Job summary
Are you passionate about delivering outstanding practice placement experiences for therapy students and supporting the future AHP workforce?

Following a successful business case, we are delighted to expand our service offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced, innovative clinician and educator to join our supportive, and forward-thinking Therapy Practice Placement Team.

Working alongside a fellow Therapy Practice Placement Manager, you will provide leadership, supervision, teaching and support to learners and educators across therapy professions. While applications are welcomed from all therapy backgrounds, a good understanding and experience of supporting physiotherapy placements would be beneficial.

You will collaborate with practice partners and AHP colleagues across UHB and the integrated care system enhancing placement quality and driving key initiatives, including placement capacity. Also linking with the UHB School of Nursing, AHPs and Midwifery supports a cohesive approach to practice education.

The therapy placement team works flexibly across UHB sites ensuring pre-registration learners experience high-quality practice-based learning opportunities. This post will have a main base at Queen Elizabeth and Good Hope Hospital sites, with flexibility to provide cross-site cover and expertise as required on all UHB sites.

This role offers a rewarding opportunity to develop your leadership and education skills while making a tangible impact on the future AHP workforce.

Main duties of the job
You will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership to develop and support the delivery of outstanding practice-based learning experiences for therapy learners across UHB. You will support a positive culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and educator/learner wellbeing.

Key responsibilities include monitoring and auditing placement quality against professional and regulatory standards; supporting, training and advising practice educators; and addressing placement, learner or educator concerns to maintain safe learning environments. You will contribute to placement capacity through service improvement, collaborative working and the development of innovative placement models, including delivering your own placements.

You will provide expert educational leadership, deliver teaching and training programmes, support student assessment processes, and act as a key liaison between clinical services and Higher Education Institutions. You will represent the Trust at local, regional and national forums, contribute to curriculum development and workforce initiatives, and support the implementation of national recommendations relating to clinical education and workforce planning

Working as part of the wider Therapy Practice Placement Team, you will also contribute to line management responsibilities, service development, research activity, quality improvement projects, team leadership and workforce planning, helping to shape the future Allied Health Professional workforce

About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• BSc or Preregistration MSc in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Speech and Language or Podiatry or equivalent
• HCPC Registration
• PGCert Clinical Education or equivalent (or prepared to work towards)

Desirable

• Leadership training
• Teaching qualification or prepared to work towards such

Experience

• Evidence of experience as a registered practitioner at a senior level in relevant clinical speciality
• Knowledge and understanding of HCPC standards
• Working with and mentoring/assessing students
• Evidence of developing new initiatives
• Clear evidence of continuous professional development
• Broad knowledge and experience of undergraduate healthcare education delivery in the NHS and relationships with HEI providers
• Understands the principles of teaching and learning in a clinical environment, including practice assessment
• Understands current national standards

Desirable

• Knowledge of research methodologies
• Knowledge of managing/co-ordinating clinical placements
• Knowledge and understanding of undergraduate curriculum for healthcare students

Additional Criteria

• Knowledge of research methodologies
• Knowledge of managing/co-ordinating clinical placements
• Knowledge and understanding of undergraduate curriculum for healthcare students
• Communicating effectively in complex organisational environments
• Managing and completing projects
• Networking and establishing good working relationships
• Facilitating and supporting others
• Organising and prioritising workload
• Experience or willingness to learn IT skills
• Assessment skills
• Ability to challenge
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to influence others
• Ability to work flexibly to support
• Ability to attend cross site and external meeting sites

Desirable

• Preparing and writing reports
• Making recommendations based on objective analysis and intellectual inquiry i.e. audit
• UK Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy/Dietetic/Speech& Language/Podiatry experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship: 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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.