Associate Chief Allied Health Professional

at  Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust are very pleased to be recruiting for our newly created role of Associate Chief AHP.
You will work with the Chief Nursing Officer and senior corporate nursing team in providing strong, visionary leadership to the 11 allied health professions at the RBHFT.
The Assoc Chief AHP will provide strong visible professional leadership to the AHP workforce across the care groups which will enable delivery of compassionate, safe and high quality services to our patients.

Represent AHP’s and the Trust at local, system and national forums.
Provide professional leadership to AHPs who lead services with a particular focus on quality and safety.
Professionally lead on key patient experience, complaint and patient safety themes specifically relating to the AHP workforce in collaboration with AHP service leads.
In conjunction with the CNO Safe Staffing Lead, provide professional leadership to the bi annual AHP trust wide safer staffing reviews.
Support professional development and leadership, competence, capacity and standards of conduct directly leading to high quality, efficient patient care.
Working with the Care Group Lead AHPs, develop strategies to reduce bank and agency usage in AHP posts by promoting a flexible and agile workforce, and implementing job planning methodology to services.
Lead and provides strategic leadership oversight of the development and governance of the AHP workforce (NHSE and NHSI 2019).
Ensure systems and processes in place to ensure AHP clinical and professional supervision is in place and monitored.
Chair the AHP forum (currently co-chaired by AHP operational leads in addition to their usual roles of managing teams).
We are one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country - serving a population of more than 500,000 people - and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire.
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, play, and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent , reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
For further details on the job role, please refer to the Job description and Person specification attached