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An exciting opportunity has arisen for one of our Trust Professional Leads. This is a 4-month opportunity which may be extended.
BCHC has Trust-wide Professional AHP Leads for several professions (including Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Radiography, Orthoptics) and this vacancy is for the Speech & Language Therapy profession. Trust-wide Professional Leads provide advice and leadership on professional issues, provide a collective voice for the profession and support the delivery of the BCHC AHP Strategy Implementation plan. You will lead on agreed objectives for your profession, such as Apprenticeships, Advancing Practice, or Clinical training of students and staff.
The Trust-wide Professional leads work as part of a wider team of AHP leaders across the Trust and are led by the Chief AHP and Director of Therapies.
BCHC has an Allied Health Professions (AHP) workforce forms the the second largest clinical workforce within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC). AHPs work across the five Clinical Divisions and corporate teams. Each clinical division has a Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies and an AHP Lead; these two posts ensure AHPs work together and with others to deliver the Trust/Divisions objectives and the BCHC AHP Clinical and Professional Strategy; and ensure a collective AHP voice at Divisional Boards and within the Trust.
The BCHC Professional Lead posts will support the above structure, leading one of the AHP professions and supporting the delivery of agreed Trust/Division/ AHP objectives that are of greatest priority to that individual professional group.
The purpose of a BCHC Professional Lead is to provide advice and leadership on professional issues across BCHC, decrease fragmentation of the professions ensuring the professions have a collective voice at both a Division/Trust level. As a member of the BCHC AHP Council a Professional Lead will support the development and delivery of a BCHC AHP Clinical and Professional Strategies Implementation Plan; meeting both Divisional, Trust and National Strategic objectives.
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: seema gudivada Job title: Director of Therapies & Chief AHP Email address:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for one of our Trust Professional Leads. This is a 4-month opportunity which may be extended.
BCHC has Trust-wide Professional AHP Leads for several professions (including Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Radiography, Orthoptics) and this vacancy is for the Speech & Language Therapy profession. Trust-wide Professional Leads provide advice and leadership on professional issues, provide a collective voice for the profession and support the delivery of the BCHC AHP Strategy Implementation plan. You will lead on agreed objectives for your profession, such as Apprenticeships, Advancing Practice, or Clinical training of students and staff.
The Trust-wide Professional leads work as part of a wider team of AHP leaders across the Trust and are led by the Chief AHP and Director of Therapies.
BCHC has an Allied Health Professions (AHP) workforce forms the the second largest clinical workforce within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC). AHPs work across the five Clinical Divisions and corporate teams. Each clinical division has a Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies and an AHP Lead; these two posts ensure AHPs work together and with others to deliver the Trust/Divisions objectives and the BCHC AHP Clinical and Professional Strategy; and ensure a collective AHP voice at Divisional Boards and within the Trust.
The BCHC Professional Lead posts will support the above structure, leading one of the AHP professions and supporting the delivery of agreed Trust/Division/ AHP objectives that are of greatest priority to that individual professional group.
The purpose of a BCHC Professional Lead is to provide advice and leadership on professional issues across BCHC, decrease fragmentation of the professions ensuring the professions have a collective voice at both a Division/Trust level. As a member of the BCHC AHP Council a Professional Lead will support the development and delivery of a BCHC AHP Clinical and Professional Strategies Implementation Plan; meeting both Divisional, Trust and National Strategic objectives.
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: seema gudivada Job title: Director of Therapies & Chief AHP Email address: