Job summary
Are you ready to shape the future of Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) across North Central London? Passionate about workforce transformation and system-wide collaboration? This is your chance to lead, influence, and inspire at scale.
We're on the lookout for an ambitious, forward-thinking AHP to take the helm of our AHP Faculty as Faculty Lead. If you're a registered AHP with strong leadership and a pulse on the real challenges and opportunities facing our professions, we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As AHP Faculty Lead, you'll, Chair the AHP Faculty, working closely with the NCL AHP Council, lead the strategic development of the AHP workforce across the ICS, in collaboration with healthcare providers, HEIs, and system partners, direct and support a cross-sector team, including line management of project staff. You will drive impactful projects and ensure long-term sustainability of the faculty's work and be the go-to strategic voice for AHPs across a system that values innovation and integration.
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting professional development including contribution to CPD for staff and students across a range of professions
- Experience of working in a range of health settings, with significant experience in a Lead role
- Experience of leading a professional group based in various sites and services with the vision to develop structures and services to meet future need and ensuring professional standards of practice are maintained.
- Experience of planning complex activities with multiple stakeholders including business planning that impacts across a broad range of services.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to interpret and analyse highly complex information including qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources including patient information and statistical data
- Ability to establish professional boundaries and resolve complex issues, using negotiation skills, influencing and diplomacy, with relevant stakeholders ensuring resolution of potentially sensitive and contentious professional and ethical issues
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting professional development including contribution to CPD for staff and students across a range of professions
- Experience of working in a range of health settings, with significant experience in a Lead role
- Experience of leading a professional group based in various sites and services with the vision to develop structures and services to meet future need and ensuring professional standards of practice are maintained.
- Experience of planning complex activities with multiple stakeholders including business planning that impacts across a broad range of services.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Ability to interpret and analyse highly complex information including qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources including patient information and statistical data
- Ability to establish professional boundaries and resolve complex issues, using negotiation skills, influencing and diplomacy, with relevant stakeholders ensuring resolution of potentially sensitive and contentious professional and ethical issues
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
