About this role
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 of the job
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 Job responsibilities *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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)