Director of Allied Health Professionals | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Southend University Hospital NHS Trust
Salary:	£112,782 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Chelmsford, CM1 7ET
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

As our Director of AHPs you will be the Trust-wide professional lead for Allied Health Professionals across Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, providing visible, expert professional leadership across all sites where AHP services are delivered, ensuring services are delivered consistently to a high standard for the population of Mid and South Essex and beyond whereappropriate.

In this role you will set the strategic direction for AHP professional practice, ensuring that AHP contribution is embedded in the Trust clinical strategy, quality strategy, workforce plans, productivity programmes, transformation prioritiesand system partnerships. You will provide board and executive-level assurance on AHP quality, safety, workforce, education, professionalstandards and regulatory matters, including the triangulation of patient, staff, performance, financial, quality and professional intelligence.

In your role you will be accountable to the Chief Nurse for the development,implementation and assurance of AHP professional standards, professional governance, workforce strategy, education, research, improvementand clinical quality across the organisation, working closely with the Chief Nursing Officer and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer to ensure services meet the required standards.

Your role as Director of AHPs will include being

• the responsible lead to ensure that the patient and staff voice is heard and listened to in the development of services and delivery of care, exercising skills of professional curiosity and appropriate challenge.

• able to communicatehighly complexand highly contentious information to a wide range of key stakeholders across MSEFT and the wider healthcare system, using advance skills where there may be barriers to understanding.

• responsible for delivering excellent performance against key quality standards and targets and for taking corrective action when required.

• working in partnership with our Hospital DoNs and colleagues across the ICS to improve the model of care and experience of patients with acute physical needs and concurrent mental health illness developing a framework to ensure consistent safe practice and supply of appropriately skills staff.

• accountable and responsible forleading on the programme of activity and leadon specific initiatives on related AHP and professional matters.

• providing strategic leadership and support to managing AHPs in difficulty with their respective regulators.

• working with the Director of Nursing for Workforce and Professional Standards ensure accurate records are maintainedand action taken that upholds the relevant professional codes of conduct.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached Job Description.

We look forward to your application!

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.

This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Sep 2026

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