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Deputy Head of Allied Health Professions
The closing date is 15 July 2025
We have a rare opportunity to advertise the Role of a Deputy Head of AHP in the North Kent Directorate. As a Deputy Head of AHP you will support teams across the directorate including MHT/+, MAS, EIP/ARMS, LPS, HTT/RR, Rehab - inpatient and community.
You will provide clinical/professional supervision to a range of Occupational Therapy staff; you will develop relationships with locality service managers, operational team managers and lead clinicians; you will provide clinical leadership across the North Kent Directorate. You will be a key member of both the North Kent Senior Leadership Team and the Trust Wide AHP Leadership Team and as such will receive support from both teams to fulfil your role. You will work closely with the Head of AHP for North Kent to provide senior clinical leadership to the directorate.
The role is up to 0.60/22.5 hrs per week with some flexibility around working hours and base within North Kent.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Main duties of the job
* Provision of clinical/professional supervision to OT staff
* Providing clinical leadership and support to teams across all North Kent Directorate Services
* Attendance of and contributing to a range of North Kent, Trust Wide and AHP Leadership Meetings
* Leading/facilitating CPD opportunities for OT staff including forums, Action Learning Sets and training.
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Job responsibilities
* To support the directorate head of AHPs in delivery of effective and efficient professional management and clinical leadership of all AHP Staff within the Directorate.
* Promoting and demonstrating best, evidence-based practice through supervision and appraisal.
* Influence and develop local professional policies, best practice standards and clinical guidelines within the Directorate and specialist practice settings.
* Identify and influence practice/service development/improvement through clinical leadership and clinical effectiveness networks across integrated care systems.
* Promote and facilitate service user and carer involvement in the planning and delivery of practice and service development/improvement.
* Provide clinical/professional leadership and influence for strategic planning and service delivery across professional and organisational boundaries in conjunction with Directorate head of AHPs.
* Develop and facilitate a quality improvement, audit and research culture, which supports others to engage in evaluation activities and service improvement.
* Promote and develop a culture of learning and continued professional development of AHP staff and students within the Directorate and across service boundaries using a collaborative approach.
* Provide training and education in own specialist area of practice to meet the needs of the organisation and allied health professions.
Please see job description for full details.
Person Specification
knowledge and skills
* Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism at all times, especially in complex/challenging situations.
* Able to make decisions autonomously and co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team
* Ability to deal with large volumes of information and to draw out key issues/themes for the AHP workforce
* Ability to prioritise own work effectively and to be able to guide others
Personal Attributes
* Good organisational skills
* Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team
* Hold a current full driving licence and owns a vehicle suitable for work
Training qualifications and registration
* A recognised Occupational Therapy professional qualification
* Registration with the Health Care Professions Council
* Evidence of significant personal development through formal postgraduate courses or experience eg MSc or equivalent
* Approved Practice Educator
* Registered member of RCOT and/or special interest group
Experience
* Extensive experience in clinical practice, holding a range of experience within a variety of settings
* Experience of delivering and coordinating clinical/professional supervision
* Experience of recruitment and selection of staff
* Previous experience within a clinical leadership/professional management role
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.
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a yearper annum pro rata
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