Senior Allied Health Professionals Clinical Lead

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Due to internal promotion, there is the opportunity to support clinical and professional leadership across the Community Directorate. It is recognised that our AHP professionals provide invaluable input and this is the opportunity for us to develop this offer, support existing services, and be involved in co-producing change to innovate and transform.
There is a new 8b opportunity available. This is within Community Hospitals to support with Patient Flow, Integration into TOC, development of the D2A pathway in conjunction with community partners and support the clinical and leadership opportunities within Community Rehabilitation.
In addition, this post will support the transformation programme for our Podiatry service working with Head of Service, Operational and Clinical Leads to provide clinical leadership and AHP specific opportunities for development.
The Senior Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) Clinical Lead will be accountable for the AHP input within Community Rehabilitation and Podiatry, providing frontline clinical leadership, professional AHP leadership and support to staff on clinical standards and AHP practice, ensuring a focus on patient-centred care, and outcomes.
This post is a pivotal part of both the AHP leadership team and the pathway senior management team. Key to this role is ensuring the development of the community offer to support effective care delivery in the patient’s home, community, clinics and wards in line with the National and Community Services Directorate strategy. In addition, this role will support patient flow through Community Hospitals and effective discharge outcomes.
The postholder is expected to contribute fully to effective partnership working with other organisations to improve the integrated health and social care offer to the local community. This role will contribute appropriately to Trust wide AHP and directorate wide tasks/ projects with the senior leadership team and corporate colleagues.
We have 6 of the 8 professions represented within the Oxford Health NHSFT. In Community Services this includes Dietitians, Occupational Therapists, Paramedics, Physiotherapists, Podiatrists and Speech and Language Therapists. Professionally diverse teams increase the likelihood of meeting these and other challenges currently faced and we welcome applications from any of the AHP professions. We are committed to the AHPs Deliver Strategy and actively promote the values of anti-racism and social justice.
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Allied Health Professionals strategy - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
The post holder must develop a culture of clinical improvement, leading by example and empowering AHPs to improve outcomes for patients in community services. This means being known and visible to staff, visiting wards/teams/services regularly, being familiar with the patients, their needs and the challenges faced by our workforce. It is putting person centered, evidence-based practice at each stage of the care pathway. Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams including our partners in our own community services, adult social care, acute sector, ambulance services and third sector, offering expertise in the management of complex cases and clinical delivery. Having oversight to highlight achievement and outstanding practice, acting when clinical standards or performance demand improvement and providing leadership of their services though national and local change agendas.
To clinically and professionally lead the AHP teams, providing visible, accessible, clinical leadership to staff delivering clinical care within the pathway and lead by example in the delivery of high-quality standards that focus on improvement and consolidation of skills and delivery of evidenced based outcome measures.
Being respectfully curious is a good thing. It helps identify issues of concern which might otherwise remain hidden undermining the cultures of quality, improvement and inclusivity we strive for
To build an effective clinical network both in your own profession and with other professionals and leaders – this is a key element in effective leadership and the promotion of an outstanding service for patients.
The Senior AHP Lead is the operational line manager for the AHP leads and advanced clinical practitioners and is therefore responsible for ensuring that their practice meets the requirements of the Trust in all areas in addition to promoting their clinical and leadership development
To be actively and visibly involved in the delivery of patient care, visiting sites regularly, knowing about the patients, their needs and the challenges faced by your teams. This means person centered care at each stage of the care pathway, attaining the standards of care required in the Trust and evidenced in audits and national surveys. More importantly delivering the service you are proud of and that you would want to receive. You will need to meet regularly with the teams to review clinical quality standards and support where needed on complex cases and service delivery.
To actively promote a psychologically safe and transparent ethos, being accountable for ensuring that appropriate supervision takes place. This should be in line with Trust and professional requirements supporting the needs of the clinicians and recognising this is a key indicator in clinical outcomes and patient safety
The Senior AHP Lead is key to supporting practice-based learning at all levels, contributing to student selection, working with local universities, learning & development, AHP workforce lead and recruitment to support workforce development. This will include staff retention and recruitment, ensuring that the workforce numbers and skill mix are appropriate. You must make sure that systems for local induction are actively implemented, feedback is encouraged, development plans are the norm and career pathways are evident.
You must ensure systems are in place which promote person centered treatment and care for patients, improve the quality of their experience, and that any complaint is addressed quickly and efficiently. You will need to make sure that quality of communication with patients and their carers/relatives is clear, understanding and open in line with Trust procedures. Have oversight of the investigation of complaints and incidents locally, ensuring that all necessary steps are taken to support the workforce, improve patient safety and promote learning.
Work in conjunction with the operational managers to support the delivery of HR policies and procedures. Including budgets across the pathway, ensuring that expenditure is managed, teams are planning leave and managing cover and absence effectively. It will require you to understand how costs may be managed in the context of varying clinical demand and support development of business cases to adapt service provision as needed. Ensuring the health and well being of the workforce is seen as vital in delivering on patient outcomes and safety
Ensure that information and records are written to and maintained to the Professional body, Department of Health and the organisational standards
Prepare reports, represent the pathway and Trust and deputise for senior colleagues as required.
Y ou will advise the Trust wide Senior AHP Lead, Clinical and Service Director on any matters relating to professional issues affecting the delivery of care or services generally, and work with them to resolve these. Provide advice and support to the other members of the MDT in relation to therapy standards and service delivery.
Promote clinical governance and assurance systems as the key to improved patient outcomes and patient safety, establishing and implementing within designated services and in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. Empowering risk assessment and clinical reasoning as key skills for all clinicians
Ensure that the Trust and local policies and procedures are effectively distributed to staff and that adequate training and education is in place to enable staff to understand, adhere to, and promote these in and across designated service areas.
Contribute to the operational and strategic planning for existing and new services to address national, regional, and local initiatives.

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