Head of Allied Health Professionals | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £76,965 - £88,682 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 October 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M2 5DB |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7392880/349-LCO-7392880-RL4 |
Summary
Are you a dynamic and visionary leader with a passion for shaping the future of Allied health professional practice? We are seeking a Head of AHPs to join our senior leadership team, driving transformation, innovation, and excellence across the Trust. This is an exciting opportunity as we transition into a new Clinical Group structure and align with the NHS 10-year health plan, which prioritises community-based and preventative care.
The Local Care Organisation (LCO) serves the diverse communities of Manchester and Trafford. As an integrated care division, the LCO work across health and social care to deliver safe and effective services in partnership with primary care, local authorities, hospitals, the voluntary sector, and beyond.
The role provides strategic leadership across our six AHP professions within community services, covering a wide range of clinical services including urgent care, scheduled care, and children’s services. We are dedicated to workforce development, offering clinical support and career development at various stages, and have established AHP ACPs.
As a pivotal member of our triumvirate leadership team, you will be responsible for ensuring high-quality, patient-centred care through strategic and operational leadership of our nursing and AHP workforce. Your expertise will guide workforce planning, quality improvement, and professional development, ensuring we meet regulatory care standards and deliver outstanding outcomes for our service users
Provide strong, visible professional leadership to AHPs across community services.
Develop and implement strategies to improve care delivered in community setting.
Lead on the delivery of AHP objectives set by the Director of Nursing.
Collaborate with system partners to improve community services .
Ensure high standards of care and patient experience through innovative and dynamic leadership.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Sep 2025
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