Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 287-DSS-12-25
- Employer
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liverpool University Hosptials
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Nurse/AHP
Band 8a
Job overview
Based on the Aintree site you will work alongside an existing Lead Therapist with operational management for the First Response Team and Dietetics (including the Dietitians based at the Women’s Hospital) as part of the Aintree Inpatient Therapy Service.Ìý As part of this role there will be a requirement to work Monday and Tuesday’s. and provide cover across a 7-day model of care alongside the existing Lead Therapist works 0.6wte. You will report to a Head Therapist who leads the Aintree Inpatient Services.
The Lead Therapist has responsibility for the operational management of the team, driving quality, safety and standards of care. ÌýAn understanding of integrated working and the ability to deliver services across professions and integrated pathways is essential. You will work flexibly to respond to the changing needs of the service. You will be able to deliver service improvement initiatives and support delivery of evidence-based care.Ìý With strong leadership and people management skills you will be able to address a variety of people management related issues and be actively involved in addressing complaints, concerns ensuring a learning culture is in place.Ìý
Main duties of the job
Working collaboratively with teams within their Care Group and Division and also across the other clinical Divisions.
The post holder will also work closely with external partners, patients, patient representatives, relatives and carers.
The Lead Nurse/AHP will ensure that operational plans and performance are closely managed, by proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve difficult operational issues, in accordance with agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints, promptly escalating issues which are unable to be resolved.
The Lead Nurse/ AHP will have significant experience in leading teams, and will possess leadership skills to deal competently with difficult issues ensuring that policy is implemented and performance managed on behalf of the senior leadership team.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.Ìý
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Ìýis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.ÌýÌýis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.ÌýÌýspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheÌýÌýis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
ÌýFor roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theirÌý.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a member of the leadership team, you will work alongside other Therapies Leads, Professional Leads and Team Leaders, supported by the Therapies Senior Leadership Team and the Divisional Director of AHPs. The successful applicant will be passionate about quality improvement and the contribution of our services to improving patient experience and health outcomes.
Therapy Leads ensure that operational plans and performance are closely managed, by proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve difficult operational issues, in accordance with agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints.Ìý
As a collaborative compassionate leader, you will ensure engagement and empowerment of a diverse workforce through a coaching approach.Ìý
With experience in leading teams, the successful applicant will possess leadership skills to address difficult issues ensuring that policy is implemented and performance managed.Ìý
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they live our Trust values. You will play an important leadership role that focuses on achieving exemplary standards and creating a supportive and open culture.
Working under direction the post holder will implement patient centred clinical and Nursing/AHP operational strategy and plans, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to comply with relevant legislation and governance requirements, including linking with external bodies such as commissioners when required, utilising the expertise and skills of the wider Divisional team.
As a member of the management team, the Lead Nurse/ AHP contributes to strategic direction and policy setting for the Care Group, forming an essential two way communications link between the Care Group and staff in the wards and departments, ensuring that key messages, team brief etc. are shared and discussed.
They will demonstrate a coaching style of leadership, ensuring that staff and stakeholder engagement is in place, and action taken to address issues.
The post holder will have line management responsibility for Ward Managers and/or Band 7 Clinical AHP’s.
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Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls
- Demonstrate the ability to maintain high standards of care and team management over a sustained period.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on AHPs/clinical professional service.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy
- Understanding and appreciation of diversity
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Skills
Essential criteria
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead and implement quality improvement strategies.
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
- Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
- Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area.
- Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
- IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems.
- Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
- Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
- Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate competent project management skills
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level professional registration NMC/HCPC
- Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
- Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development, working towards masters
- Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
- Evidence of Leadership development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Linda Carpenter
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Nursing/AHP's
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151529 8081
- Additional information
For an alternative contact to Linda please contact Angela McAvoy Head of Operations via e-mail [email protected]
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