Community Ahp Services Lead

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community AHP Services Lead to join our West Lancashire team.

As the Community AHP Service Lead you will lead the therapy teams to provide and develop therapy services to optimise therapy outcomes. Excellent communication skills, strong leadership ability and enthusiasm for the development of innovative ways of working, ensuring a high quality and effective service will all be required. You will link and work with a variety of stakeholders to achieve this goal.

The post holder will be a key driver for change and transformation to deliver the new service model and will be accountable for the overall human resource management of the service ensuring effective clinical supervision and management is in place.
Package DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Community AHP Services Lead within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

Band 8a salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

Main ResponsibilitiesAs a Community AHP Services lead, you will:

Provide a visible, accessible, and professional presence for colleagues, service users and their families and act as professional lead for the service.
Have overall responsibility for the safe and effective delivery of therapy services within West Lancashire.
Select and support others to develop clinical/professional leadership and agree a system of delegated responsibility for direct reports and other staff.
Lead and coordinate the development and utilisation of evidence-based practice standards and guidelines within the services
Provide visible and accessible leadership creating a climate where individuals understand their roles and responsibilities and people are empowered to be effective in their role

For a full list of job responsibilities please see the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
Hold a recognised professional qualification in AHP
Registered Health Care Professional with current HCPC registration
Knowledge of CQC outcomes framework and the ability to apply it in different healthcare settings.
Evidence of proven clinical leadership and operational management
Evidence of clinical pathway development and delivery

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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