*INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY* AHP Professional Lead

Job summary

Internal to MPFT applicants only

An opportunity has become available for an experienced Allied Health Professional (AHP) to join the Children's Mental Health Senior Leadership Team, as AHP professional lead for up to 22.5 hours per week fixed term to 31/10/2025. The post holder will be responsible for providing professional leadership for Mental Health AHPs across the Care Group, in accordance with Trust values, ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient, and high-quality services for patients and their families/carers.

The AHP professional lead is accountable to the Director of AHPs and an integral member of the Trust wide AHP professional leadership team. The AHP professional leadership team is responsible for delivering AHP strategy and priorities into the care group, to support high quality effective AHP practice.

The successful candidate will be a HCPC registered AHP and have Mental Health experience. They will be committed to improving the lives of our young people and families. They will have excellent communication skills and will be a compassionate and value-based leader.

Main duties of the job

• Assess people's occupational performance needs, in relation to mental health needs, including risk. Assessment, intervention evaluation is based on highly developed specialist clinical AHP knowledge and skills
• Plan, coordinate/deliver and evaluate the interventions and highlight any changes to delivery required to meet the agreed/anticipated outcomes.
• Provide assessment and interventions both individually, as part of a team, and through liaison with/referral to other agencies.
• Plan, develop, implement and evaluate specialist packages of care, using Care Programme Approach (CPA) where applicable, working in partnership with others, delegating and referring as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use.
• Draw on a diverse range of knowledge in making decisions to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
• Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events and capture the learning from these experiences to improve patient care and service delivery.
• Support and develop AHP staff knowledge, skills and competencies through role modelling best practice, through joint working, professional supervision, mentoring or coaching as required.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.