Job requirements
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Essential
12 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant operational healthcare experience
- Experience
Extensive senior management experience
- Experience
Track record of achieving financial and service targets
- Experience
Leading change through empowering people and holding them to account
- Experience
Good understanding of NHS policy
- Experience
Good understanding of the framework for clinical governance
- Experience
Understanding of clinical pathways and treatments relevant to the Service
- Experience
Experience of managing and utilising budgets effectively
- Experience
Evidence of creative and inspirational approach to problem solving
- Qualifications
Registered AHP with masters level or equivalent
- Qualifications
Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent high-quality training/experience
- Qualifications
Evidence of further personal development
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Significant operational experience in acute/integrated healthcare.
- Experience
Previous involvement in NHS service development and reconfiguration
- Experience
Experience in participation in NHS on call service as a senior manager.
- Qualifications
Experience in health care including relevant clinical qualifications
- Qualifications
NHS Improving Quality tools and techniques
- Qualifications
Formal project management qualification
Job overview
Associate Director of AHPs
The Associate Director for Allied Health Professions is a pivotal role in the leadership, identity and development of allied health professionals (AHPs) within Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. They will provide strategic leadership to all AHP disciplines which include acute services, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, nutrition and dietetics, speech and language, podiatry, imaging, optometry, operating department practitioners and paramedics.
The post holder will work strategically to raise the profile of AHPs and will lead the development and implementation of a Trust wide strategy plan for allied health professional services and associated activities. Working proactively and collaboratively with Divisional Triumvirates, medical and nursing leaders they will provide professional leadership to identify and execute opportunities for allied health professional transformation, driving clinical innovation and new ways of working to meet current and future patient needs. Identifying workforce opportunities to liberate the potential and demonstrate the value of Allied Health Professionals is a key component of this role.
Main duties of the job
The Associate Director Allied Health Professionals will collaborate with professional leads across non-AHP disciplines and will be actively engaged with the BSW Hospital Group, playing an important role in shaping the strategic landscape for Allied Health Professionals at system level and in building a sustainable Allied Health Professional community.
You will provide strong credible AHP leadership and working with the Heads of Service deliver a leadership structure that delivers strategically, professionally, operationally and clinically with clear lines of authority, delegation and accountability
You will provide senior, professional leadership to AHPs across GWH demonstrating advanced analytical and judgement skills to interpret highly complex facts and information to enable the development of an AHP vision and strategic plan.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Associate Director for Allied Health Professions is a pivotal role in the leadership, identity and development of allied health professionals (AHPs) within Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Please see attached full job description
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Associate Director of AHPs with Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Director role. The advertised salary is £79,504 - £91,609 Per annum, Pro Rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 20 Sep 2026.
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