Therapy Lead - LWH Dietetics

Therapy Lead - Liverpool Women's Hospital Dietetics - Band 8a Dietitian
Base: Liverpool Women's Hospital

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Dietitian to join Liverpool Women's Hospital (LWH) as Therapy Lead for Dietetics. This Band 8a role will provide visible clinical and operational leadership for dietetic services, ensuring safe, effective, person-centred care and supporting the delivery of high-quality services. The role is based at LWH, with professional leadership, support and collaboration through the wider Therapies Leadership Team based at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.

Working closely with maternity, diabetes, oncology and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will support clinical and operational service delivery and development across inpatient and outpatient pathways, helping to improve outcomes and experiences for women, babies and families. You will work collaboratively with clinical teams, senior leaders and external partners to support integrated, responsive and evidence-based care.

The post holder will lead the dietetic team, including line management, recruitment and retention, appraisal, supervision, workforce planning and staff development.

Applicants must have current HCPC registration as a Dietitian, significant relevant post-registration experience, evidence of leadership development, and experience of managing clinical quality, people, budgets, performance and service improvement.

Main duties of the job
You will demonstrate a coaching and compassionate leadership style, enabling staff engagement, professional development and delivery of high-performing services aligned to Trust values.

Quality and safety are central to the role. You will contribute to clinical governance, risk management, audit, patient experience, safeguarding and learning from complaints and incidents. You will use data, evidence and quality indicators to inform decisions, monitor performance, develop action plans and lead improvements in practice, pathways and service delivery.

You will also contribute to service planning, business cases, financial management and delivery of cost-effective services, working with colleagues to identify opportunities for innovation and transformation.

Please refer to JD attached for further details.

About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Job responsibilities
As part of the Therapies Leadership Team, you will work alongside other Therapy Leads, Professional Leads and Team Leads, with support from the Head Therapist and wider Senior Leadership Team.

You will help ensure operational plans and performance are closely managed, proactively identifying solutions to operational issues in line with Trust objectives, quality standards and available resources.

You will demonstrate compassionate, collaborative and coaching-based leadership, supporting staff engagement, development and empowerment across a diverse workforce.

You will contribute to strategic direction, policy implementation and service improvement within the Care Group, ensuring effective two-way communication between senior leaders and clinical teams.

You will have line management responsibility for Band 7 clinical AHPs and will support the development of high-performing, values-led teams.

Qualifications
Essential

• First level professional registration NMC/HCPC
• Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level or equivalent
• Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development, working towards masters
• Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
• Evidence of Leadership development

Experience
Essential

• Demonstrable extensive experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls.
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain high standards of care and team management over a sustained period.

Knowledge
Essential

• Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally assess and describe impact on AHPs/clinical professional service.
• Knowledge and understanding of the NHS policy and regulatory policy
• Understanding and appreciation of diversity
• Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
• Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy

Skills
Essential

• Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
• A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead and implement quality improvement strategies.
• Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
• Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans.
• Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
• Competently implement business plans, business cases and project plans in order to deliver the Clinical Service Strategy for the area.
• Coordinate area day to day clinical operational activity to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
• Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
• IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems.
• Imaginative and innovative in developing new ways of working in meeting patient care and service needs
• Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
• Deal with uncertainty in a political environment
• Work in an environment with frequent interruptions, and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day

Desirable

• Demonstrate competent project management skills

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).