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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-RFL-8307838
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Barnet Hospital
Town
Barnet
Salary
£100,493 - £114,951 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/11/2026 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 8d Head of Therapy Services – Barnet and Chase Farm sites

NHS AfC: Band 8d

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

The Head of Therapies is a senior clinical and operational leadership role with responsibility for the strategic, professional, and operational management of Therapy Services across Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals. The post holder is accountable for the delivery, performance, quality, safety, and financial management of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics, and associated support staff services. As a key member of the Trust's management structure, the post holder will provide visible leadership for Therapy Services, ensuring services are responsive, sustainable, and aligned to the Trust's strategic objectives, national priorities, and best practice standards. The role is responsible for ensuring that therapy services are appropriately staffed and skilled to meet the complexity and needs of patients across the organisation. The post holder will work in partnership with the Group AHP Lead to influence and develop the Trust's Allied Health Professional (AHP) strategy, ensuring alignment with the wider clinical strategy and NHS transformation agenda. They will represent the Trust at local, regional, and system forums, including the North London AHP Council, Integrated Care System (ICS) partnerships, and other professional networks, promoting collaboration and innovation across organisational boundaries. This is a senior clinical leadership post requiring expert-level clinical practice.

Main duties of the job

• To hold overall accountability for the management of all staff and other resources within Therapy services on the Barnet and Chase farm sites.

• Provide professional and clinical leadership for therapy services staff across the Barnet and Chase Farm sites and associated satellite services.

• To proactively encourage and facilitate the provision of the pre-registration and post graduate training and education.

• Identify opportunities for research and development. 

• To remain up to date with changing objectives, external guidance, frameworks and directives, advising the relevant directorates as necessary.

• To promote world class care and work in a way that is patient-centred, involves service users, responds positively to feedback from user groups and promotes teamwork across services.

• To promote a culture of safety and quality, openness and accountability, public service and teamwork in an environment of flexibility in which innovation can flourish in response to patients’ needs.

• To be accountable to the site leadership team for financial performance relating to delegated budgets for which this post is responsible and the operational performance of the directorate providing reports to the Divisional Board as required.

• To ensure the delivery and compliance of mandatory training requirements for all staff Trust standards and targets.

• To advise the Barnet business unit on all professional, ethical and legal matters relating to services within this remit.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • • Masters level or equivalent
  • • Post graduate qualification
  • • Registration with HCPC
  • • Evidence of continuing personal development
Desirable criteria
  • • Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Substantial senior management experience in the NHS or equivalent
  • • Evidence of leading and managing change within a complex environment
  • • Strategic planning and project management
  • • Managing budgets

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Leadership of a multidisciplinary team and delivering to deadlines and within resources.
  • • Significant acute operational management experience in a complex healthcare organisation
  • • Service planning and project management
  • • Broad understanding of the NHS and key policy issues which effect performance
  • • Aptitude to engage in constructive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to achieve success through partnership
  • • Ability to achieve effective team working within the division and across divisions
  • • Able to provide formal teaching/development to staff and colleagues.

Aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to work under pressure and flexibly in a dynamic environment

Royal Free shared commitments

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Susan Tierney
Job title
Divisional Director of Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
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