Leadership Placements

Janice is the 2021/2022 Clinical Fellow to the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) at NHS England. Janice has been qualified for twenty years as a diagnostic radiographer. During this time, she has had a varied career working for the NHS, private sector and within academia. Janice’s CAHPO clinical fellowship project involved developing the next Allied Health Professions strategy, focusing on capturing the voices of people and communities across England. The project team has used a mixed-methods approach to achieve this, with crowdsourcing being central to this activity. In total 21,000 contributions from 500 English postcodes together with workshops with underrepresented and digitally excluded communities were triangulated to current national policy to develop the next AHP Strategy for England: AHPs Deliver. Recently Janice was awarded a Professional Doctorate (Research in Health Professions Education) from Swansea University Medical School. Using a pragmatic embedded mixed methods action research approach, her work focused on how curriculum design tools and processes can encourage inclusive patient, and public co-creation in health professions education. Janice is also an Advance Higher Education Senior Fellow.

AHP practice-based learning: shaping the future

David is an occupational therapist with BSc(Hons) Occupational therapy and an MSc in Practice Development by research. He is a trainee executive level coach. David has 20 years clinical experience in mental health services and over 20 years in leadership roles at Trust, ICS, regional and national AHP positions. David has been involved in AHP education from registration. David current holds a role in NHSE/I as a Senior AHP Workforce Improvement Lead.

The 4 Pillars of Practice

Tamsin is a chartered physiotherapist and is currently an Education Adviser at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. Since graduating in 2004, she has held a number of clinical, leadership and education roles. She specialised clinically in MSK for 13 years where she lead teams in primary care settings and both developed and delivered workforce development programmes to upskill others in this setting. Tamsin completed a Fellowship at Health Education England in 2019 representing AHPs in the North of England on the RePAIR project. She is naturally inquisitive and has always been incredibly passionate about supporting students in practice and shaping their skills to address modern healthcare challenges. She lead the project to develop the Common Placement Assessment Form at the CSP and is currently developing placement principles to support educators in practice.

Research Placements

Hannah is a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist and the Clinical Therapies Research Lead at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Hannah currently holds a NIHR/HEE Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship and is a national and international mentor to AHPs aspiring to develop clinical academic careers. Hannah has led the first two research placements for AHPs at Doncaster and Bassetlaw and is passionate about promoting the value of clinical research.

Giving a vote of thanks to our practice partners on behalf of the University.

Previously David was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Keele (2009-2016), and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Canterbury Christ Church University (2016-2019). Prior to his time at Keele, David was a senior member of staff at the University of Sheffield, where he founded the Bakhtin Centre and held a wide range of leadership roles, including Head of the School of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Director of Research for Arts and Humanities, and Director of the Humanities Research Institute. A Russianist by background, he has published extensively on Russian literature, culture and cultural theory.

Extended scope placements in primary care.

Helen has worked as an Occupational Therapist for 28 years in a range of clinical settings. In 2020 she moved into a new post in Primary Care, Sheffield. She has built on her knowledge of health inequalities during a fellowship year with Health Education England, completing a course with The Kings Fund 'Leadership for Population Health'. This knowledge has assisted her in developing her role in Primary care, linking with community services, and creating new opportunities for AHP students.

Speaking about Digital Clinical Placements: Scaling Up.

Alison and her team re-modelled clinical education, at the commencement of the Covid-19 pandemic, to ensure bio-security, improved access to clinical training and increased capacity utilising a high quality, meticulously designed education model. Investment from Health Education England (CPEP funding), and strengthened digital accessibility across the NHS, mobilised Alison and her team to offer a ‘front loaded’ digital clinical placement, preparing students for their specialised placements. Delivery was supported by the use of coaching and leadership frameworks to empower learners in their journey. The team were awarded the Creative Provision of Placements Award at The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) National Awards, in 2021. This education model is now mapped across two radiotherapy placements and a nursing / AHP combined placement. Since their inception one year ago, the programmes have increased placement capacity by an additional two weeks for over 800 pre-registration learners, while boosting self-assessed learner growth across technical and professional capabilities.

Katie qualified from SHU as a Physiotherapist in 2017, and since then has worked in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. She worked as a band 5 for 2 years and now works within the surgical division as a rotational respiratory B6.

She supports the student development project alongside other colleagues, in the delivery of student placements and ongoing plans for the future.

Elizabeth Julian

Student Led Clinical Environment

Elizabeth Julian trained as an Occupational Therapist at Brunel University, qualifying in 2002. She has been lucky enough to work for many years in some fantastic multi-disciplinary teams in relatively niche practice areas such as Renal Outreach and HIV Outpatients. Since November 2021 she has been seconded into a new role of Therapies Practice Placement Manager at University Hospitals Birmingham, which she is thoroughly enjoying.