Therapy Lead - LWH DieteticsNHS
Job summary
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.
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Job description
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.
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.
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