Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment available for internal applicants)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 380-SS0508-B
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- ECAO / Maidstone/Hybrid Working
- Town
- Canterbury / Maidstone
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
AHP Apprentice Lead
Band 7
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We have an opportunity for an AHP Apprentice Lead, as part of the AHP Leadership team to support the AHP Practice Development and Education Lead and AHP Practice Placement Facilitator.
The role will offer you a varied and wide-ranging professional development opportunity in education and Allied Health Profession apprentice learning.
The post will involve the coordination and monitoring of the learning experiences of level 3 AHP apprentices, OT Degree Apprentices, and Peer Apprentices. Working with universities within the region and beyond, the focus of the role is to ensure quality apprentice experiences for allied health professionals including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, paramedics, and Prosthetics.
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Main duties of the job
KEY RESULT AREAS:
• Lead the growth of AHP Apprenticeship programmes.
• Streamline the AHP Apprentice recruitment pathways.
• Co-ordinate and provide on-site support, educational input, and developmental activities for teams, work-based mentors, and AHP Apprentices.
• Working collaboratively with the AHP Practice Development and Education Lead and AHP Practice Placement Facilitator providing support in the AHP Practice Education Team as required; reporting to the AHP Leadership team.
• Working in partnership with Universities/Colleges to develop, coordinate, evaluate, and support the implementation of education programmes with providers.
• Lead the development of work-based mentors.
The right person for this role is required to work independently, have high levels of digital literacy, manage their workload autonomously, and be involved in decision-making.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
For further information about the post:
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Allied Health Professional with a breadth of clinical experience
- • Practice educator
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of post graduate development through formal postgraduate courses or experience
- Registered member of the relevant professional body and / or special interest group
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of managing complex and competing demands with internal and external stakeholders
- • Delivering teaching and presentations to develop staff and learners
- • Ability to make decisions autonomously and co-operatively as part of an inter-professional team
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of coaching, mentoring, managing and developing staff
- Experience within a clinical leadership / professional role
Understanding
Essential criteria
- An understanding of the broad aims of current national and local healthcare education and apprentice programmes/policies/guidance
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of current AHP Apprentice programmes in both clinical and education settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nina Phoenix
- Job title
- AHP Practice Development and Education Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07710572025
- Additional information
Teresa Buchan
07825386072
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
- Telephone
- 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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