Senior AHP Clinical Lead

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and tenacious individual to join our community rehabilitation pathway. It is recognised that our AHP professionals provide invaluable input and this role provides opportunity for us to develop this offer, support existing services, and be involved in co-producing change to innovate and transform.

The Senior Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) Clinical Lead will be accountable for the AHP input within Community Rehabilitation pathway providing frontline clinical leadership, professional AHP leadership and support to staff on clinical standards and AHP practice, ensuring a focus on patient-centred care, and outcomes. In addition, this role will support patient flow through Community Hospitals and effective discharge outcomes. This post is a pivotal part of both the AHP leadership team and the pathway senior management team.

The postholder is expected to contribute fully to effective partnership working with other organisations to improve the integrated health and social care offer to the local community. They will be a key member of the transfer of care hub and provide leadership and management to the patient flow team.

This role will contribute appropriately to Trust wide AHP and directorate wide tasks/ projects with the senior leadership team and corporate colleagues.

The Senior Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) Clinical Lead will be accountable forthe

AHP input within the community rehabilitation pathway, providing professional AHP leadership and support to staffon clinical standards and AHP practice, ensuring a focus on patient-centered care, and outcomes. This post is apivotal part of both the AHP leadership team andthe pathway senior management team. Key to this role is ensuring the development of effective patient flow across the community hospitals and wider system working to ensure the most effective and timely pathway for rehabilitation and onward care.

The postholder is expected to contribute fully to effective partnershipworking with other organisations to improve the integrated health and social care offer to the local community.

The post holder must develop a cultureof clinical improvement, leading by example and empowering AHPs to improve outcomes for patients in community rehabilitation services. Thismeansbeing knownand visible to staff, visiting wards/teams/services regularly, being familiar with the patients, their needs and the challenges faced by our workforce.

It is putting person centered, evidence-based practice at each stage of the care pathway.

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