Chief Allied Health Professional (XR12)
| Posting date: | 30 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £109,179.00 to £125,637.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109179.00 - £125637.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 February 2026 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9298-TEX-0090 |
Summary
The post holder will ultimately be accountable for all Allied Health Professional Therapists (AHPs) and Therapy Support Staff within the Trust and will directly manage the Head of therapies and general manager for therapy services. This will include services within Dietetics and Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Podiatry. The postholder will be accountable for the adult clinical health psychologists who will professionally report to the Chief Medical Officer. The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing standards across Therapy Services within the Trust which support professional leadership, competence, capacity and standards of conduct. The post holder will be responsible for leading on and delivering success across a number of key programmes and pathways across the CSUs. These programmes will be essential in ensuring that LTHT can deliver its primary objectives and targets over the years and will encompass a range of topics including productivity and efficiency, transformation, clinical effectiveness, quality and workforce succession planning. Support the clinical and managerial leadership of the hospital, delivering a range of outcomes, ensuring that fundamental and underlying activities to organisational success are achieved. To lead with other members of the triumvirate and other CSUs and corporate management teams to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services to clinical users and patients. Working with senior management, to define and implement new ways of working to maximise the benefits of the new structure and play a leading role in the Trust transformation process to deliver Trust gains in cost and clinical effectiveness and efficiency.