Head of Children's Therapy Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated individual to lead Children's Therapies across acute and community services at St George's Hospital. The post holder will join a well-established, children's directorate, which is rated as Outstanding by the CQC. The successful post holder will work strategically with the management team at St George's Hospital, to provide coordinated services in St George's Hospital and in the community across Wandsworth. In addition, the postholder will work closely with colleagues in Wandsworth Local Authority and the South West London Integrated Car Board to ensure that excellent, effective services are provided to meet the needs of the local population. Children's Therapies provides the following services:

• In-patient services to PICU, paediatric step down unit, three paediatric wards (covering surgery, medicine, oncology and infectious diseases), a day unit, neonatal level 3 unit and special care baby unit
• Specialist outpatient services for a range of dietetic specialisms, respiratory physiotherapy, trauma and orthopaedic specialist physiotherapy, videoflurosopy swallow studies
• Community therapy services across community clinics, children's centres, early years settings, and mainstream schools in Wandsworth
• Therapy services to two special schools
• Children's Social Services Occupational Therapy Services in Wandsworth, Post holder will be responsible for managing, leading, planning, delivery, development and improvement of Therapy services for children and families. Full details of roles and responsibilities can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. A brief summary is included below:
• Responsible for the delivery of high quality cost effective services which are based on best practice and which will contribute to reducing health inequalities within Wandsworth.
• Ensuring services meet the relevant Care Quality Commission standards and contribute towards provision of evidence for assessment for this and for SEND Inspections
• Participate in the Trusts competency framework to ensure that all staff are made aware of, assessed and supported against the core competencies for their grade.
• Management and leadership for 130-140wte staff across children's therapies.
• Total budgetary responsibility in excess of £5m, with responsibility for managing the budget, submitting cost pressures and contributing to cost reduction programmes.
  
  St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.