Band 8b AHP Professional Lead | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer:
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust
Location:
Birmingham, B13 8JL
Pay:
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full time
Disability Confident:
No
Closing Date:
13/03/2026
About this job
We are delighted to offer a committed and experienced AHP clinical lead the opportunity to join us as our Divisional AHP lead in Children and Families.
The Children and Families Services Division is committed to continuous quality improvement and appreciates the significant contribution that the Allied Health Professions workforce makes to service delivery and transformation.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint to this key role.
The Allied Health Professional Lead is accountable for professionally leading the Allied Health Professionals within the Division and working closely with other Divisional leads to ensure quality and safety standards are achieved.
At a time of great change, with new ways of working and new roles being implemented into the workforce, this is an exciting time to undertake this role leading on the strategic development of specific objectives of the division.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the division has robust structures, processes and systems in place to support a workforce that is fit for the future and that is competent and able to deliver safe, high quality services and excellent patient care.
You will provide professional leadership to the AHPs across the division supported by a senior management team. You will have the opportunity to influence broader strategic and operational planning working as part of the divisional leadership team and deputising for the Associate Chief of Nursing and Therapies.
You will have opportunity to represent Allied Health Professionals within the Division participating in career and succession planning and leading on the future development of senior Allied Health Professionals.
You will understand what it takes to bring our clinical workforce together, and achieve results that will benefit our service users.
You will be a highly driven individual with experience of supporting transformation programmes.
With highly developed communication and negotiation skills, you will motivate teams and inspire a culture of continuous improvement.
You must have an understanding of community healthcare as well as knowledge of education and the workforce in a healthcare setting.
The successful candidate will be leading on workstreams which align with their skills and experience in addition to
* Quality improvement in the division
* Clinical Effectiveness
* Research and innovation
* SEND support and service transformation
* Attendance at key divisional meetings
* Professional Leadership for AHPs Be Part of Our Team 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.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Please refer to the attached Job Description/Person Specification for more details regarding the post.
Information about Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust can also be accessed via the website at www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk and applications can be completed on line atwww.jobs.nhs.ukor, for an application pack, please contact the Centralised Recruitment Team, Priestley Wharf Birmingham 0121 466 6262. This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Feb 2026
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