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Hours: Full time
Salary: Competitive
AfC Job No: 3083
Closing date: 03/09/2023 

At Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT), they are committed to developing a consistent, high performing and sustainable workforce. AT LTHT their Occupational Health service is a valued resource which helps to ensure that LTHT provide the support their staff need.
Their numbers are significant - LTHT are a team of over 23,000 colleagues split across a number of hospital sites. They use a personalised people management approach to ensure they meet their needs. The Occupational Health department now looks to recruit a new head of service that can ensure the health and wellbeing of their people. Supported by a large team, including three Occupational Physicians and departmental colleagues you will encourage, promote and deliver the OH service, while setting the long term strategy for the team. Professionally you will work to implement strategic plans for a progressive and responsive service across the Trust. Their priority continues to be a focused, safe, efficient and effective service.

Main duties of the job: It takes an exceptional leader to engage and inspire staff to ensure that the very best practices are introduced and implemented. Your extensive experience in Occupational Health services, along with your leadership, clinical skills and understanding of Clinical Governance and Quality will enable you to lead and support the team. As Head of Service, you will be the inspiration for their Occupational Health team, building a competent, multi disciplinary team to respond to the needs of LTHT staff. You will be approachable, responsive and encouraging of colleagues who seek your professional input. You will have a compassionate leadership style, while ensuring that your team are empowered to deliver to the highest standards.

Overview of the organisation: Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in Europe, with access to leading clinical expertise and medical technology. LTHT care for people from all over the country as well as the 780,000 residents of Leeds itself. The Trust has a budget of £1.1 billion. Their 23,000 staff ensure that every year LTHT see and treat over 1,500,000 people in their 2,000 beds or out-patient settings, comprising 100,000 day cases, 125,000 in-patients, 260,000 A&E visits and 1,050,000 out-patient appointments. LTHT operate from 7 hospitals on 5 sites all linked by the same vision, philosophy and culture to be the best for specialist and integrated care. LTHT's vision is based on The Leeds Way, which is a clear statement of who LTHT are and what they believe, founded on values of working that were put forward by their own staff.

The successful candidate's values are to be:
- Patient-centred
- Fair
- Collaborative
- Accountable
- Empowered

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to their process of redeploying 'at risk' members of their existing workforce to new roles. As such, all their job adverts are subject to this policy and they reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with them while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions

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To apply for this role or more information, please contact; anna.edgren-davies@nhs.net

Closing Date: 2023-09-03 00:00:00