Job overview
We are seeking an experienced senior leader to take on a newly configured Band 8c Head of MSK Therapy Services role on a 2-year fixed-term contract. This is a high-profile transformation post established to lead a defined programme of improvement across the MSK pathway. Subject to the successful delivery of agreed objectives, the role will revert to a substantive Band 8b position at the end of the fixed term.
The MSK Therapy Service provides care to the diverse population across Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge. Recent investment from NEL ICB presents a significant opportunity to modernise services, improve access and integration, and deliver better outcomes for MSK patients.
You will be responsible for delivering improvement targets through pathway redesign, including strengthening the single point of access, streamlining imaging requests, and improving referral processes to Trauma & Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery. Working closely with internal teams and system partners, the successful candidate will lead complex transformation work to ensure services are efficient, equitable, and aligned with best practice. This role requires extensive senior-level experience in MSK services and a proven track record of delivering change across complex healthcare systems.
Main duties of the job
The Head of the Therapy MSK Service is a senior healthcare professional working within the directorate of Cancer and Clinical Support Clinical Group providing leadership and management to healthcare staff within a designated directorate or site, consisting of specialist services located in outpatients across Queen’s and King George Hospitals, the Community and other satellite sites.
The post holder will work in a directorate triumvirate with the Clinical Director or Associate Director and the General Manager, with a particular focus on providing high quality, safe, well-governed, productive and cost- effective services which support the Trust in delivering its strategic objectives.
The postholder will support the triumvirate and others in providing strategic and inspirational leadership that will create a caring, fair and open culture in line with our Trust values.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Although this position is a 24 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 24 months.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
1. To have experience of continuous improvement work.
2. Significant senior clinical experience in Therapy MSK services as a B8a or above
3. To have participated in MSK or Outpatients networks across NEL or similar
Education/ Qualifications
Desirable criteria
4. Coaching training
5. Leadership qualification
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.