# Deputy Director Allied Health Professionals > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-director-allied-health-professionals/38f9ecd1-f41c-4025-ad97-31a4df0a4bf6 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-director-allied-health-professionals/38f9ecd1-f41c-4025-ad97-31a4df0a4bf6.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £103,102 - £117,560 per annum Inc HCAs - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-21T23:01:36.681Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administration/Administration-v7827529 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7827529?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview ### Deputy Director of Allied Health Professionals (MHLDA and CAMHS Services) Working closely with the Director of AHPs, the Deputy Director will provide visible, credible, compassionate and inclusive professional leadership for a large and diverse Allied Health Professional workforce (780 WTE). The postholder will hold a designated portfolio of strategic leadership and professional oversight, supporting delivery of the Trust Strategy and the ELFT AHP Plan. The initial portfolio will cover Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism, Specialist Services and CAMHS (approximately 320 AHPs), with flexibility to adapt responsibilities in response to evolving Trust priorities. The role will provide professional leadership and governance assurance, lead the AHP quality and safety agenda, and drive innovation, workforce transformation and the development of new models of care. These models will be person‑centred, prevention‑focused, community‑based and digitally enabled. The postholder will also strengthen AHP identity, visibility and impact across the four pillars of practice: clinical practice, leadership, education and research. ### Main duties of the job Acting with delegated Trust‑wide authority, the Deputy Director will be a senior member of the Trust leadership team, deputising for the Director of AHPs as required. The role includes representing the Trust and the AHP workforce at place‑based, Integrated Care System (ICS), regional and national forums. This is a pivotal senior leadership opportunity for an experienced AHP leader who can translate complex strategy into deliverable plans, influence across organisational and system boundaries, and contribute to improving outcomes, experience and population health. - Provide visible, credible and compassionate professional leadership for the Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce, acting with delegated authority on behalf of the Director of AHPs. - Act as a senior professional leader (Tier 2) within the Trust, providing expert AHP advice and contributing to corporate and clinical governance structures as required. - Work in close partnership with Directorate Management Teams, Clinical Directors, Professional and Discipline Leads, and corporate teams to align AHP priorities with Trust, place‑based, system and national strategies. - Translate complex strategic priorities into deliverable service, workforce and quality plans, communicating effectively with clinical, professional and system stakeholders. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - aintain visibility within clinical services through direct engagement with frontline staff, ensuring risks and issues are identified, escalated and managed through Trust governance arrangements. - Provide assurance through the collection, analysis and reporting of quality, workforce, outcomes and productivity data to inform decision‑making and improvement. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations. Our Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce plays a vital and expanding role in delivering high-quality, evidence based care across ELFT. The Deputy Director of AHPs will support the Director of AHPs to provide visible, credible and compassionate professional leadership for our AHP workforce (780 WTE). They will hold a designated portfolio of strategic leadership and professional oversight, supporting delivery of our Trust strategy and ELFT AHP plan. This will initially include our Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism, Specialist Services and CAMHS services (320 AHPs), with flexibility to adapt portfolios in response to Trust priorities. Working in close partnership with Directorate leadership teams, Clinical Directors and Professional/Discipline Leads, the post holder will develop and embed a cohesive and ambitious AHP vision and priorities across their portfolio of services, ensuring the effective deployment, support and optimisation of the AHP workforce. They will play a critical role in aligning AHP priorities with the ELFT Trust Strategy, delivering our AHP Plan and supporting place based initiatives, and wider system transformation programmes. The Deputy Director will provide strategic leadership, identifying transformative potential within the AHP workforce and enabling innovation, new ways of working and new models of care that are person-centered, prevention focused, community based, data informed and digitally enabled. They will convert complex strategic concepts into deliverable plans, communicating effectively with diverse clinical, professional and system audiences. ## Job Details Working closely with the Director of AHPs, the Deputy Director will provide visible, credible, compassionate and inclusive professional leadership for a large and diverse Allied Health Professional workforce (780 WTE). The postholder will hold a designated portfolio of strategic leadership and professional oversight, supporting delivery of the Trust Strategy and the ELFT AHP Plan. The initial portfolio will cover Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism, Specialist Services and CAMHS (approximately 320 AHPs), with flexibility to adapt responsibilities in response to evolving Trust priorities. The role will provide professional leadership and governance assurance, lead the AHP quality and safety agenda, and drive innovation, workforce transformation and the development of new models of care. These models will be person‑centred, prevention‑focused, community‑based and digitally enabled. The postholder will also strengthen AHP identity, visibility and impact across the four pillars of practice: clinical practice, leadership, education and research. ## Responsibilities Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations. Our Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce plays a vital and expanding role in delivering high-quality, evidence based care across ELFT. The Deputy Director of AHPs will support the Director of AHPs to provide visible, credible and compassionate professional leadership for our AHP workforce (780 WTE). They will hold a designated portfolio of strategic leadership and professional oversight, supporting delivery of our Trust strategy and ELFT AHP plan. This will initially include our Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism, Specialist Services and CAMHS services (320 AHPs), with flexibility to adapt portfolios in response to Trust priorities. Working in close partnership with Directorate leadership teams, Clinical Directors and Professional/Discipline Leads, the post holder will develop and embed a cohesive and ambitious AHP vision and priorities across their portfolio of services, ensuring the effective deployment, support and optimisation of the AHP workforce. They will play a critical role in aligning AHP priorities with the ELFT Trust Strategy, delivering our AHP Plan and supporting place based initiatives, and wider system transformation programmes. The Deputy Director will provide strategic leadership, identifying transformative potential within the AHP workforce and enabling innovation, new ways of working and new models of care that are person-centered, prevention focused, community based, data informed and digitally enabled. They will convert complex strategic concepts into deliverable plans, communicating effectively with diverse clinical, professional and system audiences. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Highly developed strategic thinking and analytical skills, with ability to manage and present complex information - Demonstrable ability to lead change and influence without direct authority in complex systems - Excellent influencing, negotiation and communication skills, operating credibly at senior and system level **Desirable** - Ability to lead through ambiguity and manage contentious issues - Experience of using data, dashboards and benchmarking to drive improvement ### knowledge **Essential** - In‑depth knowledge of AHP professional governance, HCPC standards and regulatory responsibilities - Strong understanding of the NHS structure, policy environment and transformation agenda, including Integrated Care Systems - Detailed understanding of mental health, learning disability and autism service pathways, including relevant legislative and governance requirements **Desirable** - Knowledge of population health, inequalities and assets‑based approaches within service design - Knowledge of digital enablement and data‑enabled clinical systems supporting professional practice ### Experience **Essential** - Significant clinical experience in the relevant specialist clinical field CHS, MHLDA, Specialist Services, Forensics or CAMHS - Substantial experience of leading AHP services within community health services, learning disability, mental health or CAMHS settings - Demonstrable experience of professional governance, quality, safety and workforce transformation, including service redesign and new models of care **Desirable** - Experience of leading or sponsoring research, service evaluation or quality improvement programmes - Experience of system‑level leadership and engagement (ICS, regional or national AHP forums, professional bodies or HEIs) ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Full Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as an Allied Health Professional - - Educated to Masters level - Evidence of senior leadership and management development, gained through formal qualification, accredited programme, or equivalent experience. **Desirable** - Post Doctoral Qualification - Quality Improvement or improvement science qualification ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [deputy director ahps mhlda jd ps (pdf, 381.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10299506) ## 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.