Job Overview
This is a new and pivotal leadership role, created to strengthen and transform stroke therapy services across the Trust. The role is based at Frimley Park Hospital, with cross‑site working required including regular presence at Wexham Park Hospital, minimum one day per week. We are looking for a dynamic, credible, and compassionate leader who can bring teams together and deliver real change.
Candidate Profile
* A qualified Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist or Dietitian, with HCPC registration.
* Experienced clinician with extensive NHS stroke experience, proven in leadership and management, with the ability to lead across professional boundaries.
* Skilled in service development, quality improvement, and influencing change.
* Passionate about delivering excellent patient care and developing others.
What you’ll be responsible for
* Leading the delivery of specialist stroke therapy services across the Trust.
* Acting as the professional voice for stroke therapies, influencing at senior level.
* Driving clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement to enhance SSNAP performance.
* Managing and developing a multi‑disciplinary therapy workforce.
* Leading service transformation and pathway redesign.
* Ensuring high standards of patient safety, experience and clinical effectiveness.
* Supporting education, training and workforce development across stroke service.
* Working closely with clinical and operational leaders to deliver sustainable, high‑quality services.
* Building, influencing and embedding a modern stroke therapy model to ensure patients receive the best possible care at every stage of recovery.
Qualifications
* HCPC registration.
* MSc in a related area or equivalent clinical experience.
* Member of relevant clinical interest groups.
Experience
* Significant clinical experience working at a senior level in your professional area.
* Team leadership including HR functions, teaching, mentoring and developing others.
* Experience of contributing to the development of business plans and service development initiatives.
* Quality improvement experience including PDSA cycles.
* Experience leading a multiprofessional team.
* Delivering service change.
Desirable Experience
* Knowledge of budget management, cost improvement and efficiency measures.
* Experience of leading complaint and untoward incident investigations.
Skills and Knowledge
* Well‑developed interpersonal and communication skills.
* Able to negotiate, influence and gain commitment from others.
* Ability to organise, collect, process and interpret complex information to reach sound conclusions.
Desirable Skills
* Ability to lead teams through service review, redesign and deliver change.
Benefits
* A culture rooted in our values: Commitment to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future.
* The opportunity to lead a newly invested, high‑profile stroke service.
* A strong focus on staff wellbeing, inclusion and development.
* Opportunities to influence care across a large, forward‑thinking acute Trust.
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