# AHP Workforce and Education Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ahp-workforce-and-education-lead/d05993da-aa18-407e-8885-d06e08c1a9d8 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/ahp-workforce-and-education-lead/d05993da-aa18-407e-8885-d06e08c1a9d8.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Great Western Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Allied health professionals - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T09:14:17.648Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Swindon/Great_Western_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Allied_Health_Care_Professionals/Allied_Health_Care_Professionals-v8118680 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8118680?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gwh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of being a clinical AHP - Up to date knowledge of HCPC standards and NHS long term workforce plan - Significant post registration experience at band 7 or above **Desirable** - Management experience - Experience of working to achieve AHP strategic drivers - Understanding of AHP workforce planning and barriers - Working across organisational boundaries ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered AHP - Master’s Degree level qualification or equivalent experience **Desirable** - Management qualification - Leadership course - Project management course ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10414716) - [person spec (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10414717) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.