Therapies Clinical Specialist Manager

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Join Our Team as a Therapies Clinical Specialist Manager - Lead, Innovate, and Transform NHS Therapy Services

We are seeking a Clinical Specialist Manager to take charge of our highly skilled therapy teams, including Adult Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Sarcoma, London Spinal Cord Injury Centre (LSCIC) Therapy, Dietetics and Speech and Language Therapy. This is a pivotal role in driving service excellence, strategic development, and operational efficiency across multiple specialist areas.

Why Join Us?

As a key member of the Therapies Directorate senior leadership team, you will have the unique opportunity to lead and shape therapy services in one of the NHS's most renowned trusts. Your leadership will directly influence patient outcomes, workforce development, and innovative service transformation, ensuring that our therapy services remain at the forefront of clinical excellence.

Main duties of the job

What You'll Do

• Lead & Inspire: Provide strategic leadership and operational management to specialist therapy teams, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Service Development & Transformation: Drive the evolution of therapy services.
• Clinical Governance & Quality Assurance: Oversee clinical governance, incident management, and health & safety, ensuring high standards of patient care and risk management.
• People Management: Support, mentor, and develop a team of therapy professionals, ensuring their skills and knowledge meet evolving service demands.
• Financial & Resource Management: Manage budgets and ensure efficient allocation of resources, driving cost-effective, high-quality service delivery.

Who We're Looking For

We need a proactive and experienced leader with:

• A proven track record in clinical service management within the NHS or a related healthcare setting.
• Strong leadership, strategic thinking, and operational planning skills.
• Experience in budget management, clinical governance, and service transformation.
• The ability to motivate and develop a diverse team, fostering a positive and inclusive working environment to deliver outstanding patient experience.

You will have a chance to make a real difference in patient care and the future of therapy services.

If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge, please apply.

About us

At the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), we are committed to achieving the best staff experience in the NHS. In the 2023 NHS Staff Survey, we proudly:

• Scored above the national average for the People Promises: "We are recognised and rewarded," "We are always learning," "We work flexibly," "We are a team," and for staff engagement.
• Ranked among all Trusts in North and Central London for all People Promises and themes.
• Ranked among all Acute Specialist Trusts for "We work flexibly."

At RNOH, we're committed to being actively anti-discriminatory and actively inclusive. We recognise our brilliant people do brilliant work, and we offer rewarding careers, no matter what their background.

Joining our organisation means enjoying a wide range of staff benefits, including:

• 24/7 access to wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
• A Rewards & Recognition platform, offering opportunities to thank colleagues, send gifts, and access exclusive discounts.
• A dedicated Staff Wellbeing Hub, providing a space to relax and recharge away from the work environment.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for transport (season ticket loans, car and bike), electrical goods, and childcare.

At RNOH, we are more than a workplace we are committed to patients, to excellence and the wellbeing of our staff.

Job responsibilities

The post has direct management responsibility for a number of specialist clinical teams including Adult Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Sarcoma, London Spinal Cord Injury Centre (LSCIC) therapy, Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy (provided via SLAs) and Social work. The post holder will work within and represent the Trust in the wider regional AHP community. The post holder will be part of creating a clear vision within the Trust and play a critical role in establishing the role of therapists as an integral part of the specialist orthopaedic services provided by the Trust. The post holder is responsible for ensuring that the therapy services within their teams deliver high quality patient outcomes and represent good value for money.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Professional qualifications in one of the relevant AHP disciplines.
• Health Professions Council (HPC) registration.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Post graduate qualifications in management skills or other relevant area.
• Master's degree in management.

Experience

• Substantial post registration experience, including considerable experience at Band 8a level (or equivalent) with proven management/team leadership experience.
• Considerable experience in working in both inpatient and outpatient healthcare environment.
• Considerable experience in operational and people management.
• Experience in budgetary management.
• Experience in working alone, using self management time and using excellent organisational skills.
• Evidence of having supervised senior qualified therapy staff.
• Experience in managing a team, including supervision and appraisal.
• Experience and knowledge of managing a service over multiple clinical areas.
• Active involvement in clinical audit and policy/guideline implementation.
• Experience of teaching unidisciplinary/multidisciplinary groups.
• Experience in service development and strategic planning activities.
• Experience in liaising with health education institutions.
• Experience of involvement in local and regional professional groups.

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrate a clear understanding of multidisciplinary/multi-professional issues and ability to work efficiently and effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent team building and team working skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate highly contentious information to large groups of staff and communicate issues and decisions to senior management staff.
• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to manage frequent interruptions of job tasks during the working day.
• Excellent leadership skills.
• A commitment to professional development of self and others.
• Demonstrate commitment to best practice and awareness of national standard and evidences.
• Demonstrate flexibility in approach to change in service needs.
• Demonstrate an understanding of NHS reforms and its impact on the services managed.
• Ability to frequently cope with working in a stressful and different environment and with intense concentration throughout the day.

Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge and application of current best practice within relevant clinical areas.
• Specialist knowledge and understanding of health and social care policy and legislation related to acute and community Trusts.
• Up to date knowledge of current political influences within the NHS and for AHPs in particular.
• Detailed knowledge of how AHPs work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a complex patient pathway.
• Level of knowledge of how to manage and set budgets.

Disposition and Attributes

• Excellent and emphatic communication at the highest level in a variety of settings.
• Able to present information, written and orally to the highest level.
• Able to inspire and lead clinicians and colleagues.

Responsibility for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• Demonstrable commitment to anti-discriminatory and inclusive behaviours and practices.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Job Details

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Therapies department, Stanmore Site (with travel to Bolsover Street)

£67,950 to £78,028 a year Per Annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

392-RNOH-1193

Job locations

Therapies department, Stanmore Site (with travel to Bolsover Street)