Job description

Job responsibilities

Reporting directly to the Executive Director of Quality and Chief Nurse, as an experienced AHP the Chief AHP provides professional leadership and strategic direction aligned to the Trusts Strategic Objectives.

The Chief AHP is a key member of the Trusts Director of Quality and Chief Nurses Senior Leadership Team and also the Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Council. Representing AHPs at this level, providing strategic direction to the professions and the wider Trust acting as a role model, a point of contact and / or advice and expertise on professional issues relating to AHPs and demonstrating compassionate leadership and the values of the organisation.

Through living the trusts values (caring, listening and excelling), the Chief AHP will support the delivery of the Trusts purpose which is to improve the health, wellbeing and experience of the people we service by ensuring outstanding care is delivered every day.

The Post-holder will be pivotal in identifying AHP workforce transformative potential, supporting innovation and new ways of working to meet current and future needs of our patients and delivering the next chapter of the AHP national strategy. They will be responsible for providing an advanced level of strategic thinking to the AHP services and wider Trust, being able to convert concepts into plans and communicate these effectively to a wide range of audiences.

Liberating the potential and demonstrating the value of AHPs will be a key priority.

The Chief AHP will be part of the decision-making body ensuring Trust decisions are inclusive of AHPs views.

The Chief AHP is responsible for establishing and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and stakeholder relationships across local, regional and national networks. The post holder will play a system partner leadership role in the ICS AHP Council and Faculty as one of three, senior AHP NHS leaders in Gloucestershire and will be pivotal to developments in a systems approach.

Working in a highly collaborative way, resulting in significant organisational efficiencies and the bringing together of professions at all levels including links with regional and national professional bodies, influencing national policy, responding to national professional issues, implementing and embedding new professional development initiatives relevant to individual professions and the collective staff group.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Allied Health Care Professional
  • Master’s Degree (level 7) qualification or significant equivalent experience
  • Management or leadership qualification or relevant experience.
  • Significant post registration experience including demonstrable experience at senior level
  • Delivery of large scale change programmes
  • Ability to prepare reports, analyse highly complex data for Boards, Committees, and Management groups.
  • Track record of delivering against set objectives and achieving organisational targets, under tight timescales
  • Experience of working with service users
  • Experience of representing, developing and leading teams and services and subsequent systems, processes and reporting structures
  • Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and associated control mechanisms.
  • Knowledge of the changing nature of Allied Health workforce
  • Knowledge of the educational framework for both undergraduate and postgraduate
  • Understands the commissioning and funding of education

    • Desirable

  • Evidence of National/Regional level work
  • Experience of NHS management outside of AHP services

    • Communication

    Essential

  • Highly developed leadership skills
  • Ability to communicate a compelling vision of the future for AHPs
  • Able to work across organisation boundaries, developing working partnerships and networks regionally to support the delivery of effective care
  • Able to manage the process of change and overcome resistance to change in working practices

    • Planning

    Essential

  • Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
  • Sets high standards personally and for others and act as an effective role model for the profession and develops own Credibility through the demonstration of high professional standards
  • Commitment to own personal development and to that of others

    • Physical Skills

    Essential

  • Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information systems.

    • Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Registered Allied Health Care Professional
  • Master’s Degree (level 7) qualification or significant equivalent experience
  • Management or leadership qualification or relevant experience.
  • Significant post registration experience including demonstrable experience at senior level
  • Delivery of large scale change programmes
  • Ability to prepare reports, analyse highly complex data for Boards, Committees, and Management groups.
  • Track record of delivering against set objectives and achieving organisational targets, under tight timescales
  • Experience of working with service users
  • Experience of representing, developing and leading teams and services and subsequent systems, processes and reporting structures
  • Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and associated control mechanisms.
  • Knowledge of the changing nature of Allied Health workforce
  • Knowledge of the educational framework for both undergraduate and postgraduate
  • Understands the commissioning and funding of education

    • Desirable

  • Evidence of National/Regional level work
  • Experience of NHS management outside of AHP services

    • Communication

    Essential

  • Highly developed leadership skills
  • Ability to communicate a compelling vision of the future for AHPs
  • Able to work across organisation boundaries, developing working partnerships and networks regionally to support the delivery of effective care
  • Able to manage the process of change and overcome resistance to change in working practices

    • Planning

    Essential

  • Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
  • Sets high standards personally and for others and act as an effective role model for the profession and develops own Credibility through the demonstration of high professional standards
  • Commitment to own personal development and to that of others

    • Physical Skills

    Essential

  • Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information systems.

    • Certificate of Sponsorship

    Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

    From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

    UK Registration

    Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

    Additional information

    Certificate of Sponsorship

    Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

    From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

    UK Registration

    Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).