The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Associate Chief Allied Health Professional

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Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
5/16/2025
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Description
This is an exciting opportunity for a senior AHP to lead and drive research and innovation across the AHP services at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust promoting clinical academic careers and digitally enabled care as an integral and innovative means to develop staff and improve service delivery and design ensuring effective, well led, responsive, modern, evidence- based outcome measured service delivery.

The successful candidate will provide professional leadership embedding professional standards and governance structures to support safe and high quality AHP service delivery.

They will strategically influence and professionally lead the AHP workforce, including leading on planning and workforce development, encouraging multi-disciplinary and collaborative working with other stakeholders, and co-production with service users, carers and families, to ensure the effective use of AHP resources.

The successful candidate will provide expert advice to the Trust on all matters relating to AHP’s, including regional and national initiatives and dissemination of information back from the Board and senior managers to the AHP workforce.

To professionally and strategically drive the development of the AHP workforce within clinical academic careers to role redesign, extend, enhance or create new roles to meet wider workforce challenges.

To ensure the future supply of the AHP workforce within the Trust by collaborating closely with HEI stakeholders and national and GM initiatives such as the GM Placement Allocation scheme and Health Education England.

To drive and champion digital innovations, working closely with Digital Services, within the AHP workforce as part of the local and national AHP strategy, aligning with the AHP Digital framework, to improve patient care, service delivery and data capture around clinical outcomes.

To drive and champion research and quality improvement projects as part of the local and national AHP strategy and corporate Trust objectives

Lead and influence the professional delivery of safe, effective, and high quality AHP service care that meet Trust needs and professional standards across the breadth of AHP professions, including incorporating national guidance and Trust values and behaviours.

Represent the AHP perspective, knowledge and skills at Trust wide meetings and at regional and national events ensuring the Trust is up to date with AHP developments and initiatives and the AHP workforce has information appropriately disseminated from the Board and senior management about developments within the Trust and GM.

Working at The Christie is a unique and rewarding challenge. Every member of staff plays a crucial role in giving our patients the best possible care, treatment and experience. With a supportive culture, an international reputation and a range of staff benefits, there are a lot of good reasons to join The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vicky Sharples Job title: Chief Nurse Email address: [email protected]

Via Laura Obrien (Exec PA)

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