Job overview
Band 8a | 37.5 hours per week (1.0 WTE) Hosted by Doncaster Care Group – working across RDaSH
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Allied Health Professional to take on a pivotal leadership role supporting mental health inpatient services across RDaSH.
This is a Trust‑wide role, hosted within the Doncaster Care Group, but with responsibility and impact across the full RDaSH footprint. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly across sites and care groups, supporting services wherever needed to deliver consistent, high‑quality AHP practice.
About the role
As AHP Lead for Mental Health Inpatients, you will play a key role in establishing consistent, high‑quality AHP pathways across our acute directorates. You will provide professional leadership for AHPs working in inpatient settings, ensuring services are aligned to best practice, national standards and local priorities.
This is a clinical leadership role with a strong operational focus. You will maintain a clinical caseload and spend a significant proportion of your time in patient‑facing activity, supporting complex cases and providing specialist input across inpatient wards.
You will work in close partnership with matrons, service managers and professional leads to develop safe, effective and innovative services, and contribute to Trust‑wide AHP leadership and delivery plans.
Main duties of the job
- Provide professional leadership for AHPs across inpatient mental health services, representing all AHP roles regardless of background
- Lead service development, pathway design and implementation of AHP delivery plans across the Trust
- Maintain a clinical caseload and provide specialist support for complex cases
- Support workforce development, supervision, and a positive culture where staff feel valued and supported
- Contribute to Trust‑wide governance, quality improvement, and performance monitoring
- Work collaboratively across care groups, influencing practice and supporting consistent standards of care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to listen to and respect others views and opinions.
- Ability to establish effective working relationships with staff, Commissioners and partner agencies.
- Ability to build credibility and work collaboratively with others across the service.
- Ability to influence others at various levels across the organisations.
- Effective leadership skills, ability to create a culture where staff are valued and supported.
- Good problem solving skills, able to analyse a situation, identify root causes and seek solutions to address the problem.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Excellent IT skills, ability to use Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
- Ability to communicate complicated, contentious and conflicting information in a sensitive and tactful manner, particularly where there may be resistance or barriers to understanding.
- Ability to analyse, interpret and utilise complex information for planning and reporting purposes.
Knowledge
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of Professional Standards and Codes of Conduct for AHPs.
- In-depth knowledge of Professional Standards and Codes of Conduct for AHPs
- Evidence of delivering services in line with evidence based practice and with clear outcome measures.
Desirable
- In-depth knowledge of local commissioning and provider context including health, social care and education.
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-registration Occupational Therapy experience.
- Extensive experience within adult acute inpatient services.
- Experience managing complex clinical caseloads.
- Experience leading teams and supervising staff.
- Clinical governance and audit experience.
- Workforce management experience
- Working as part of a Multi Professional Leadership Team (MPLT)
Desirable
- Experience of developing business cases for new roles / services.
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification and associated professional registration (HCPC) for AHPs.
- Master’s level qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of significant ongoing continued professional development
Desirable
- Willingness to undertake further leadership development both formal and informal.
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This advert is for Mental Health Inpatients Allied Health Professional Lead with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Allied health professionals role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Aug 2026.
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