Lead Allied Health Professional Workforce & Professional Education Manchester, England
Job description
BE THE AHP LEADER YOU WANT TO BE
Whatever you’re looking for in your next career move, you’ll find it all here for you as the Lead Allied Health Professional Workforce & Professional Education at Manchester University Foundation NHS Trust.
About you
A registered AHP you’ll be resilient and ambitious with a wealth of experience working as a senior AHP within an Acute Trust, ready and eager for this new challenge. With an empowering leadership style and evidence of effectively managing large scale change, you’ll be focused to drive and improve performance.
An innovative thinker with a passion for contributing to research, you’ll be a natural at successfully driving a learning coaching culture. You’ll also hold knowledge and experience in workforce transformation and quality improvement, patient safety, recruitment, temporary staffing, workforce development and new roles with experience of understanding workforce data and writing workforce reports.
Inevitably, you’ll carry a vibrant ‘can do’ attitude and mirror our values perfectly, with the skill and flexibility to operate at a fast pace and overcome challenges readily, positively and collaboratively. Outstanding communication, negotiation and influencing skills will be imperative to your success.
This is a truly exceptional opportunity to take your career to the next level. Working alongside a supportive senior leadership team and with the chance to really develop your own skills in the role.
We’re looking to appoint an established and talented senior Allied Health professional to lead on the delivery of the professional AHP agenda with a specific portfolio for workforce and professional educaiton.
Reporting directly to the Head of Nursing for Workforce, the role has a specific leadership and management responsibility; ensuring systems are in place to monitor and continuously improve standards through developing our people and growing our workforce to provide the best patient experience. Representing the Trust on local, regional, and national groups to inform and influence policy relating to the portfolio, you'll act as a change agent for the profession within the regulatory framework.
What’s more, you'll provide professional leadership across care settings and be responsible for ensuring standards of AHP care are implemented in line with the Trust's objectives of clinical quality and safety. You’ll also play a significant leadership role in the development and implementation of group policies, leading and managing major trust projects which take corporate responsibility.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Please refer to the linked Lead AHP Workforce & Professional Education Job description and person specification attached.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
