Building Advanced Practice on Firm Foundations

The Allied Health Academy is pleased to present the AHP Global Advanced Practice Collective's third free webinar, following on from the September session which explored Advanced Clinical Practice within the UK, with England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

This webinar, chaired by Susan Nancarrow, CEO of HealthWork International, will continue the conversation to progress the collective collaboration and learning integral to creating an environment for AHP advanced practice to thrive.

This webinar will feature five presenters who will be sharing about the enablers required to support success for established advanced practice roles:

Strategic policy facing enablement related to service pathway modernisation - Beverley Harden (Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for England, and Health Education England's Allied Health Professions Lead)
Clear business planning to underpin the thinking behind the desired service change and need for the roles at local level - Luke Cunningham and Jennifer Lloyd (Workforce Change - NHSE)
Building supervisor capability and capacity to support the education, training and role development and transition - Deborah Harding (Professor of Learning and Innovation for Practice, St George's University of London)
Collaboration with education to develop meaningful education and training pathways to support a recognisable pipeline of future clinicians - Melanie Clarkson (Association of Advanced Practice Educators UK - Global Educators Network)

The session will include dedicated Q&A time.

Join us on 28 November 2023 at 10am UK / 9PM AEDT for this important discussion led by Professor Beverley Harden, who established the Centre for Advancing Practice for Health Education England (now part of NHS England).

Speakers:

Chair: Dr Susan Nancarrow, CEO HealthWork International & The Allied Health Academy
Susan is an allied health professional, health services researcher, recovering academic, and the Chair of the Allied Health Assistants' National Association (AHANA). Susan has more than twenty years' experience of international health services research, expertise and analysis, with a particular interest in the health workforce, models of health service organisation and delivery and the sociology of the professions.

Speaker: Professor Beverley Harden, Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for England, and Health Education England’s Allied Health Professions Lead
In a career spanning more than 30 years, Professor Harden is recognised nationally as an accomplished health service leader with both operational and strategic leadership experience. Professor Harden has led a variety of large multi-professional healthcare services, NHS trust education services, and complex service and workforce transformations across systems. Since 2018, she has led work in her current role across England to enable employers to realise the full workforce potential of the fifteen allied health professions, secure and grow the future workforce, and develop the skilled allied health support, assistant practitioner and technician workforce. In 2021, Professor Harden established the Centre for Advancing Practice to bring together clinical and education experts from across all professions, to develop educational and career pathways for enhanced, advanced and consultant-level practice. This is enabling more highly skilled staff to pursue more inclusive clinical career opportunities as advanced and consultant practitioners.

Speakers: Luke Cunningham & Jennifer Lloyd

Luke Cunningham and Jennifer Lloyd were Workforce Transformation Associates in the South West of England Advancing Practice Faculty. During their time in this team, they focused specifically on workforce development for the Allied Health Professions and development of information and resources to increase AHP expansion into Advanced Practice. Both based in Cornwall, Luke is Professional Lead for Dietetics and Critical Care Lead Dietitian and Jennifer is Professional Lead for Speech and Language Therapy.

Speaker: Professor Deborah Harding, Professor of Learning and Innovation for Practice at St George's University of London

Deborah is Professor of Learning and Innovation for Practice at St George’s, University of London and Multiprofessional Supervision Subject Matter Expert in the Centre for Advancing Practice, NHS England. Her teaching and research are underpinned by her comprehensive experience in health and social care practice, management and leadership across a range of settings. She is a speech and language therapist by profession. Deborah’s PhD research explored supervision for the allied health professions (AHPs). She has led projects for a variety of NHS England programmes of work including evaluation and guidance for NHS England’s Chief Allied Health Professions' Officer's team on the development of AHP leadership across the NHS in England and guidance for multiprofessional workplace supervision for the Centre for Advancing Practice. She is supporting the implementation of Educator Workforce Strategy priorities as enablers for the growth of the healthcare workforce as set out in the NHS England Long Term Workforce Plan.

Speaker: Melanie Clarkson, Association of Advanced Practice Educators UK - Global Educators Network

Melanie qualified from the University of Central England in Birmingham as a Therapeutic Radiographer in 1999, after completing placement at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. She spent her clinical career at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough until she left clinical practice in 2014 to become a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). She is currently a Principal Lecturer in Advancing Practice for AHP’s at SHU, and the programme lead for the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) Radiotherapy and Oncology. Within NHS England she is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Therapeutic Radiography advancing practice for the Cancer and Diagnostics team, and a reviewer at the Centre for Advancing Practice for credentials, and programme accreditation. Within the College of Radiographers, she is a member of the Radiotherapy Advisory Group (RAG), assessor and member of the Accreditation and Approval Board (AAB) and chair of the special interest group (SIG) for Advancing Practice in Therapeutic Radiography. She is an elected committee member within the Association of Advanced Practice Educators (AAPE), representing Therapeutic Radiographers and AHPs, and the international lead the community of practice for AAPE. Currently, she is also leading on the non-surgical oncology advanced practice curriculum framework and the enhanced level practice schema for Therapeutic Radiographers.

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