Associate Director of Ahp

Associate Director of AHP & Haringey Borough Lead (Fixed term 12 months)

The Whittington Health Adult Community Service are seeking to recruit a new Associate Director of AHP for the Adult Community Services - who also acts as our Borough Lead for Haringey.

We are looking for an excellent AHP leader who will bring an appreciation of community working and will share our excitement about the significant potential for growth and development of services in the community.

Whittington Health is an integrated care organisation providing hospital and community care services to people living in Islington and Haringey and other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. We have over 4,400 staff delivering care across north London, and a highly-regarded educational role as part of the UCL Medical School. As an integrated care organisation, we bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience.

Our Adult Community Services has a CQC ‘Outstanding’ rating and a relentless focus on continuous improvement, innovation and integration.

Reporting to our Director of Operations (Adult Community Services) as a member of the quadrumvirate leadership team, and working closely with the Trust’s Chief Nurse, you will provide senior clinical leadership and will lead operational management at Borough level for Haringey. Key responsibilities will include:
Working with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations to lead all Adult Community Services activities and deputise for the Director of Operations as appropriate.

Acting as the lead professional for AHP in Adult Community Services and being an advocate for patients, clients and their families in the achievement of clinical excellence.

Delivering safe and high-quality community services across all our teams.

Providing system leadership for the service to drive through best practice changes to ensure that clinical outcomes for patients, clients and their families continually improve.

Championing strong collaboration across clinical pathways and ensuring the engagement of other services to maintain patient flow across the hospital and the community system.

Playing a significant role in the strategic development of Adult Community Services, developing business cases to support funding, defining on-going strategic direction through robust annual planning, multi-agency working and report writing.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

POST SUMMARY

Work proactively and collaboratively with the Clinical Director and Director of Operations to lead all ICSU based activities and deputise for the Director of Operations as appropriate.

To support the achievement of all the Integrated Care Service Unit (ICSU) based key performance targets and work in liaison with other ICSUs to share best practice.

Be the lead professional for AHP’s in the ICSU and to be an advocate for patients, clients and their families in the achievement of clinical excellence. The post holder will provide senior clinical leadership for AHP's or Nursing and will lead operational management within the ICSU at borough level.

To provide system leadership for the service to drive through best practice changes to ensure that clinical outcomes for patients, clients and their families continually improve.

To champion strong collaboration across clinical pathways and ensure the engagement of other services to maintain patient flow across the hospital and the community system.

The post holder will lead in the delivery of excellent care to ensure that local objectives align to the Trust Nursing & Midwifery/AHP strategic priorities.

Taking a trust wide lead in one/or more of the corporate nursing/AHP priority areas, the post holder will support the improvement and
strengthening of quality of care (patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness) by working closely with the local
governance leads. A key part of this role will include ensuring the delivery of CQC standards. Locally the post holder will lead on
optimising and strengthening the role and responsibility of shift leaders and senior nurses & AHPs within the ICSU.

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