The post holder will undertake the role of Assistant to the Head of Physiotherapy Services within the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. They will undertake the day to day operational management of the Physiotherapy Service and provide professional leadership for discrete specialties across the Health Board.
They will work with the Head of Service and leadership team to plan and deliver the long term departmental strategy in line with organisational and professional direction, ensuring plans are developed in line with the prudent principles reflecting safety, quality, effectiveness and efficiency.
The post holder will assist the Head of Service to identify needs, evaluate priorities and plan for the development of the service, seeking to introduce new developments and innovations and ensuring evidence based physiotherapy is implemented.
This post will hold clinical, professional, operational and financial responsibility for a number of services across CTMUHB Physiotherapy.
Responsibilities
* Provide clinical leadership and operational management of a specific group of staff of all grades within physiotherapy at various locations across the Health Board.
* Maintain personal clinical expertise in physiotherapy as appropriate, including direct supervision of staff, mentoring, clinical caseload management, tackling complex clinical issues, undergraduate education and acting as a specialist clinical resource to disseminate expert information to physiotherapy colleagues, the general public and other health care professionals.
* Be responsible and accountable for a designated area of the budget and the whole physiotherapy budget and resources in the absence of the Head of Service.
* Support the Head in performance management of the whole of the Physiotherapy Service to meet Health Board objectives including financial and Welsh Government targets, and plan and deliver the governance and learning and development agenda.
Qualifications
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. While it is not essential, applicants who can speak and listen in Welsh at Level 3 (CEFR B2) or above will have an advantage during short‑listing and selection. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see Welsh Language Guidance in the documents at the bottom.
Health Board Information
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in the three County Boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Core Values
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
* We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff the lifeblood of our organisation and the diverse communities that we serve.
Application
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
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