Are you an AHP from a BAME or ethnically diverse background in AFC pay scales 6-8c?

December 9, 2024

Do you have future aspirations to progress into a senior allied health professional role? Would you benefit from leadership development to support your career development and future aspirations?

If the answer is yes, the Ethnic Minority Allied Health Professional Leadership Programme aims to provide holistic, bespoke professional leadership support for aspiring ethnic minority allied health professionals with aspirations to progress to a senior leadership role.

The 12-month programme is aligned to the current national and regional priorities from the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS People Plan, Chief AHP BAME Strategic Advisory Group and the NHS EDI Improvement Plan.

The programme will include the following activities for Allied Health Professionals related to the following topics:

•Understanding your leadership style
•Board leadership and political awareness
•Clinical Governance Quality and Safety
•Communicating and presenting with impact
•Leading beyond boundaries
•Leading with authenticity as an ethnically diverse leader
•Career management
•Action Learning Sets
•Group coaching

The programme will combine online leadership modules from the NHS Leadership Academy with other activities including – group coaching, action learning sets, sponsorship, self-reflection and career management.

Applications are open from Tuesday 3 December to Wednesday 8 December 12pm, all modules will be delivered virtually via MS Teams and participants must be able to attend all of the modules to successfully complete the programme and be awarded with a certificate of completion. Please read the information pack which provides further details about the programme. Completed applications should be emailed to bcicb.workforce@nhs.net no later than Wednesday 8 January 12pm.

AHP Ethnic Minority Leadership Programme Positive Action FAQs

AHP BAME Leadership programme Application Pack November 24

For further queries please contact Stuart.Milton@nhs.net or Sabrina.Richards2@nhs.net