Job Description

We are delighted to be recruiting for a unique opportunity for an experienced professional to provide strategic and operational leadership to our Children's Therapy Services which currently contains a portfolio of:



Occupational Therapy

Physiotherapy

Speech and Language Therapy

Dietetics



The successful applicant will ensure continued and co-ordinated service delivery and development, including high quality evidence based and integrated approaches.



To ensure that specialist children's therapy services are provided according to best practice, in partnership with service users and partner agencies, working as part of a multi-agency system.



To ensure that services are delivered in accordance with national and local policies, priorities and regulatory frameworks and meets all performance targets. To oversee that reporting requirements to commissioners are met.



To provide leadership and management to the service and lead a senior team comprising of team managers and senior clinicians. To operate as a member of the operational leadership team and as part of the Trust senior manager out of hours on-call duty system.



Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.



We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.



Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:



We're Kind



We're Fair



We Listen



We Care

The post holder will:

Provide overall management of their allocated services Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of care pathways through the service including triage, assessment, treatment, and discharge of children and young people and their families Ensure the service is delivered in accordance with national and local policies, priorities and regulatory frameworks and meets all performance targets. Work in partnership with Heads of Profession and other clinical leads, to maintain a culture within the service of excellence in clinical standards and safety. Operate as a leader within the multi-agency network of children's services, to ensure the service is delivered as part of an integrated system to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people. * Ensure the service is delivered to meet key performance targets.