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Allied Health Professional National Workforce Lead (Ref: 032551)
Healthcare Staffing Programme, NMAHP Directorate
Part time Secondment opportunity (0.4wte) until October 2022
Remuneration will be commensurate with current salary
Initially home based with travel throughout Scotland
The Healthcare Staffing Programme has a requirement for an Allied Health Professional National Workforce Lead to join their growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of the Health & Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019.
The programme team is working with Health Boards across Scotland to support improvement in workload and workforce planning in line with new staffing legislation. The post holder will work with them and a range of stakeholders to lead the development, testing and implementation of workforce tools for AHP services across Scotland, taking into account the need for multi-professional approaches and digital solutions to reduce the data capture burden.
The key outcome of this work is to enable workforce decisions that will ensure that at all times, suitably qualified and competent individuals from a range of professional disciplines, are working in such numbers as are appropriate for the health, wellbeing and safety of patients or service users, and the provision of high-quality health care for individuals across Scotland.
We are looking for an Allied Health Professional with strong communication and interpersonal skills as well as expert working knowledge in AHP workload and workforce planning. The post holder must have an ability to devise, implement and monitor a range of engagement strategies to ensure AHPs across Scotland and Professional Bodies are actively engaged to support the work of the Healthcare Staffing Programme
Please note that applicants for this post must be an Allied Health Professional registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
For an informal discussion about this post please contact Andrew Moore, Head of Healthcare Staffing Programme, at Healthcare Improvement Scotland on 07909 981 997.
Closing Date: Midnight 18th October 2020
It is anticipated that interviews will be held online using MS Teams on 28 and 29 October.