Children’s Hospital Lead AHP

2 months ago


London, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

This new role within the Children's Hospital services has been proposed, established in response to increasing demands on hospital AHP leadership and supported by Evelina Charity within the Children's Hospital services, in response to the merger with the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals and the integration of clinical AHP services. The post holder will be required to shape and develop the AHP services across the two hospital sites, providing senior operational and strategic leadership to the clinical leads and their staff across the CRIC directorate. The aspiration is to ensure a smooth integration through this role to ensure that their needs and contribution are advocated for at directorate, clinical group and trust level, and with external partners.

Integration of Children's Cardio-Respiratory and Intensive Care (CRIC) services will involve a demanding programme of work for our CRIC teams. The post-merger integration is of huge strategic importance and will make a major contribution to the care that the Evelina London clinical group provides, at a time of significant operational pressure.

Main duties of the job

Take leadership of specific programmes of work related to hospital-based AHP workforce, under direction of the Evelina Chief AHP.

Take responsibility for and have oversight of operational delivery, financial performance, clinical performance and outcomes of hospital-based AHP services, ensure outcomes and advocacy are presented in AHP and Directorate wide Performance Review Meetings, and be able to respond to DMT requests regarding these domains.

Support the workforce integration across Royal Brompton and Evelina hospital sites across allied health services, ensuring good clinical governance of staff and services.

Ensuring service stability across services to ensure services are sustainable and safe, ensuring new models of care delivery are fully utilised in future delivery and embedded in SOPs/pathways.

Review job plans, demand and activity and equity of services across the two hospital sites.

Review staff development offers, training and education across the two hospital sites.

Input into the business planning to ensure CRIC AHPs feel represented and included. This will include supporting teams to work through the implications of any investment or disinvestment as, part of the integration.

About us

Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy's and St Thomas'.

As the only NHS Trust in London with women's and specialist children's services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. We operate through five clinical directorates: Children's Medicine and Neonatology; Children's Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia; Children's Cardio-respiratory and Intensive Care; Children's Community Services and Women's Services.

We provide care at our hospital sites, Evelina London Children's Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital, and provide community services for families in Lambeth and Southwark.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a key member of the CRIC Directorate Management Team (DMT), and other Evelina DMTs, in partnership with the Chief Childrens AHP, ensure clear communication of Trust and Directorate values, vision, priorities and expectations to ensure the engagement of teams to deliver services of the highest quality.

The post holders role will be to provide clinical, professional, strategic and operational leadership to childrens hospital AHP working within the CRIC and other hospital directorates.

The post will develop and support the Clinical leads to lead and manage the CRIC AHPs, through the integration. This will require taking responsibility and having oversight of operational delivery, financial performance, clinical performance and outcomes.

The post holder will be responsible for amplifying the voice of AHPs within the directorate, and ensuring equity of services for patients regardless of site.

The post holder will be responsible for sustaining and developing a strong working relationship with the Evelina Chief AHP in collaboratively developing opportunities and transforming the workforce within the CRIC directorate through the transformation opportunities.

The post holder will be responsible, alongside other members of the hospital senior leaders team to ensure the continued high profile of hospital services within Evelina and externally, and that teams are working effectively as key members of the wider Clinical Group and GSTT.

Review and challenge existing structures, ways of working and boundaries to ensure they remain fit for purpose and deliver effective safety, quality, risk and assurance management.

To contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of the hospital Directorates Service Delivery Plan

Work with the CRIC DMT and professional leads to manage the highly complex nature of the business area and ensuing that the appropriate strategic plans are developed and delivered within the complex operating framework.

To hold lead professionals to account for delivery of their objectives through regular performance review meetings, and to provide the support and challenge to ensure standards are met. This might require difficult conversations with colleagues.

Will support the clinical leads to ensure sufficient data availability within the Directorate to monitor and track performance and to satisfy reporting requirements related to the quality of nursing care and Directorate performance.

Provide the leadership and experience to support the clinical leads manage and deliver on the complex and changing workload across CRIC, which will include the need to identify and resolve conflicting priorities within tight timescales.

Provide appropriate input and challenge to clinical and business plans where necessary.

To ensure that all staff feel confident in raising their concerns and there is an appropriate mechanism in place for their voices to be heard.

Operate a visible leadership model, ensuring accessibility for staff, patients and the public so that open and honest communication channels are created.

To take on some level of clinical work at a senior level.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of managing a team Experience of managing change or innovation project Experience of operation management

Desirable

Expereinec of managing a muli-disciplinary team

Skills

Essential

Demonstrate skills of leading people

Desirable

Experience of leading people through change

Operational management

Essential

Managed a budget

Desirable

Experience of cost improvement programme

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