AHP Workforce and Education Lead

Job overview

The role provides strategic leadership for AHP workforce development across GWH, promoting innovative practice, early‑career engagement, equitable preceptorship, and high‑quality student placement experiences. It leads and coordinates undergraduate activity, supports return‑to‑practice and apprenticeship expansion, and strengthens career pathways including extended scope, ACP routes, leadership development, and research opportunities. The post works collaboratively with AHP managers, HR, HEI partners, and system colleagues to ensure compassionate, inclusive workforce practices, robust governance, and high standards of education and staff development. It oversees mentorship and preceptor capability, manages learner‑related data, builds strong relationships with service leads, contributes to trust‑wide AHP initiatives, and supports the AHP Staff Council. The role also provides professional leadership, project management, and delegated support to the AD for AHPs, ensuring effective communication, safe learning culture, and alignment with organisational workforce priorities.

Main duties of the job

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The AHP Workforce Lead will work closely with the Associate Director of AHPs, the AHP student service, and the wider trust workforce team to support, strengthen, and develop AHP services across GWH. The role contributes to shaping and delivering key workforce work‑streams, including those aligned to the NHS Long Term Plan, and leads initiatives to maximise AHP training pipelines, enhance retention, and ‘grow our own’ workforce through pre‑registration, apprenticeship, and career‑development pathways. The post holder will collaborate across the Group hospital model—particularly with RUH and Salisbury—to ensure AHP workforce development is safe, productive, sustainable, and aligned with local and system needs. They will line‑manage the GWH student placement project team and require experience in project management or service improvement, alongside a broad understanding of AHP workforce structures, enhanced and advanced practice pathways, consultant roles, AHP Faculties, and the wider healthcare system.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.