Head of Children's Therapies

Are you an AHP ready to take the next step into a senior leadership role?

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is looking for a dynamic Head of Children's Therapies to lead and shape our integrated children's therapy services. We are inviting applications from Allied Health Professionals with clinical and strategic leadership experience in any of the four therapy professions:

• Speech and Language Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Physiotherapy

As Head of Children's Therapies, you will:

• Lead service development and transformation across therapies
• Drive workforce planning and innovation in line with national AHP priorities
• Collaborate with MDT colleagues to deliver high-quality, patient centred care
• Mentor and inspire AHP teams to achieve their full potential
• Influence service delivery at both local and Trust wide level

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced AHP leader who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and families through collaborative, evidence based practice.

If you're ready for the challenge and want to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To lead and develop the children's therapy services in line with national and local priorities.

To provide leadership ensuring provision meets the agreed quality standards, KPIs and activity targets across the community and hospital services.

To provide professional direction, clinical and managerial leadership with the therapy team leaders for each professional group.

About us

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital. CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough's only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including an A-birth ward, midwifery led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team. Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery. Our experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon. We are a very close knit and friendly organisation where every one of our 3,600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.

Person Specification Experience

• Understanding of the issues affecting therapy services and the wider children's agenda
• Experience of managing a number of different professional groups
• Proven experience of successful change management and service redesign
• Strategic service planning and evaluation
• Negotiating contracts with suppliers

Education and Qualifications

• Post Graduate Qualification
• HCPC licence to practice
• Master Degree or equivalent clinical experience

Knowledge and understanding

• Specialist professional knowledge
• Understanding of the issues affecting therapy services and the wider children's agenda

Skills / Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with wider teams and management clinical teams
• Excellent written report writing and verbal communication skills. Able to clearly articulate complex information and concepts
• Able to interpret data / information for service improvement

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.

£70,396 to £80,837 a year pro rata incl HCAS (outer)