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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 7 Therapy Unit Manager
West Midlands On-site 5-10 yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 5,527 employees£49k – £57k / year
Clinical LeadershipTeam ManagementPatient CareDischarge PlanningClinical Governance
Requirements
Candidates must be registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council or HCPC and have considerable experience in a deputy leadership position within an NHS organization. A postgraduate qualification in leadership or management is desirable.
Job Description
Job Summary
You will be supported by a Flow Coordinator and led by Deputy Director of Nursing Ursula Hare and Matron Juliet Read--senior leaders who are clinically engaged, hands on, and invested in your success. The clinical and professional support infrastructure is already in place.
This is an open invitation to Nursing and AHP professionals alike. Whether your background is in nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or another registered AHP profession, your clinical expertise and professional perspective are genuinely valued here. What unites our ideal candidate is not a specific registration, but a shared commitment to outstanding patient care, collaborative working, and the drive to lead a multidisciplinary team with confidence and compassion.
The support of Ursula and Juliet means you will never lead alone. You will be empowered, coached, and championed in this post. Whatever your profession, this is your opportunity to raise the bar on quality and patient experience within a team that will back you every step of the way--we want to hear from you.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
As Therapy Unit Manager, you will hold 24 hour operational accountability for the Elmdon Unit, providing visible, values led clinical leadership to a skilled multidisciplinary team of administrative staff, HCAs, and registered professionals. Quality and continuous improvement sit at the heart of this role. You will set, monitor, and uphold standards of care, lead on clinical governance and audit cycles, and embed a culture of reflective practice--ensuring learning from incidents, patient feedback, and data translates into sustainable improvements in the care we deliver every day.
As one of 2.6 WTE Band 7 roles, you will coordinate safe patient flow across the three wards, championing effective discharge planning and smooth transitions back to the community or home. Working closely with Matron Juliet Read and the wider senior leadership team, you will be supported both clinically and strategically to lead with confidence, developing your team through supervision, appraisal, and a genuine commitment to staff wellbeing and capability.
This role is suited to someone who holds themselves and their team to the highest professional standards, understands that great leadership means being present and accountable, and is bold enough to drive improvement--even when it is challenging.
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.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
Nursing & Midwifery Council Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist
Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post registration / post graduate specialist training, experience and or short courses /CPD or equivalent relevant to the practice setting / role.
Desirable
Post graduate qualification in leadership / management
Experience
Essential
Considerable experience working as a Band 6 (or equivalent) in an NHS Provider organisation in a deputy leadership position with responsibility for staff supervision/ deployment.
Demonstrable ability / experience in working in a multi professional approach to health care delivery and can demonstrate appreciation for complexities of patient care across primary /secondary and voluntary care settings.
Demonstrable knowledge of complex discharge assessment process and hospital and community support practice associated with the NHS.
Experience in the supervision, mentoring and assessment of learners and junior staff. NMC registered post holders must be practice assessors,
Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with clinical service.
Experience in leading and managing teams working in a health / care relating practice setting.
Experience in participating in the development and updating of policy and procedure.
Experience in supporting service change and improvement in a health and care related practice setting.
Well-developed understanding of Child / Adult Safeguarding and can apply knowledge to this role
Desirable
Experience of working in P2 -- facilities or reablement / rehabilitation or older adults practice settings
Experience in the recruitment and selection of staff
Additional Criteria
Essential
Can manage time effectively, priorities own workload and that of others and work under pressure to agreed standards of care.
Able to work effectively with a variety of people to ensure timely patient care and treatment as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Well-developed clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and can evidence this in relation to clinical practice.
Able to communicate complex and sensitive information to individuals and groups.
Strong well-developed influencing and negotiating skills.
Advanced facilitation and clinical leadership skills.
Excellent verbal communication / negotiating skills to include face to face and telephone
Ability to deal with conflicting demands.
Empathy with patients/relatives to record and follow up more complex queries e.g. patient complaints.
Self-motivated - able to work independently to prioritise and manage own workload.
Ability to use judgement and decision-making skills.
Ability to work effectively under pressure and to prioritise important tasks to tight.
deadlines whilst ensuring quality standards are maintained.
Tactful and able to build good working relations.
Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously.
Good IT skills ability to record information electronically.
Ability to construct, undertake clinical audit and analyse information to produce a report and recommendations.
Ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication and meetings
Desirable
Being able to work a flexible shirt pattern to cover 7 days per week as part of a rostered management / leadership team to agreed shift patterns
Ability to travel across all UHB sites and local system partners on external sites if required as part of the role
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.
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.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Juliet Read
juliet.read@uhb.nhs.uk
07917265689
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9015542
Job locations
Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
Attachments
Job Description
Band 7 JD PS.pdf – 485KB Opens in a new window
You will be supported by a Flow Coordinator and led by Deputy Director of Nursing Ursula Hare and Matron Juliet Read--senior leaders who are clinically engaged, hands on, and invested in your success. The clinical and professional support infrastructure is already in place.
This is an open invitation to Nursing and AHP professionals alike. Whether your background is in nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or another registered AHP profession, your clinical expertise and professional perspective are genuinely valued here. What unites our ideal candidate is not a specific registration, but a shared commitment to outstanding patient care, collaborative working, and the drive to lead a multidisciplinary team with confidence and compassion.
The support of Ursula and Juliet means you will never lead alone. You will be empowered, coached, and championed in this post. Whatever your profession, this is your opportunity to raise the bar on quality and patient experience within a team that will back you every step of the way--we want to hear from you.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
As Therapy Unit Manager, you will hold 24 hour operational accountability for the Elmdon Unit, providing visible, values led clinical leadership to a skilled multidisciplinary team of administrative staff, HCAs, and registered professionals. Quality and continuous improvement sit at the heart of this role. You will set, monitor, and uphold standards of care, lead on clinical governance and audit cycles, and embed a culture of reflective practice--ensuring learning from incidents, patient feedback, and data translates into sustainable improvements in the care we deliver every day.
As one of 2.6 WTE Band 7 roles, you will coordinate safe patient flow across the three wards, championing effective discharge planning and smooth transitions back to the community or home. Working closely with Matron Juliet Read and the wider senior leadership team, you will be supported both clinically and strategically to lead with confidence, developing your team through supervision, appraisal, and a genuine commitment to staff wellbeing and capability.
This role is suited to someone who holds themselves and their team to the highest professional standards, understands that great leadership means being present and accountable, and is bold enough to drive improvement--even when it is challenging.
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.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
Nursing & Midwifery Council Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist
Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post registration / post graduate specialist training, experience and or short courses /CPD or equivalent relevant to the practice setting / role.
Desirable
Post graduate qualification in leadership / management
Experience
Essential
Considerable experience working as a Band 6 (or equivalent) in an NHS Provider organisation in a deputy leadership position with responsibility for staff supervision/ deployment.
Demonstrable ability / experience in working in a multi professional approach to health care delivery and can demonstrate appreciation for complexities of patient care across primary /secondary and voluntary care settings.
Demonstrable knowledge of complex discharge assessment process and hospital and community support practice associated with the NHS.
Experience in the supervision, mentoring and assessment of learners and junior staff. NMC registered post holders must be practice assessors,
Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with clinical service.
Experience in leading and managing teams working in a health / care relating practice setting.
Experience in participating in the development and updating of policy and procedure.
Experience in supporting service change and improvement in a health and care related practice setting.
Well-developed understanding of Child / Adult Safeguarding and can apply knowledge to this role
Desirable
Experience of working in P2 -- facilities or reablement / rehabilitation or older adults practice settings
Experience in the recruitment and selection of staff
Additional Criteria
Essential
Can manage time effectively, priorities own workload and that of others and work under pressure to agreed standards of care.
Able to work effectively with a variety of people to ensure timely patient care and treatment as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Well-developed clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and can evidence this in relation to clinical practice.
Able to communicate complex and sensitive information to individuals and groups.
Strong well-developed influencing and negotiating skills.
Advanced facilitation and clinical leadership skills.
Excellent verbal communication / negotiating skills to include face to face and telephone
Ability to deal with conflicting demands.
Empathy with patients/relatives to record and follow up more complex queries e.g. patient complaints.
Self-motivated - able to work independently to prioritise and manage own workload.
Ability to use judgement and decision-making skills.
Ability to work effectively under pressure and to prioritise important tasks to tight.
deadlines whilst ensuring quality standards are maintained.
Tactful and able to build good working relations.
Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously.
Good IT skills ability to record information electronically.
Ability to construct, undertake clinical audit and analyse information to produce a report and recommendations.
Ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication and meetings
Desirable
Being able to work a flexible shirt pattern to cover 7 days per week as part of a rostered management / leadership team to agreed shift patterns
Ability to travel across all UHB sites and local system partners on external sites if required as part of the role
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.
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.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Juliet Read
juliet.read@uhb.nhs.uk
07917265689
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9015542
Job locations
Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
Attachments
Job Description
Band 7 JD PS.pdf – 485KB Opens in a new window
Education
Bachelor DegreePostgraduate Degree
Skills
Clinical LeadershipTeam ManagementPatient CareDischarge PlanningClinical GovernanceAudit CyclesReflective PracticeSupervisionMentoringCommunicationDecision-MakingTime ManagementNegotiationSafeguardingIT SkillsReport Writing
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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