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Archives for January 2020

23rd January 2020 by BAPO

Apprentiship Roadshow

Information Events:

Making AHP Apprenticeships happen

What to expect

  • Learn how apprenticeships are being implemented across the Allied Health Professions
  • Update on national procurement of training providers
  • Opportunity to work across the system to support the implementation of apprenticeships
  • Learn how to use apprenticeships to grow your own workforce

 

When, where and HOW

·        York, Double Tree by Hilton 28th January 2020

Email claire.farrelly@hee.nhs.uk

·        Birmingham, The Cube 6th February 2020

Email natasha.pisarski@heartofengland.nhs.uk

·        Taunton Rugby Club Thursday 27th February 2020

Email  Alexander.Websdale@hee.nhs.uk

·        Cambridge, Hilton City Centre 4th March 2020

Email  natasha.pisarski@heartofengland.nhs.uk

·        London,  De Vere West One, 9-10 Portland Place 10th March 2020

Email Devon.Puttick@hee.nhs.uk

 

ALL AHPS* WELCOME AND PLEASE BRING A LOCAL LEAD ON EDUCATION OR APPRENTICESHIPS

*AHPs | Allied Health Professions are: art therapists, dramatherapists, music therapists, chiropodists/podiatrists, dietitians, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, orthoptists, osteopaths, prosthetists and orthotists, paramedics, physiotherapists, diagnostic radiographers, therapeutic radiographers, speech and language therapists

Filed Under: Education, News

16th January 2020 by BAPO

Tech of the Year

Filed Under: Conference, News

15th January 2020 by BAPO

#AllourHealth Student Week

#AllOurHealth are running a FAB new student week from the 20th-25th Jan

#AllOurHealth focuss on preventing illness, protecting health, and promoting wellbeing and how it applies to all of our roles. Our collective efforts of increasing our focus on these evidence based interventions really do make a huge difference in prevention illness, reducing premature death and reducing unacceptable health inequalities.

Public Health England’s (PHE) All Our Health framework is a call to action to all health and care professionals to embed prevention within their day to day practice. The All Our Health educational materials, tools and resources that have been developed to help health and care professionals make huge impacts in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing.  The free and open access WeLearn #AllOurHealth Virtual Student event is a WeCommunities and PHE collaboration that uses social media to engage students about the All Our Health Framework and how it is relevant to their role

 To find out more about the student event, and about the wider programme of activity that is open to all health and care professionals (both qualified and students) click HERE > http://www.wecommunities.org/blogs/3526

And to register to take part in the WeLearn #AllOurHealth Virtual Student Event click HERE > http://www.wecommunities.org/blogs/3520

(Registration does require a Twitter account, you can find out how to sign up to Twitter HERE and how you can use this for CPD)

Filed Under: Education, News

15th January 2020 by BAPO

SIHED Update

This is the January 2020 SIHED Update
GP surgery waiting rooms’ poster update

The I See The Difference (ISTD) campaign has 500 A3 posters entitled ‘Looking for a career that will make a difference?’ and 100,000 leaflets distributed in selected areas in national GP surgery waiting rooms. The campaign started in November 2019 and will continue until the end of February. So far (data received 20/12/19) we’ve had 4000 leaflets picked up by the public and expect awareness of AHPs to reach 5 million patients during this time. Here are some examples of feedback we have received so far from patients…

 

‘I think it’s a really interesting career idea’

‘Great timing as I am looking at podiatry’

‘Very good idea. I asked my doctor about it as I need a career change’

‘I will look at their website to find out more about it’

‘I questioned my doctor about it and researched it’

 

Did you see ISTD in The Times and The Guardian? 

Recently (in the run up to the UCAS deadline in January) we’ve been pushing our campaign further to increase our reach. Below are some examples of our campaign raising awareness of AHP careers in the Guardian (a digital banner ad) and The Times (an advertorial in print).

Health professionals are creative too!

CUREate is an Office for Students funded project that seeks to raise awareness of the health professions amongst those with creative backgrounds and encourage entry into university-level study.

Recently launched, CUREate seeks to prompt conversations about what the health and creative disciplines have in common. This is to challenge established notions about entry routes into health, both at an institutional and personal level, and encourage entry at a time of transformation.

The Cureate project has received funding from the Office for Students, SIHED (Strategic Interventions in Health Education Disciplines) programme’s Challenge Fund. This funding is to support existing or prospective providers of nursing, midwifery and allied health courses for innovative projects that would support the recruitment or delivery of these subjects.

Visit Cureate website 

Let’s recap…

The I See The Difference digital campaign attracted over 100,000 users to the website last year (from July 2019 onwards).

This year we will continue to build on this, with face to face events, our outreach efforts and by providing webinars to career advisors. As we start to think about the legacy of the project, we are keen to hear ideas for future use of resources, as well as digital content – can you help?

Let us know if you can help

Emily and Chris join the team

We’re pleased to welcome our new Outreach Officers, Emily and Chris, replacing Charlotte and Ali who were promoted into their new roles. Chris will be focusing his efforts on recruitment for Podiatry, Prosthetics and Orthotics across England. Emily is based at Sheffield University helping to raise awareness of Orthoptics across England.

Nursing students to receive £5000 payment a year

Before Christmas it was announced all nursing students on courses from September 2020 will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back. The funding will be given to all new and continuing degree-level nursing, midwifery and many allied health students from September 2020. It is expected to benefit more than 35,000 students every year. This is great news for students hoping to enrol onto AHP courses. The I See The Difference funding page will be going through some changes to reflect this news and provide more information about funding options.

Find out more

Filed Under: Education, News

15th January 2020 by BAPO

CAHPR Research Practitioner Framework

CAHPR has recently published a framework of research practitioner competencies to support practitioners, managers, educators and leaders to review and plan practitioner roles, activity and support systems within a range of practice settings.

The framework describes the knowledge and skills required of allied health professionals (AHPs) working in research from basic competency to advanced and research leadership levels.

The generation and application of research should be embedded in health and social care practice in order to improve services, promote health, wellbeing and safety of service users, and to optimise the effective use of resources. This new resource offers a practical framework to support making research ‘core business’ to practice whilst also forging pathways and career progression for AHPs to become leaders in the field of applied health research.

The framework is available on the CAHPR website at: https://bit.ly/2sp2X4Z.

 

Filed Under: News, Research

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