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Daniel Lethbridge

Crawley Down,West Sussex

Summary

Dynamic Physiotherapist with a background in Advanced Practice. Significant senior leadership and operational management experience across a range of health care sectors. Passionate about improvement and innovation in patient care and experience. Focused on ensuring patient and team involvement is key to service delivery innovation and sustainability. Driven to ensure equity of opportunity and access for our whole community. Aspiring to the highest standards in every opportunity and creating an environment for everyone to reach their potential.


Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Therapies

SASH
Redhill, Surrey
09.2021 - Current

• Responsible and accountable for the professional leadership, operational delivery and strategic management of a multi-professional portfolio of services with approximately 200 team members.

• Financially responsible for a £9 million budget, forming annual budget forecasts and identifying cost improvement measures.

• Manage external contracts and SLA's with partner organisations.

• Write and present business cases and reports for Executive team and board covering multi-year timeframes.

• Maintain compliance with KPI's and national standards

• Implement robust processes to meet performance, safety and quality standards

• Demand and capacity management to ensure effective use of resources

• Embed a culture that drives innovation.

• Responsible for ensuring robust governance and people management within the service

• Lead and contribute to workstreams across the system and with key stakeholders fostering a culture of collaboration and partnership working.

Trustee

Springboard Project
02.2020 - Current

· Board member for Springboard Project (Horsham)

· Responsible for the Governance, strategy and administration of the charity

· Ensure that the charity is run for the benefit of the service users

· Ensure compliance with Charity law requirements

· Embed a culture of service user involvement in the undertakings of the Charity

Clinical Operations Lead

SCFT (Sussex MSK Partnership)
06.2019 - 09.2021

· Operational delivery of the service including staff management, governance, safety and risk management.

· Manage performance and data analysis

· Demand and capacity management and forecasting

· Lead on service development and transformation

· Provide services within budgetary framework

· Collaborative working with partner organisations and key stakeholders

Pathway Lead - Physiotherapy

SCFT (Sussex MSK Partnership)
04.2016 - 06.2019

• Operational management and professional leadership of Physiotherapy and Osteopathy team

• Strategic evaluation and development of the service

• Responsible budget holder

• Clinical caseload of complex and highly complex patients

• Ensuring the delivery of excellence and adherence to national standards and KPIs

• Collaboration and co-production with key stakeholders and service users

Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Knee

Sussex MSK Partnership
02.2015 - 04.2016

· Assessment and management of highly complex patients

· Arrange diagnostic investigations and onward referrals as required

· To be responsible for the supervision, mentoring and coaching of other clinicians

· To empower patients in taking an active role in their own journey utilising shared decision making and personalised care principles.

· Lead on audit and service development

Education

PG cert. - Business Administration

University of Brighton
Brighton
2020 - 2022

BSc (hons) - Physiotherapy

University of Brighton
Brighton
1999 - 2002

Skills

  • Compassionate, dynamic leader
  • Astute financial management
  • Highly developed communication skills
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Analytical
  • Critical thinker and problem solver
  • Relationship building and influencing others

Recent CPD

· Leading Sussex 2024 – 2 day systems leadership workshop – London South Bank University

· Operational Leaders Development Programme 2024/25 – NHS Elect/SASH

· Lean for Leaders 2023 – Kaizen Promotion Office

· Senior Leaders Coaching 2022 – Virginia Mason Institute

Timeline

Head of Therapies

SASH
09.2021 - Current

Trustee

Springboard Project
02.2020 - Current

Clinical Operations Lead

SCFT (Sussex MSK Partnership)
06.2019 - 09.2021

Pathway Lead - Physiotherapy

SCFT (Sussex MSK Partnership)
04.2016 - 06.2019

Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Knee

Sussex MSK Partnership
02.2015 - 04.2016

PG cert. - Business Administration

University of Brighton
2020 - 2022

BSc (hons) - Physiotherapy

University of Brighton
1999 - 2002
Daniel Lethbridge