The Allied Healthcare Professional Career Pathway helps to identify the opportunities for career progression in the AHP professions.

Click on this link to see our AHP Career Pathway 

Herefordshire & Worcestershire ICS AHP Faculty (youtube.com)

An overview of the outputs from the AHP faculty

Allied Health Professionals - A Universe of Opportunities for your AHP career (youtube.com)

This Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) animation and careers resource “AHPs A Universe of Opportunities” by Health Education England (HEE) aims to inspire, motivate and unleash an often untapped talent amongst Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) across the country. To find out more please visit our AHP careers resource https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/ahp

How to attract, recruit and retain podiatrists to transform your service.
Employers in the NHS are facing challenges with recruiting and retaining podiatrists. Developing the podiatry workforce is vital if the NHS is to provide patients with the necessary podiatric care they require at the right time with the right skills at the right level. Central to this development is the need for services to fully utilise the skill mix that is available to them. Podiatry services are provided by a range of clinical staff from the support workforce to advanced (also known as ACP) and consultant level practitioners. In developing services, patient safety is paramount.

Employers' guide to podiatry | NHS Employers

 
AHP Support Worker competency, education and career development framework, to maximise the contribution of the AHP support
workforce to delivering safe and effective care- AHP - Website Content - Allied Health Professions’ Support Worker Competency, Education and Career Development Framework.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)
 
For further information about Apprenticeships please click here. 
 
To find out more about entry requirements and career pathways for the AHP support workforce please click here. 

AHP Support Worker entry requirements

During the course of your career, you may not practise your profession for a period of time. This may be for many reasons, which could include parental leave, extended travel, caring responsibilities or illness.

We know that you may want to come back to your profession and resume practising, which is why the health and care professions council have set up a process.

For information about the process you need to complete if you are returning to practice after a break of more than two years please click on the link below.

Returning to practice | (hcpc-uk.org)

Allied Health Professionals - Return to practice webinar (youtube.com)

The NHS Long Term plan sets out the challenges facing all Health and Social Care Professions which can only be met by having a workforce of the right size with the right skills.  Ethical International Recruitment is a vital component of expanding the AHP workforce to deliver the Long Term Plan vision. Recruitment of well trained and committed internationally educated AHP’s with an ethical and sustainable approach, can increase entry routes into healthcare, and provide a wealth of experience and diversity to our workforce. 
 
Please see the ICS AHP guide for IR document below. 
 
‘NHS Employers’ link for further information on AHP recruitment: Recruitment of overseas allied health professionals | NHS Employers

This library has been developed to support NHS & social care staff working across all sectors in meeting their professional & regulatory requirements for delivering high quality education within their workplace. Developing educator skills is a vital step in ensuring that learners at all levels are adequately supervised and receive effective training.

The training opportunities listed in this library are what is currently available and covers a range of self-directed, asynchronous, learning activities of varying duration / commitment. They are broadly appropriate for any health and social care profession to work through as a means of upskilling, developing and cementing skills as a clinical educator / supervisor.

To find out more click the link below

Multiprofessional Educator Learning Library

AHP educator and career framework: Designed for all AHPs at all career stages, this framework seeks to support a sustainable and high-quality educator workforce both in practice and in academic settings. 

AHP Educator Career Framework | Council of Deans of Health

To coincide with Allied Health Professional (AHP) day on 14 October, the Simulation and Immersive Technologies team have refreshed the AHP - Virtual Reality Insight Videos catalogue on Learning Hub. 

As the third-largest clinical workforce in health and care, AHPs are crucial in supporting and delivering care. These virtual reality videos provide an insight into what a typical day looks like for some of the 14 allied health professions. These include: 

• Podiatry 

• Orthoptics 

• Prosthetics and orthotics 

• Therapeutic radiography 

• Dietetics 

• Speech and Language Therapy 

• And the newly added Operation Department Practitioner 360-degree video learning resource. 
You can find out more by visiting the AHP - Virtual Reality Insight Videos page.