The Strategic Lead for Allied Health Professions is a key leadership role within KMPT and a core member of the corporate Nursing and Quality team, supporting and enabling the Chief Nurse to deliver the professional leadership of AHP Practice across the Trust.
TheStrategic Lead for Allied Health Professionswill hold the delegated trust-wide portfolio of AHP workforce standards, development, and education and is responsible for implementing the strategic plan for AHPs that supports the delivery of operational and professional priorities.
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The post holder is accountable for contributing to and implementing the Trust's strategic objectives and developing standards based on evidence and best practices related to the AHP workforce. TheStrategic Lead for Allied Health Professions holds a key role in ensuring effective AHP input to policies, service transformation, and business planning. They will lead developments focussing on the effective utilisation of the AHP workforce within emerging care pathways which will guide the delivery of care for individuals and their carers both now and for the future. The AHP Leadership agenda is supported by five directorate AHP Leads alongside the AHP Education and Practice Lead. The role also holds responsibility for peer support workers and chaplains.
For this post, you should possess substantial clinical experience as an Allied Health Professional, be able to demonstrate evidence of your leadership development and have a proven successful record of leading others and managing change
KMPT has services across Kent and Medway, therefore the post necessitates travel across the county alongside some virtual working.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
• To maintain own professional and clinical proficiency and registration.
• To provide strategic direction and professional leadership to the Allied Health Professional, peer practitioner, and chaplaincy workforce across the trust.
• To be accountable for the safe, high quality, innovative, and effective delivery of clinical Allied Health Professions, peer support, and chaplaincy across KMPT in line with the trust's strategic aims.
• Develop a shared understanding of, and commitment to, the vision and strategic aims of the AHP services within the Trust, working with the Trust Board, staff, and associated external bodies.
• To interact with Non-Executive Directors on identified workstreams, and ensure visibility at sub-board committees.
• To initiate and lead the development and implementation of an AHP professional strategy and to be accountable for its review and evaluation.
• To maintain safe, effective, efficient, and innovative AHP practice, aligned to key priorities, across the Trust.
• To ensure that AHP activity, including developments is informed by and maintains a service user/carer and, recovery-oriented, focus.
• To ensure effective and efficient professional management of the AHP workforce within directorates ensuring AHPs are integrated and their contribution embedded in clinical pathways.
• To work as a member of the Trust’s senior management leadership team, providing clear professional advice and leadership at a strategic and operational level.
• To develop an education and career framework for AHPs, underpinned with strong systems for professional development at all levels.
Please see the job description for further details
This advert closes on Monday 22 Jul 2024
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