AHP Faculty (Secondment/Fixed Term)
The closing date is 29 June 2025
Job summary
This is your opportunity to lead a transformative Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce programme across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS), Funded by NHS England and hosted by Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This hands-on role will drive innovation, collaboration, and real change for AHPs. You'll work alongside the C&P AHP Council, and the system workforce teams to deliver on key priorities - think leadership development, staff retention, support worker growth, return-to-practice initiatives, apprenticeships, boosting education capacity, championing diversity, and re-establishing our AHP Faculty. The role spans the following domains; Supply Optimisation, Educator Career Framework Preceptorship Models, Support Worker Development, Workforce Equality & Upskilling, Professional Advocacy. You will shape and manage these initiatives in line with our ICS workforce strategy and the Joint Forward Plan. Key duties include providing strategic leadership to the AHP Faculty and the AHP Council; reporting progress to senior leaders; and crafting a robust plan to grow and diversify our AHP talent pool. If you're a passionate, driven AHP leader eager to make a tangible impact through collaboration and innovation, we want you to apply.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead and manage AHP workforce programmes across the ICS, translating the AHP Council's strategic priorities, the ICS Joint Forward Plan, and NHSE's Long Term Workforce Plan into local action. They will identify and implement innovative, collaborative working models while mapping current AHP activities across the ICS footprint and benchmarking against national best practices. In partnership with ICS Chief AHPs, education leads, higher education institutions, and administrative teams, they will develop and implement protocols, procedures, and quality standards to support education and development. They will track expenditures, and demonstrate value for money by managing and delivering agreed benefits, while gathering and sharing workforce-related projects to standardise practice, reduce variation, and improve quality and patient safety. The post holder will produce complex project documentation such as options appraisals and evaluations. They will report trends, risks, and progress to the AHP Council and ICS People Board. Finally, they will strategically plan programmes by identifying interdependencies, stakeholder impacts, resource requirements, and contingency measures to ensure timely and effective delivery of all projects.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Details
Date posted
18 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£64,455 to £74,896 a year
Contract
Secondment
Duration
18 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
175-2526-PS1262
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
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