Henshaws Specialist College - ​Head of Clinical & Allied Health Professionals

Head of Clinical & Allied Health Professionals

Harrogate

Closing date: Friday, 3rd Mar 2023

Salary: £22.71per hour / £44,874.96 per annum
Hours per week: 38
Weeks per year: 52
Contract: Permanent
Annual Leave: 25 days plus 10 days bank holiday (pro-rata for term-time/part-time)
DBS: Enhanced with Child & Adult barring (Paid for by Henshaws)

Benefits: Enhanced sick pay and annual leave, 4 days full pay emergency domestic leave per year, free eye test vouchers, long service awards, access to free of charge independent counselling service, opportunity to buy additional annual leave

Henshaws is a northern charity supporting people living with sight loss and a range of other disabilities to go beyond expectations.

We believe that, wherever they are, everyone has the right to an independent and fulfilling life. Our support, advice and training enables people and their families to build skills, develop confidence, help each other and look forward to a more positive future.

We are now looking to appoint a Head of Clinical and AHP to join our team, based at the college. The successful candidate will be reporting to the Deputy Director for Care, Clinical and Assessments will provide direction and strong, professional leadership to our clinical and allied health professionals (AHPs) on site.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Lead and develop the clinical and therapy provision at Henshaws College ensuring the complex nature of the service is always safe and effective.
• Oversee a comprehensive, innovative, and dynamic multi-disciplinary therapy service to meet the needs of students.
• Ensure that students are receiving the appropriate level of intervention and therapy treatments for people with a range of complex needs, including but not limited to; physical disabilities, sensory impairment, learning difficulties, autism and profound multiple learning difficulties (PMLD)
• To uphold Henshaws values of Informed, Sharing, Proactive, Inspiring, Compassionate and Empowering.

The successful candidate will be a registered nurse with a current NMC PIN number, they will be an experienced team manager with experience in leading a clinical service and being held accountable for its delivery. Understanding of the Essential Standards of Quality and Safety/CQC is essential as is experience of leading on quality assurance to ensure that the service is operating according to all relevant policy, strategy or regulation.

Please visit our website to apply henshaws.org.uk

Closing date: Friday 3rd March – 12noon

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Henshaws Society for Blind People aims to employ a diverse workforce and is committed to equality of employment and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

Henshaws is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults. It is a criminal offence for people barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group e.g. vulnerable adults, children or both. An Enhanced DBS with barring and reference checks will be sought from the successful candidate.

Henshaws reserves the right to check social media accounts of all successful applicants. For more information, please contact the HR department on 01423 814510.

Registered Charity No: 221888

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