Principal Allied Health Professional Lead
| Posting date: | 31 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £76,965.00 to £88,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £76965.00 - £88682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Location: | Norwich, NR1 2DH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9246-26-0381 |
Summary
Establish and maintain a Trust-wide AHP professional governance framework Provide assurance on AHP professional standards, scope of practice and regulatory compliance Ensure effective systems for supervision, competency, credentialing and registration support Lead or oversee professional reviews relating to incidents, complaints and conduct concerns involving AHP staff Advise on professional risk, safe staffing and safe scope of practice To ensure that Allied health Professional staff have a clear professional development pathway that meets national guidelines To work with Trust educational governance processes to ensure a multi-professional approach to standards within clinical education Promote an AHP research and innovation culture Support audit, research and service evaluation activity Develop academic and research partnerships Encourage dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practice Accountability for own AHP practice as set out in policies by maintaining responsibility for own professional development, by undertaking appropriate supervision, training and appraisals Maintain records as appropriate Demonstrate reflective practice, using analytical skills and determine professional and personal training requirements Contribute and promote Safeguarding of Adults and Safeguarding of Children across the Trust Extensive post qualifying experience and current or past experience as an AHP. Demonstrate wide range of professional knowledge across service lines and specialist knowledge of national and local policy and legislation. Recent CPD activity and demonstration of working with local universities in role as an AHP. Ability to manoeuvre through complex situations and focus on agreed outcomes and decisions within a system of competing demands and views. Provide professional opinion in professional investigations and incident reviews. Plan and prioritise multiple and competing work streams with minimal supervision Negotiation, proactive partnership working and leadership skills required to work with a range of senior managers and clinicians across agencies. To be a member of relevant trust wide management meetings To support and advise the Senior Operational Team, locality and service managers on ensuring AHP performance indicators are met within the Trust Lead development and delivery of the Trust AHP Strategy and Programme of Work aligned to Trust and ICS priorities Provide senior professional advice to the Director of Psychological Therapies, AHPs and Social Workers on AHP matters Ensure AHP contribution is embedded in transformation, pathway redesign and new models of care Represent AHPs within Trust-wide and system-level strategic forums Act as senior ambassador and advocate for AHP professions Lead AHP workforce strategy and career framework development Support advanced practice, consultant practice and extended scope roles Work with HR, OD and Education teams on recruitment and retention strategies Develop AHP leadership pipelines and succession planning Strengthen placement, preceptorship and HEI partnerships Lead AHP contribution to quality improvement and clinical effectiveness programmes Promote use of audit, outcome measures and benchmarking data Support services to evidence AHP impact and value Contribute to Trust quality and safety governance structure Act as Trust lead for advice, guidance, support in relation to AHP work practice and services, using their own specialist knowledge.