Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy of Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term from start date of employment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0501-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Shefield
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/07/2025
Employer heading
Operational Lead – Pathway 1 Transformation
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Are you passionate about, rehabilitation reablement and recovery?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and innovative therapist with proven project management experience to work across Sheffield Teaching Hospital (STH) and Sheffield City Council SCC) services focusing on delivering the Intermediate Care Framework for rehabilitation, reablement and recovery at home for Pathway 1 discharges from the acute hospital.
This is a fixed term 12 month position.
In Sheffield, pathway one services are primarily delivered by STIT (Sheffield City Council Short Term Intervention team providing reablement), Active Recovery (STH) providing multi-disciplinary health and care rehabilitation, the Integrated Care Therapy Team (STH) providing therapeutic interventions as well as additional independent sector homecare.
The ambition is for all of these services to deliver an integrated approach focusing on Discharge to Assess and maximising the reablement potential of individuals, embedding the Pathway 1 strategy and delivering the Intermediate Care Framework for rehabilitation, reablement and recovery following hospital discharge (NHSE) with the recipient of services experiencing a ‘team Sheffield’ approach around their particular needs and circumstances.
This post will be hosted by the Combined Community and Acute Care Group, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals on behalf of Sheffield.
Main duties of the job
You will have an excellent understanding of, and passion for, hospital discharge and home first, a strengths-based mindset, an analytical approach and ability to apply evidence-based methodology. You will be confident in leading change and managing in uncertainty.
You will be a strong, credible, and experienced leader who is able to successful navigate the intricacies of being in a system role.
You will have the ability to engage, facilitate and support system partners to drive forward innovation and redesign with a view to improved patient flow, improved patient outcomes, better work practices and efficient use of resources.
Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you have the drive and skills to help us deliver our vision?
Working for our organisation
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of twelve months due to the post being recruited as part of a limited term project within the Trust. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the requirement for the post to be maintained as a part of the project’s implementation and the timescales associated with this.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist.
- Management business/leadership qualification at post graduate level or equivalent experience/ knowledge.
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
- Project/programme management qualification e.g. Prince2 Practitioner, MSP or equivalent experience.
- Qualification in Service/Quality Improvement or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical/managerial leadership experience, including managing complex and challenging change initiatives in a multi-disciplinary arena.
- Experience of strategic development and understanding the effects of implementation/evaluation and review.
- Experience and understanding of the complexity of managing services across statutory and non-statutory boundaries.
- Experience of report writing and good presentation skills.
- Demonstrable experience of making significant judgements involving highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis and interpretation from a range of options
- Programme or complex project management experience
- Experience and confidence to represent the programme at local and national level. ,
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive understanding of Community Services and Care Closer to Home, local and national drivers. Extensive knowledge of working in integrated care teams.
- Knowledge of NHS financial management and of working in a multi-disciplinary environment to include aspects of – pricing, costing, budgeting and performance management.
- Experience of change management in complex situations.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on complex, sensitive or contentious matters in difficult situations, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- Ability to work with and build relationships with local, regional and national organisations.
- Highly developed analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear and concise manner.
- Ability to work at strategic and operational level on own initiative.
- Ability to manage complex workload under pressure and prioritise to meet deadlines
- Excellent problem solving, facilitation and negotiating skills.
- Able to establish effective working relationships and forge bonds with all relevant stakeholders.
- Ability to demonstrate competence in terms of: Drive for improvement Seizing the opportunity Team leadership Collaborative working Effective influencing Political astuteness Effective prioritisation of workload
Specialist Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of successfully undertaking a lead role in a project/ audit.
- Evidence of the successful application of a change management project.
- Able to analyse activity/ financial data
- Able to produce reports for Senior Management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Helen Chapman
- Job title
- Associate Nurse Director (Community)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07968 115572
- Additional information
Kelly Kafarski Assistant Director Home First (SCC)
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