Interim Head of Therapies

Please note interviews are planned for Monday 3rd March 2025.
The exciting opportunity has arisen for an Head of Therapies interim post to provide professional, operational and clinical leadership and strategic planning to a multi-disciplinary team of clinical staff inclusive of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.
- To promote and communicate the objectives and benefits of an integrated Therapy Service to the Trust, Strategic, Regional and National groups/forums/networks.
- To be flexible and adapt to the changing demands and service needs of the Therapies Directorate.
- To ensure the Divisional Nurse Director & Divisional Operations Director are kept up to date with developments on a regular basis.
- T o ensure the Divisional Nurse Director & Divisional Operations Director are kept up to date with developments on a regular basis.
- To be responsible for ensuring that systems are in place to empower and engage frontline staff and ensure that they are involved at all levels to achieve service improvements
- Presenting complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group of staff.
- Provide and receive highly sensitive information where persuasive motivational negotiating skills are required.
- To provide expert advice in professional capacity to senior physiotherapy and occupational therapy staff.
- To work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team, building and maintaining effective working relationships within the Trust and the ICS.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
To be responsible for the delivery of an integrated Therapy Service within the Trust and externally through SLA’s.
- To provide professional, operational and clinical leadership and strategic planning to a multi-disciplinary team of clinical staff inclusive of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.
- To lead on the continued development and delivery of services service across two hospital sites.
- To be responsible for the continuous development and delivery of a high quality patient focused service within the specialty therapy team.
- The post will involve maintenance of a specialist clinical caseload as required.
- To act in a consultancy capacity and as an educational resource for HEI’s and other service providers.
- To represent the service within the Trust, ICS and Strategic, Regional and National groups/forums/networks.