Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a Trust-wide AHP professional governance framework
• Provide assurance on AHP professional standards, scope of practice and regulatory compliance
• Ensure effective systems for supervision, competency, credentialing and registration support
• Lead or oversee professional reviews relating to incidents, complaints and conduct concerns involving AHP staff
• Advise on professional risk, safe staffing and safe scope of practice

• To ensure that Allied health Professional staff have a clear professional development pathway that meets national guidelines
• To work with Trust educational governance processes to ensure a multi-professional approach to standards within clinical education
• Promote an AHP research and innovation culture
• Support audit, research and service evaluation activity
• Develop academic and research partnerships
• Encourage dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practice

• Accountability for own AHP practice as set out in policies by maintaining responsibility for own professional development, by undertaking appropriate supervision, training and appraisals
• Maintain records as appropriate
• Demonstrate reflective practice, using analytical skills and determine professional and personal training requirements
• Contribute and promote Safeguarding of Adults and Safeguarding of Children across the Trust

• Extensive post qualifying experience and current or past experience as an AHP.
• Demonstrate wide range of professional knowledge across service lines and specialist knowledge of national and local policy and legislation.
• Recent CPD activity and demonstration of working with local universities in role as an AHP.
• Ability to manoeuvre through complex situations and focus on agreed outcomes and decisions within a system of competing demands and views.
• Provide professional opinion in professional investigations and incident reviews.
• Plan and prioritise multiple and competing work streams with minimal supervision
• Negotiation, proactive partnership working and leadership skills required to work with a range of senior managers and clinicians across agencies.
• To be a member of relevant trust wide management meetings
• To support and advise the Senior Operational Team, locality and service managers on ensuring AHP performance indicators are met within the Trust

• Lead development and delivery of the Trust AHP Strategy and Programme of Work aligned to Trust and ICS priorities
• Provide senior professional advice to the Director of Psychological Therapies, AHPs and Social Workers on AHP matters
• Ensure AHP contribution is embedded in transformation, pathway redesign and new models of care
• Represent AHPs within Trust-wide and system-level strategic forums
• Act as senior ambassador and advocate for AHP professions

• Lead AHP workforce strategy and career framework development
• Support advanced practice, consultant practice and extended scope roles
• Work with HR, OD and Education teams on recruitment and retention strategies
• Develop AHP leadership pipelines and succession planning
• Strengthen placement, preceptorship and HEI partnerships

• Lead AHP contribution to quality improvement and clinical effectiveness programmes
• Promote use of audit, outcome measures and benchmarking data
• Support services to evidence AHP impact and value
• Contribute to Trust quality and safety governance structure

Act as Trust lead for advice, guidance, support in relation to AHP work practice and services, using their own specialist knowledge.