Job overview

Are you an experienced and ambitious Allied Health Professional with a passion for inpatient care? This is your chance to step into a pivotal role at the RUH Bath, where you’ll lead our inpatient Therapy Service, ensuring excellent patient outcomes and driving forward a culture of continuous improvement.

In this role, you will:

• Provide dynamic leadership in both clinical and managerial aspects of the inpatient service, working to improve responsiveness, patient outcomes and enhance digital processes.
• Retain a specialist caseload, dedicating 20% of your time to complex clinical work, while also developing innovative pathways that improve patient outcomes.
• Drive performance by fostering a collaborative culture, benchmarking service quality to national standards, and leading quality improvement initiatives.
• Develop workforce capability by empowering your team, ensuring high morale, and cultivating a strong, patient-centered environment.

As Deputy to the Head of Therapies for Inpatients, you’ll play a key role in strategic decision-making, service innovation  and quality improvement. If you’re a confident communicator, strategic thinker, and skilled clinician ready to shape the future of inpatient therapy services, this is the job for you.

Main duties of the job

As Deputy Head of Therapies for Inpatients, your primary duty will be to oversee the day-to-day clinical and managerial operations of Adult Therapy Inpatient services. This includes coordinating caseloads, reallocating work as needed, and ensuring adherence to patient safety protocols, quality standards, and wait times. You will manage and coach Team Leads, handling staff performance, development, and health and safety requirements.

A crucial aspect of the role is to lead service innovation and continuous improvement. You will guide the team in developing pathways and implementing digital solutions, such as the digitisation of referral processes, to streamline care. You’ll also maintain a clinical caseload for around 20% of your time, and work with multi-professional teams to deliver integrated, evidence-based care.

In addition, you’ll support financial performance by optimising resource allocation, minimising costs, and contributing to budget management. You will also have a key role in clinical governance, developing quality initiatives, managing risk, investigating complaints, and ensuring compliance with national guidelines. The role requires strong communication skills to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders, promote service improvements, and maintain collaborative relationships across departments, contributing to the Trust’s wider strategic goals.

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country. 

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.