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Operational Manager- Physical Health Speech and Language Therapy
The closing date is 27 July 2025
Are you looking for an exciting new leadership role?
Due to a retirement and our ambitious plans for service transformation this 0.8 WTE role provides an exciting opportunity to lead our adult speech and language therapy services across acute and community specialities.
The successful candidate will have experience of operational leadership, a track record of delivering successful service improvements and a breadth of experience in adult speech and language therapy practice.
Adult speech and language therapy services are part of the Countywide Directorate delivering both acute and community services across a broad range of specialities and sites.
Why GHC Adult SLT ?
We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on CPD through access to specialist clinical support, team away days, sharing good practice and effective team working. We value our staff and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our therapists to contribute to service develop, and welcome and value new ideas and experiences. We have strong links with Universities and a commitment to student education. We are seeking to further develop our tracheostomy, FEES and VF pathways.
This post is part-time 30 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
The Operational Manager for Adult Speech and Language Therapy Services is responsible for ensuring high quality and effective delivery of Adult Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Services; managing financial, physical and human resources to comply with the requirements of robust operational governance and delivery against commissioned specifications.
The post holder will hold operational management and clinical leadership of Adult Speech and Language Therapy Services.
The post holder will work in collaboration with the senior management group to:
* Deliver operationally efficient and effective services
* Modernise and develop the services reflecting local needs and priorities
* Provide strong operational leadership for the service across the Countywide Directorate
* Ensure effective performance management of the group of services
* Adopt corporate and clinical governance and best practice principles in the delivery of services.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job responsibilities
Take a lead in ensuring that the implications of all local and national strategies and policies are interpreted appropriately for the profession, using this interpretation to assist.
To establish and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders (including commissioners, GHFT colleagues, Primary care colleagues, the private and voluntary sector) with the aim of promoting the service.
To represent the service at, and contribute to GHC, ICB and ICS strategic and governance meetings.
To ensure that all Adult SLT Service colleagues are aware of, and can contribute, both to key local/national strategies and to policies and service developments linked to an annual business plan and cycles of continuous improvement.
Using advanced communication skills ensure that colleagues from different partner organisations and patients are engaged with service developments and enabled to make a full contribution to the services programme of work.
Decision-making within the Adult SLT service.
Lead on the setting and monitoring standards for clinical practice and patient care and ensure professional teams have the right skills to deliver a high-quality service.
Provide operational leadership and clinical expertise to Adult Speech and Language Therapy colleagues.
Lead by example, with authority to change practice and improve care; this includes interpretation and implementation of evidence, best practice and clinical guidance/standards across the service, including NICE guidance.
Any other duties which are in line with the grade and general level of responsibility of the post
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Diploma/degree in Speech and Language Therapy
* Educated to Masters level or equivalent
* Recognised management qualification or equivalent
* Recognised high level qualification or experience in specialist areas of Adult Speech and Language Therapy
* HCPC registration
PERSONAL SKILLS ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
* An individual who displays the Trust's values with a high level of self-awareness to support and develop their team's talents to maximise performance
* Proactive, forward looking and innovative, with a strong personal resilience and emotional intelligence
* Excellent initiative, delegation, negotiation & organisational skills (including time management)
* Able to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices
Experience
* Significant operational management experience & leadership within a health, social care or voluntary sector organisation
* Significant experience in delivering high quality and safe clinical services, including NHS Speech and Language therapy focussed interventions for a range of physical health problems
* Experience in operational planning, negotiation, decision making, delivery and evaluation
* Experience of leading significant change management in operational practice
* Evidence of collaborative working and joint planning across multidisciplinary /multi-agency boundaries
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.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a yearper annum (pro rata)
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