Professions professional issues and workforce development.
- Experience and ability to work under pressure and meet competing deadlines
- Experience of budget management and ability to analyse and implement financial reports and data
- Experience of presenting complex reports / presentations to Commissioners / partners and the Trust.
- Experience of taking decisions relating to the risk or safety of individuals and carrying professional responsibility for those decisions within a safeguarding and risk framework.
- Experience in developing and implementing policies and strategies.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Expertise in managing people, managing conflict, and balancing demand for resources with availability and prioritisation of same
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty and remain resilient in times of change.
- Proven skills in effectively chairing meetings.
- Proven persuasion and negotiation skills
- Determination, creative, facilitative, flexible.
- Highly motivated.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of presentation skills.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
- Head of Allied Health Professionals - JD PS (PDF, 182.5KB)
- Head of Allied Health Professionals - OH Risk ID (PDF, 248.6KB)
- A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
- Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
- Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)