Ahp Workforce And Education Lead - Band 8A

Are you an Allied Health Professional (AHP), looking to expand your leadership skills?
Are you passionate about the great work AHPs deliver and want to lead on supporting growing the workforce? Come and join a compassionate, inclusive AHP team at Oxleas
This post will lead on the highly complex strategic development and implementation of the Trust’s AHP workforce plan .
Working across the system, the post holder will work closely with existing internal structures including clinical groups, The Training and Development Department, Preceptorship team, AHP and AHP networks.
They will also engage with external organisations, including Health Education England (HEE) and the South East London AHP Faculty and our education/academic partner HEI’s.
This role will be instrumental in ensuring that AHP workforce recruitment and retention is optimal, and that staff at all levels receive ongoing professional development, enabling the provision of outstanding, evidence based patient care.
The post holder will plan and organise a range of complex events and activities to engage and develop the AHP professions as part of a long term business plan.
The post holder will lead the development of solutions for expanding AHP clinical placement capacity and achievement of the Fair Share model. The post holder will also support further programmes of work that contribute to the development of the AHP workforce across the Trust, including apprenticeships, support worker development and implementation of new roles to strengthen the AHP workforce .
The post holder will plan and organise a range of complex events and activities to engage and develop the AHP professions as part of a long term business plan.
The post holder will lead the development of solutions for expanding AHP clinical placement capacity and achievement of the Fair Share model. The post holder will also support further programmes of work that contribute to the development of the AHP workforce across the Trust, including apprenticeships, support worker development and implementation of new roles to strengthen the AHP workforce .
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
Education
To develop and lead the AHP clinical placement expansion implementation plan across the Trust in order to achieve and exceed targets, and use evaluation methods to evaluate the outcome of the programme work.
To understand and interpret complex and often contentious information in order to present real time information to senior manager, AHP leads and boards
Communicate with a wide range of external organisations using persuasive and motivational skills to progress work streams and support Oxleas’ objectives.
Coordinate highly complex clinical placement data collation and create reports for dissemination and formal presentations
Develop and oversee community of practice groups within the trust for special interest groups or skills for AHPs
To strengthen and build on training and Education opportunities with Health Education England (HEE), relevant to the needs of Oxleas’ AHPs.
To develop a framework/ business plan to support AHP ongoing education and development, and implement this within the Trust
Contribute to and influence The AHP Strategy surrounding workforce to ensure that Oxleas can be a leader of professional practice.
Initiate, organise, facilitate and participate in events such as workshops as identified by and in collaboration with AHP Team leads, HoPs or AHP Lead
Explore the need for, develop processes and address barriers to implementing new education and development programmes/ courses to improve AHP practice and Education across the Trust for AHPs
Formulate a process and lead on the plans for annual commissioning of post-registration education programmes for AHP staff from university partners via centrally-held HEE education contracts, ensuring best use of the Trust’s funding allocations and equity of access.
Ensure that national policies relating to AHP education are effectively translated into Trust guidance, guidelines, protocols and Education programmes using persuasive and motivational approaches to ensuring these are embedded in practice
Liaise with Heads of Profession and Trust Boards regarding highly sensitive and complex workforce information and be able to negotiate for positive outcomes for the AHP workforce
Evaluate the impact of complex education programmes, measuring their impact on the trust and clinical performance to continuously improving the quality of programmes.
Negotiate and develop a business plan to establish sustainable in-house CPD opportunities for qualified and nonqualified AHP staff in collaboration with the Trust Lead AHP.
Use critical analysis and evaluation skills to insure best use of finances in providing optimal learning outcomes and value for money.
To promote equality of access to training and development for all staff in line with the Trusts Strategy on Building a Fairer Oxleas.
Workforce
Support the introduction of complex new roles, inclusive of but not limited to AHP Apprenticeships; New Support staff roles and Advanced Clinical Practitioners. The post holder will also analyse complex information to critically evaluate the impact of these roles and inform Senior Leads of the findings .
Collaborate with AHP Preceptorship Leads to expand and improve the Band 5 workforce development programme and improve retention and career progression.
Lead and expand the implementation of the AHP support workforce development framework and use expert motivational skills to engage support staff in practice development
Demonstrate highly specialist skills in negotiating for results within projects and motivating positive change in all areas of work.
Lead the development of effective short and long-term AHP workforce planning through timely access to accurate AHP workforce supply and demand, data and intelligence.
Support the recruitment process of AHPs where required using in depth knowledge and complex data to inform and advise senior managers regarding future planning.
Develop and lead the programme of continued growth of band 5 posts across AHP Professions.
Lead on any workforce audits or quality improvement and interpret complex data to inform and negotiate the direction of travel. Communicate / present this information to trust leads to influence positive workforce plans.
Develop and promote initiatives that embed equality, diversity and inclusion into workforce plans, embedding the Trust as an Anchor Institution.
Work with placement and preceptorship leads to reduce AHP student attrition and improve retention of students and new graduates.
Lead on management of AHP Return to Practice applications in collaboration with Heads of Profession.
Create timeframe and delivery plan to recruit into posts which have traditionally been hard to recruit and liaise with senior managers leads to negotiate change to roles as required.
Work with Trust and service leads to maximise access routes into apprenticeship training through to enhanced, advanced and consultant level practice. Identify barriers to doing so and formulate joint plans to address these.
Provide comprehensive reports into AHP Board and Therapies executive Committee regarding the AHP Workforce agenda and targets.
Support the Trust Lead AHP and Therapies Director to co-ordinate monthly workforce reports.
Deputise for Trust Lead AHP and represent the Trust in both internal and external meetings regarding workforce.
Clinical
If you are employed in an area of work which requires membership of a professional body in order to practice, it is a condition precedent of your employment to maintain membership of such a professional body. It is also your responsibility to comply with the relevant body’s code of practice.
Demonstrate the ability to reflect on, and respect profession specific differences and escalate any unethical or unprofessional practices to the relevant AHP professional lead.
To analyse and interpret highly complex and sensitive information relevant to field of work and practice within own clinical boundaries.
To show expert knowledge and skills as a leader and be able to demonstrate these skills through relevant qualification and work based evidence.
Comply with the AHP Professional Body Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and HCPC standards for registration.
Adhere to Trust policies, procedures and guidelines.
Adhere to any other relevant local and national policies and guidelines.
Research
Implement highly effective measures and detailed data analysis so that it is possible to measure the effectiveness of projects and critically appraise outcomes.
Review and reflect on own practice and performance through effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal.
Write highly complex reports often containing sensitive or contentious information as necessary to support, evidence and seek approval for past and future work streams.
Use audit processes to measure impact of training and development implemented and feed back to the TEC, AHPB or HEE.
Communication
Work collaboratively with AHP Heads of Profession, senior managers and external agencies to address Trust workstreams and priority areas of work. This will often require expert negotiation and persuasion skills to gain optimal outcomes for the Trust.
Presents complex and sensitive information to senior managers, Trust leads and external bodies in clear format and able to influence positive change based on recommendations.
Link with Trust and regional lead for Apprenticeships
Liaise and collaborate with other workforce leads in South East London ICS.
Take direction and seek advice from a wide range of professionals including The Trust Lead AHP, Heads of Professions and Directorate Lead AHPs in relation to successful delivery of workstreams.
Collaborate with Trust workforce leads across nursing and psychological therapies as well as Director of People.
Liaise both in person and remotely with all registered and non-registered AHP staff to deliver the identified workstream.