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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Contact
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
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Head of Allied Healthcare Professionals (Community Services)
Closed for applications on: 19-Jan-2024 08:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 19-Jan-2024 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- AHP Office, Abingdon Admin Building
- Address
- Abingdon Community Hospital
- Town
- Marcham Road, Abingdon
- Postcode
- OX14 1AG
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
Salary
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 Per annum | Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Head of AHPs Community
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Due to internal promotion, we are looking for a Senior AHP to support clinical and professional leadership being responsible for ensuring high quality AHP practice, rehabilitation and care across the community directorate.
It is recognised that our AHP professionals provide invaluable input and this is the opportunity for us to develop this offer, support existing services, and be involved in co-producing change to innovate and transform.
The Primary, Community and Dental Directorate has a complex array of services within 6 different pathways incorporating: Community Therapy, Respiratory, Physical Disability Physiotherapy Service (PDPS), Adult Speech and Language Therapy, Nutrition and Dietetics, Post COVID Rehabilitation Service, Minor Injury Units (MIU), Urgent Community Response (UCR), Podiatry, Falls Service, Care Home Support, Hospital.
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The Head of AHPs Community will be accountable for the AHP input within the directorate, providing frontline clinical leadership, professional AHP leadership and support to workforce on clinical standards and AHP practice, ensuring a focus on patient-centered care, and outcomes. This post is a pivotal part of both the AHP leadership team and the directorate senior leadership team. Key to this role is ensuring the development of the community offer to support effective care delivery in the patient’s home, community or clinics in line with the National and Community service directorate strategy.
The post holder is expected to contribute fully to effective partnership working with other organisations to improve the integrated health and social care offer to the local community. This role will contribute appropriately to Trust wide AHP and directorate wide tasks/ projects with the senior leadership team and corporate colleagues. A key area is highlighting AHP capability, ensuring involvement in services from concept to delivery.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Head of Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Community is responsible for working with the Associate Director of AHPs, AHP Clinical and Professional Leads, Chief Nurse, Service Directors, Clinical Directors, and the Director of Nursing to establish high quality AHP practice, rehabilitation, and care throughout Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
This post will be line managed within the Primary, Community and Dental Directorate by the Clinical Director and Service Director. They will also have a responsibility to the Clinical Director as part of the senior team, in addition to leading on specific areas of the Associate Director of AHPs clinical corporate responsibilities to be agreed within the individual job plan.
The post-holder will lead AHP clinical and practice developments in the Directorate with a particular focus on the clinical standards, practice and strategy to the development and the quality of AHP and clinical care and clinical standards. The post holder will have accountability for AHP and clinical standards within the Primary, Community and Dental Directorate
The post holders will deputise for the Associate Director of AHPs/Clinical Director/or the Service Director as required.
As part of the Senior Management Team (SMT) the Head of AHPs Community is also responsible for contributing significantly to the overall Directorate strategy/policy to ensure that the Directorate delivers its quality, people, finance, and performance objectives.
The post holder will be responsible for driving improvement in clinical practice and contributing towards the Trusts quality objectives and the achievement of high clinical standards of care delivered in the Primary, Community and Dental Directorate.
They will contribute to and lead Trustwide quality initiatives under the Associate Director of AHPs portfolio and agenda.
As part of a ‘matrix’ style organisation structure the Head of AHPs Community is also responsible for working highly collaboratively with ‘horizontal’ leads from across the Directorate and the broader Trust. This includes clinical and non-clinical professional leads such as medical, nursing, therapies, social work, psychology, learning disabilities, finance, HR, IM&T, estates, emergency planning etc.
As a very senior leader in the organisation the post holder is always expected to role model exemplary personal and leadership qualities. This will include routinely deputising for the Service or Clinical Director.
We have 6 of the 8 professions represented within the Oxford Health NHSFT. In Community Services this includes Dietitians, Occupational Therapists, Paramedics, Physiotherapists, Podiatrists and Speech and Language Therapists. Professionally diverse teams increase the likelihood of meeting these and other challenges currently faced and we welcome applications from any of the AHP professions. We are committed to the National AHPs Deliver Strategy, Oxford Health AHP Strategy and actively promote the values of anti-racism and inclusion.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/ahp/allied-health-professionals-into-action-next-chapter/
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- High level of knowledge and understanding of professional and contemporary issues in AHP, Community Services, and NHS.
- High level clinical skills and knowledge in own speciality
- High level of facilitation, negotiation and influencing skills
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Appropriate AHP degree
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Participation in a relevant NHS Senior Management Development Programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of the development of good relationships across a range of key stakeholders
- Demonstration of well-developed and effective leadership skills
- Experience in a senior leadership or management role
- Experience in setting objectives and performance management and holding people to account
Desirable criteria
- Good research and audit skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sam Rigg
- Job title
- Associate Director of AHPs
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07827 822599
- Additional information
Sarah Buy-Johnson, PA to the Senior AHP Leadership Team
07789 692517
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- White Building
- Littlemore Mental Health Centre
- Oxford
- OX4 4XN
- Telephone
- 01865 904100
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