The British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists

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One Year On – The SIHED programme and I See The Difference campaign

                                      

The SIHED (Strategic Interventions in Health Education Disciplines) programme is a £3m, three-year initiative to help build the sustainability of the allied health professions (AHPs). A big part of the programme, the I See the Difference campaign, has been developed to include lots of helpful information about AHPs on the website, currently alongside social media channels such as @icthedifference Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The digital campaign is also backed up by a large amount of outreach activities at schools and careers events across England.

More programme updates include:

  • The Challenge Fund – In year one, six higher education projects were funded which focus on supporting the recruitment and retention of existing and new students of podiatry and therapeutic radiography. Find out more about the providers and projects here. As we begin year two, we have launched a second challenge fund with a wider remit and a budget of £400,000. Successful bid winners will be announced in the coming months.
  • The British and Irish Orthoptic Society (BIOS) are working on a project to facilitate work shadowing opportunities in orthoptics.
  • A funded fixed-term role to increase capacity for prosthetics and orthotics work placements, allowing more students to study the subject.
  • Two research projects. The first report looked into the barriers to mature student engagementin healthcare, and how to address them. See report here
  • We are currently working with another research company who are completing a study of male participation in nursing and allied health (NMAH). The report will seek to understand current differences in male participation to different NMAH disciplines to help understand and overcome barriers.

Some of our achievements in Year One of the campaign and programme include:

  • More than 11,000 people visited the campaign website, 90% were new users. This equated to 19,637 page views
  • A direct email campaign to 2500 secondary schools was undertaken, with 772 emails opened, equated to an open rate of 30.9%
  • Attending more than 100 events including presentations to schools and smaller career fairs. Reaching 1700 students, families, teachers and careers advisors at large scale events and receiving 236 requests for school outreach at these events.

Also, visit the I See The Difference website for more information about the campaign.

Get in touch with the team, info@iseethedifference.co.uk, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

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HCPC Visitor

We are seeking Prosthetists/Orthotists to undertake the role of Visitor.

What do Visitors do?
Tracey Samuel-Smith, HCPC Education Manager explains ‘Visitors are responsible for visiting and assessing existing and proposed education and training programmes delivered by education providers.
Visitors make a real difference to the work we do. There is the opportunity to get involved and help to safeguard people using our registrant’s services by ensuring education and training programmes meet our standards. Visitors also provide recommendations to the HCPC’s Education and Training Committee regarding the approval of programmes.’

Visitors must be current registrants and should have an understanding of Quality Assurance in Higher/Further Education or a clinical environment, as well as teaching, learning and assessment in an educational or clinical environment. We in particular invite those who are currently experienced in supervising students in their current workplace to apply for this role.

We pay a rate of £202 per day and £81 for a review. Any travel and accommodation expenses are paid in accordance with the HCPC Expenses Policy.

We expect visitors to commit to around 5 days per year. The length and notice for providing services are variable and can fit most diary commitments and working patterns.

If you are successful, you will be required to attend mandatory training prior to commencing your role.

The HCPC is committed to equality of opportunity and actively guards against unfair discrimination on any grounds (including sexual orientation, religion or beliefs, race, sex, age, gender reassignment, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity or disability).

Closing date for applications: 05 June at 10am
Tentative interview dates: 15 and 16 July, and w/c 22 July
Compulsory training day:: 28 and 29 November 2019

Advert for P/O VisitorDownload

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AHP Public Health Strategy

Today marks the publication of two new strategy documents for AHPs.

The first is a Public Health Impact Report, this report is a joint publication by Public Health England and the AHP Federation.  It is available on the AHPF web site: http://www.ahpf.org.uk/Publications_and_Speeches.htm or downloadable below:

AHP Public Health Strategy_Impact ReportDownload

The second is the strategic Framework which goes with this document and is downloadable here:

UK AHP Public Health Strategic Framework 2019-2024Download

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NICE Opportunity

NICE are recruiting for members to join the Osteoarthritis update guideline committee. All the information about the role including how to apply can be found at the link below:

https://www.nice.org.uk/get-involved/our-committees/join-a-committee/member–osteoarthritis-guideline-update-committee

The following roles are being advertised:

  • a GP
  • a consultant rheumatologist
  • 2 physiotherapists
  • an orthopaedic surgeon
  • an occupational therapist
  • a geriatrician/general physician with an interest in osteoarthritis
  • a musculoskeletal service commissioner
  • a clinical pharmacist
  • an orthotist or podiatrist

Please note the closing date for applications is 31st May 5pm.

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Doctoral School Opportunities

Up to 10 fully funded, four-year PhD studentships are available in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics, commencing in October 2019. The CDT in Prosthetics and Orthotics will build a world leading engineering and physical science workforce to help ensure that “no one is left behind”.

The CDT provides training that supports exciting careers in a global healthcare industry that meets the needs of diverse user groups and stakeholders. The CDT combines expertise from the University of Salford, Imperial College London, University of Strathclyde and the University of Southampton, with more than 25 industry partners and national facilities. Our industry partners estimate a demand for our graduates is measured in the hundreds.

Key elements of the EPSRC CDT in Prosthetics & Orthotics include:

•             Ambitious PhD projects that blend high quality training with practical experiences that enhance employability.

•             Training in research skills relevant to prosthetics, orthotics and the wider healthcare technology industry.

•             Integrated training in engineering, physical, medical and clinical sciences, as well as business, entrepreneurial and other professional skills.

•             Opportunities to work on research projects directly with industry and users, and understand the journey from user need to product or service implementation. Interested? For more information of this exciting opportunity please visit https://www.salford.ac.uk/research/doctoral-training-in-prosthetics-and-orthotic/home or email CDT@Salford.ac.uk. Applications close at 4pm 20th May 2019.

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CAPHR / Research

CAPHR helps promote research at all levels and is currently advertising two schemes which may be useful for new professors or post-doctoral researchers.

Academy of Medical Science Professorship Scheme.
The Academy of Medical Sciences is delighted to announce the inaugural call for applications to its Professorship Scheme. Working in partnership with UK Higher Education Institutions, we will be providing an attractive package of support to biomedical and healthcare researchers taking up their first full Professorship. Deadline 17 May 2019.

https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/grant-schemes/academy-of-medical-sciences-professorship-scheme

NIHR Advanced Fellowship
The Advanced Fellowship is for those at a post-doctoral level and aimed at several specific points of a researcher’s career development. The fellowship is between 2 and 5 years and can be completed on full-time or part-time basis. Between 50% and 100% whole time equivalent (WTE).
Advanced Fellowships will be available with a ‘clinical academic’ option whereby clinical applicants will have the option to request up to 40% of their time be dedicated to clinical service/development which would be covered by the Fellowship. Deadline 4 June 2019.

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-research-community/NIHR-academy/nihr-training-programmes/fellowship-programme/nihr-advanced-fellowship.htm

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Anti-Bullying

BAPO is proud to be a part of a new anti-bullying alliance, supporting and sharing ideas and promoting resources and support systems

Bulling has no place in healthcare or the NHS, and it negatively effects staff, services and patients. BAPO are strongly committed to supporting our P&O professionals alongside the wider healthcare environment to erradicate bullying

For more information and resources see the Anti-Bulling document below

AntiBullying AllianceDownload

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A Digital Framework for Allied Health Professionals

“This year we have seen the NHS long term plan explicitly identify that digitally enabled care will go mainstream across the NHS to improve population health and support healthcare professionals. This is supported by the recently published Topol review recommendations, asking NHS staff to make the most of innovative technologies such as genomics, digital medicine, artificial intelligence and robotics to improve services. As allied health professions (AHPs) we have an individual and collective responsibility to play a role in the development of these digital and data capabilities, anticipating the challenges and realising the benefits.

Enabling AHPs to use information and technology is therefore one of 4 priorities in AHPs into Action. A Digital Framework for Allied Health Professionals – Key foundations for future clinical practice supports local services and AHPs to make that happen and works towards services that are both paper-free at the point of care and connected to other services and systems.

I would encourage you to share, discuss and use this framework with your members and networks. Together we can ensure we deliver digital and data enabled AHP services for the benefit of citizens and the wider health and care system.”

Kind regards,
Suzanne Rastrick
Chief Allied Health Professions Officer
NHS England

A Digital Framework for Allied Health ProfessionalsDownload

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E-Learning, Public Health and Returning to Work

The new Work and Health e-learning programme, developed by Public Health England and Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare, helps healthcare professionals to recognise the value in talking to patients about work.

The e-learning will support them to make brief interventions such as discussing the health benefits of work with patients, talking about return to work and advising on adjustments at work.

Good work is crucial to good health – in fact, unemployment increases the risk of early death by 63%.  Healthcare professionals can play a key role in helping patients to improve their health outcomes by remaining in or returning to work.

In recognition of the impact that work can have on our health, the Association of Medical Royal Colleges, the Royal College of Nursing and the Allied Health Professions Federation have published a Health and Work Consensus Statement for Action – this sets out a commitment to support healthcare professionals in supporting this agenda.

For more information about the e-learning programme and details of how to access it visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/work-and-health/.



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BAPO Strategy Event

Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled .
Many thanks to all those who were interested in taking part.

Our profession exists in a constantly changing environment. With improvements in technology, surgery and changing health profile for our populations, rehabilitation has been revolutionised over the last 20 years and will continue to adopt new procedures and components to maximise the outcomes for our service users. BAPO has created a strategy document for our association but we should also be looking forward to the future for the profession.

What’s on the horizon in the UK and the NHS?
Do our clinicians of the future need to have different skills?
Does our training need to change to anticipate this in our undergraduate programmes and post graduate CPD?

BAPO is creating a long term strategy for the next ten years for P&O to direct work and projects to ensure our profession is ready for the future, and we need your help.
To facilitate this, we are holding an event for all members to consider how we best structure our activities in the coming years. The event will include presentations from those involved in setting strategy in health economics, rehabilitation services, technology and healthcare generally. Following the presentations, you will be invited to contribute to group discussions to consider how these may impact on our own strategy. The day will conclude with bringing together the results of those discussions to help create a draft document of what our strategy may be.

We see this as an important event in giving you, the membership, an opportunity to help steer the future of our profession.

We look forward to meeting you on the day and very much hope as many as possible will attend the event.

Please fill in the below for or contact the Secretariat to confirm you attendance

BAPO Strategy FlyerDownload