This is a new and pivotal leadership role, created to strengthen and transform stroke therapy services across the Trust.
We are looking for a dynamic, credible, and compassionate leader who can bring teams together and deliver real change.
This role is based at Frimley Park Hospital with cross-site working required, including regular presence at Wexham Park Hospital (minimum 1 day per week). This role involves participation in a 7 day therapy service.
You will be:
* A qualified Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist or Dietitian, with HCPC registration.
* An experienced clinician with extensive NHS stroke experienceProven 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 other.
We offer:
* A culture rooted in our values: Committed 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.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Main duties of the job
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.
* Work closely with clinical and operational leaders to deliver sustainable, high-quality services.
* This is a unique opportunity to build, influence and embed a modern stroke therapy model, ensuring patients receive the best possible care at every stage of their recovery.
Job responsibilities
* Lead a service by demonstrating advanced clinical skills and leadership skills to ensure the service achieves the aims and objectives of the Trust.
* Regularly undertake/lead audit with area and interpret National Guidance influencing key stakeholders and implementing change as required.
* Be a visible presence to lead teams of therapists and to be the point of contact for the Therapy directorate regarding provision and further development of specialist therapy services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC Registration
* MSc in related area or equivalent experience
* Member of relevant clinic interest groups
Experience
* Significant clinical experience working at a senior level in own professional area
* Team leadership including HR functions as well as 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
* Able to demonstrate 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 and influence and gain commitment from others
* Ability to organise (collect, process and interpret) complex information to reach sound conclusions
* Able to lead teams through service review, re-design and deliver change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£59,798 to £67,020 a yearper annum incl HCAS
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