There is an exciting opportunity to join the Specialist Children's and Young People's Services sub directorate as the Head of Bexley Children's Therapy Services. The successful post holder will provide strategic and operational leadership to the Children's Therapy Services in Bexley Borough, to meet the needs of children, young people and families and staff. The Therapy Services include Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy. The post holder will ensure continued and co-ordinated service delivery and development, including high quality evidence based and integrated approaches.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will manage the Therapy budgets and be responsible for management of external contracts. This includes the non-NHS budget for services provided to other agencies, and the post holder will represent the service at a Trust / multi-agency level.

The post holder will hold the responsibility for clinical governance across the Therapy Services including audit, research and development initiatives. This will include devising service plans with the Therapy Leads, taking into account service transformation, user views and leading on the development of professional polices / standards, implementing these according to service needs.

The post holder will be responsible for line managing the Service Leads and will work with support from the Head of Profession.

Clinically, the post holder will provide Highly Specialist assessment, diagnosis and care planning with Children and Young People in their specialist area, and support parents, clients and other professionals in all issues related to client management.

About us

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Acorns, Queen Marys Hospital

Frognal avenue

Sidcup

DA14 6LT

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