Team Leader - Children's Therapy Services

We are looking for a team leader for our Children's therapy services. If you have proven leadership experience this is a fantastic opportunity and you will be supported by the current team leader.You will be responsible for the operational management and the effective and efficient delivery of the Children's Therapy Services, ensuring effective monitoring of budgets and agreed national or local performance objectives. The team consists of speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics and admin support, providing interventions for children and young people across Calderdale and South Kirklees., The Children's Therapy Team Leader will manage multi- professional staff within the Children's Therapy Services and will work in partnership with the Children's Therapy Services Manager and Head of Therapy Professions on the planning, development and continuous improvement of patient care processes. Build appropriate working relationships with colleagues in services and Divisions within the local health, education and social care economy with whom services integrate and interact, and with appropriate external bodies for the fulfilment of particular service issues, this will include commissioners and wider stakeholders.

To play a lead role in the modernisation and redesign of clinical services, and support the Children's Therapy Services Manager and Head of Therapy Professions in interpreting and delivering local and national strategy into practice.

To be an excellent communicator, who confidently and efficiently manages a wide variety of situations, challenging and resolving problems relating to patient care/ personnel and resource issues in a timely manner.

Provide effective professional and managerial leadership to the teams.

Be involved in/lead on patient safety and quality initiatives for the Division.

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.