Job summary
- Main area
- Community Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 2 years (Initially this post is as a 2 year fixed term post also available as a secondment)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Participation in the manager on call rota is expected)
- Job ref
- 338-7425904-25
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross locality cover
- Town
- Malton
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 29/09/2025
Employer heading
Therapy Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
We are looking for an AHP with a passion for AHP services to join us as Therapy Lead for community services in community. Our services are delivered across Scarborough / Ryedale / Whitby and Pocklington. We are open to considering a flexible base for the post.
Main duties of the job
The therapy lead will provide clinical leadership to the aligned clinical services including urgent community response, intermediate care and community AHP services. The post holder will report to the divisional clinical lead and provide visible leadership across a range of service settings, monitoring and maintaining high professional standards.
The post holder needs to be an innovative and dynamic practitioner committed to improving the patient experience, improving standards of care and services, supporting the leadership team in delivering the trust strategy whilst upholding the trust strategy and values.
The post holder will be an integral member of the senior leadership team providing support to implement and monitor progress on delivery of strategic objectives to ensure the provision of high-quality care.
They will provide clinical advice and link with the trust AHP professional leads for advice as required. Actively contributing to innovative solutions driving forwards quality improvement work and ensuring that high standards of care are maintained and delivered. They will ensure that services are using evidence to support safe and effective service delivery and contribute to the delivery of the patient safety and quality agenda.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regards to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications, Education and training
Essential criteria
- • Current AHP registration and be on the NMC/HCPC live register • Educated to Masters Level or Masters level/Post Graduate modules plus significant advanced knowledge/ experience • Be on the live register of mentors if required for the service area • Prepared to undertake or hold a recognised non-medical prescribing qualification, if required
Desirable criteria
- • Successful completion of non-medical prescribing course if required • Teaching qualification • Advanced/expert clinical qualification
Skills Competecnies and peronsonal qualities
Essential criteria
- • Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally • Good time & project management skills • Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive • Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change • Sound experience/knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others • Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity • Ability to effectively commute between the organisations various sites
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, • Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area • Standard IT skills with working knowledge of IT systems relevant to own area of work • Evidence of leadership and organisational development issues that have had a positive impact on service delivery • Experience of successful clinical policy implementation and change • Evidence of professional development work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change, that impacts beyond own area of work • Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice • Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the service area • Proven leadership experience at an advanced level which has had a positive impact/created change within service delivery/practice • Organisational networking locally, regionally, nationally • Be able to effectively Chair meetings • Ability to work across organisational boundaries, developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
Desirable criteria
- • Member of organisational group/network, locally/regionally/nationally • A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katie Barraball
- Job title
- Clinical lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07850853206
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