Job summary
The role of the Deputy Chief Allied Health Professional (AHP) is to support the Regional Chief AHP in providing expert professional leadership for AHPs at system level, whilst also ensuring that local / regional insights and issues, specific to the AHP workforce are understood and considered in regional and national policy. This includes AHP workforce equality and equity issues.
The Deputy Chief AHP will support the Regional Chief AHP in providing leadership across the integrated care system footprints, ensuring that the AHP workforce is optimised across pathways and across organisational boundaries, to benefit patient care.
The Deputy Chief AHP will provide quality and clinical assurance of AHP services to the Regional Chief AHP and if required, the regional senior management team.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the Deputy Regional Chief AHP job description and the personal specification as attached.
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Deputy Regional Chief AHP job description and the personal specification as attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Deputy Regional Chief AHP job description and the personal specification as attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications.
Essential
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council or General Osteopathic Council as one of the 14 allied health professions; dietetics; arts therapies (drama, music and art); occupational therapy; orthoptics; osteopathy; paramedics; physiotherapy; podiatry; prosthetics and orthotics; radiography (diagnostic or therapeutic); or speech and language therapy:
Knowledge and experience.
Essential
- Significant experience as a senior leader influencing and assuring Boards within a health or social care organisation (NHS Trust/LA/ICS etc.) including both provider and commissioner experience.
- Significant experience of supporting integrated care systems and working in partnership effectively with multiple stakeholders to achieve positive change
- Evidence of widely acknowledged AHP expertise in each of the specialist domains relevant to this role e.g., clinical safety, quality assurance improvement, rehabilitation, equality, diversity and inclusion etc. including papers published, national/international conference presentations, invited lectures, additional specialist qualifications, leadership of National committees/working parties.
- Experience of managing complex professional regulatory issues.
Skills, capabilities and attributes.
Essential
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
Values and behaviours.
Essential
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values including a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and anti-racism.
Person Specification
Qualifications.
Essential
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council or General Osteopathic Council as one of the 14 allied health professions; dietetics; arts therapies (drama, music and art); occupational therapy; orthoptics; osteopathy; paramedics; physiotherapy; podiatry; prosthetics and orthotics; radiography (diagnostic or therapeutic); or speech and language therapy:
Knowledge and experience.
Essential
- Significant experience as a senior leader influencing and assuring Boards within a health or social care organisation (NHS Trust/LA/ICS etc.) including both provider and commissioner experience.
- Significant experience of supporting integrated care systems and working in partnership effectively with multiple stakeholders to achieve positive change
- Evidence of widely acknowledged AHP expertise in each of the specialist domains relevant to this role e.g., clinical safety, quality assurance improvement, rehabilitation, equality, diversity and inclusion etc. including papers published, national/international conference presentations, invited lectures, additional specialist qualifications, leadership of National committees/working parties.
- Experience of managing complex professional regulatory issues.
Skills, capabilities and attributes.
Essential
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
Values and behaviours.
Essential
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values including a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and anti-racism.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
