Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professional
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-MCORP-7397587
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Elizabeth House
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £91,342 - £105,337 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Chief AHP
Band 8d
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Chief AHP in the Nursing, AHP & Quality Directorate at CPFT.
We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Allied Health Professional working in the organisation. The role will hold a diverse portfolio and work closely with the Chief Nurse, Deputy Director of Quality and Deputy Chief Nurse. If you aspire to further develop your AHP leadership career and truly make a difference to our community we would love to hear from you.
Candidates must already be working at a Band 8c level to apply for this post.
For any further information please contact Rachel Gomm [email protected] or Mike Seaman [email protected]
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a key member of the Corporate Nursing, Allied Health Professions and Quality Team, with specific responsibility for deputising for the Executive Chief Nurse across all aspects of the role.
As Chief Allied Health professional, the post holder will provide expert professional leadership and governance for the Trusts Allied Health Professions.
The postholder will contribute to the strategic development of nursing, AHP’s, clinical governance and risk, supporting the Executive Chief Nurse in providing leadership to the nursing and AHP workforce for the delivery of the professional agendas across the Trust.
The post holder will support the development, implementation and maintenance of Trust wide nursing and AHP policy and best practice. The post holder will lead the development and implementation of systems and processes that place patient quality, experience and safety initiatives at the core of Trust practice and business.
They will promote a culture of learning and openness and ensure clinical staff have the knowledge, capability, systems and support to embed lessons learned in practice.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To fully deputise for the Chief Nurse across all aspects of the role. To provide professional leadership to all AHPs, and also nursing and other non-medical staff, promoting high standards of care and a responsive workforce.
- To lead on CQC compliance for the Trust, ensuring any key actions are fully implemented.
- To work with the Chief Nurse and the Medical Director on the development and implementation of the Trust’s clinical quality strategic objectives.
- To effectively manage overall AHP staffing issues across the Trust.
- The post holder will support Patient Safety and clinical governance across the Trust, ensuring the implementation of national and local Quality and Safety initiatives and contractual obligations in relation to quality and safety reporting.
- The post holder will support the implementation and development of the clinical governance framework through Directorates, develop innovative solutions to quality and safety challenges and ensure lessons learned are embedded in practice.
- To support the implementation of national quality drivers arising from national enquiries, working with clinical leads and management teams.
- To lead on the implementation of the national AHP strategy within the Trust, and contribute to local and national strategies including Nursing, AHP’s, Clinical Governance and Patient Safety by participating in external events and forums ensuring a visible CPFT profile.
- Contribute in the production of quality and safety assurance reports for Commissioners, Regulators, Sub Board Committees and the board
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of national and local AHP priorities and current NHS policy and ability to interpret and implement into practice.
- Significant experience of positive staff engagement in transformation and operational effectiveness.
- Significant experience in developing and implementing systems and processes for managing non-clinical risk.
- Significant experience of developing and implementingsystems and processes formanagement of workforce,patient safety, patient experience, complaints and the broad clinical governance.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed Influencing and negotiating skills Proved ability of proposing and implementing quality improvement projects at a Trust level.
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information Overcoming barriers to understanding and managing and reconciling conflicting views.
- Ability to rapidly assimilate a range of complex, often clinical information and make expert judgements using advanced analytical skills Development of new initiatives with demonstrable impact on quality, safety and experience of services.
- Competence and confidence in chairing committees and presentations.
Desirable criteria
- Coaching and mentoring skills
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in relation to professional,quality and safety policy issues.
- Passionate about patients and delivering high quality patient care with compassion Passionate about leading the profession.
- Ability to role model values and standards of the organisation.
Other
Essential criteria
- Must be able to drive.
- A strong personal motivation to improve quality of care.
- Approachable/builds rapport.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Gomm
- Job title
- Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
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