AHP Day Resources

Resources to Support National AHP Day

AHP Day Logo's

Click and download the image. You can brand your marketing materials and/or use within your email signature?

A huge THANK YOU to the 374 people that voted over on the @WeAHPs Twitter poll. The winner with 30% of the vote was design option 1.

AHP Pin Badges

We are delighted that Badge Plus are working with us as the provider of the AHP Pin Badges. If you'd like to order an #AHPsDay badge then please email sales@badgesplus.co.uk or ben@badgesplus.co.uk


Wednesday 22nd September 2020AHP’s day HQ have recently received feedback regarding the AHP’s badge that had been designed for AHPs day 2020. As a result, AHPs day, as a movement, is withdrawing support for the rainbow design badge and logo.The rainbow design was chosen to signify the rainbow of hope that has been associated with the NHS’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic in recent months. We are very sorry for any upset or offence caused to our LGBTQ+ colleagues in using the rainbow design and are extremely grateful to them for reaching out and expressing their discomfort, which we have carefully considered. Through this process, we have gained a better understanding of what the LGBTQ+ pride flag represents and why the LGBTQ+ community wants to ensure its message and the safety it provides is not diluted. Further information about the NHS Pride flag can be found hereThe badges intention was to mark an unprecedented year with AHPs rising to the challenges faced. Refreshed designs for the 2020 AHPs day badge were presented via a Twitter poll. The new badges are now ready to order from the same supplier.We appreciate that some of you will have already purchased badges but hope you can understand our reasoning for the change. This learning provides a real opportunity for us as AHPs to listen and support the inclusivity of all our fellow AHPs, colleagues and wider LGBTQ+ community.

Why not ake a picture of local areas of interest and adapt to reflect National AHPs day.

Podcasting

A great Powerpoint resource here on why and how to create a podcast. A great way to engage an audience.

Your 'how to' on podcasting for AHPs Day.pptx
AHPs Day Tweetorial slides.pptx

Tweetorial

A great Powerpoint here on how and why to use Twitter to promote #AHPsDay

Please use the images below to help advertise some of the lesser known AHP professions.

Podiatry

Therapeutic Radiography

Prosthetics

Orthoptics

Prosthetics

talking heads .mp4

AHPsDay Goes Global!

It isn't just the UK where #AHPsDay is acknowledged.

Colleagues across the world are also joining in with the social movement.

#AHPsDay Australia -

Powerpoint Presentation explaining AHPs Day.

#AHPsDay poster

Get involved in the AHPs Day Photo challenge!

How would you demonstrate your AHP profession in an 'AHP' photo?

QR codes videos and careers.docx

Please click on the image to the left to see lots of attached QR codes, produced by Rotherham for #AHPsDay.

Please do print and put up around your departments.


Don't know what, or how a QR code works? Click Here

Give us an "A", give us an "H", give us a "P".. CHS Therapy Leads effort. #proudtobeH #AHPsday #wearelpt @LPTnhs @stephanier_o

With #AHPsDay fast approaching the therapy team at Swithland ward, Loughborough @lptnhs are getting inspired for a week long celebration

An interactive wall has been unveiled at the Royal Derby Hospital that patients, visitors and potential entrants into the professions can scan with their phones to find out more about some of UHDB’s “unsung heroes”.

The ‘Wall of Fame’ is the first of its kind in the NHS and can be used to provide extra information about the different Allied Health Professionals (AHP) and Healthcare Scientists (HCS) working across our hospitals. It is also part of the build up for the launch of UHDBs new AHP and HCS 5 year strategy and links to the upcoming National ‘AHP Day’, both due next month in October to continue to raise the profile and impact of AHPs.

Around 1,400 UHDB team members currently care for patients in a variety of different AHP and HCS roles across the Trust, with the fantastic work of these colleagues going slightly under the radar and many patients and future recruits being unaware of what they do.

The state-of-the-art interactive board, which is 18ft wide, will help raise awareness of these roles however, with hospital visitors able to scan a QR code next to a picture of an AHP or HCS colleague to be redirected to a webpage with more information about their profession, to help recruit more people into the roles.

UHDB is the first Trust in the UK to create such a display, with Natalie Matchett, AHP Practice Learning Facilitator, coming up with the idea after spotting something similar online at a hospital in Singapore.

Natalie, who is an Occupational Therapist, said: “This project has been about 12 months in the making, so it’s very surreal to see this idea now come to fruition and become a reality! Some of the AHP and HCS roles may be slightly unknown to a lot of people, so it’s fantastic that we now have a facility to give all of our patients and visitors access to more information about what we do. We’re very proud of all of our dedicated AHPs and HCS colleagues and are delighted that this display will give a voice to these unsung heroes and be a lasting legacy and tribute for our AHPs and HCS at UHDB”

Scanning one of the QR codes on the wall will direct you to a webpage detailing a typical day in the life of someone in that role, what patients and relatives might see whilst being treated by that member of staff and the different career paths someone would have to take in order to join the profession.

Improvements are already being planned to make the existing display more digitally attractive with an augmented reality app, so that when someone hovers their phone over the pictures, a video of an AHP or HCS will start playing where they will provide more information about their role.

Penny Owens, Director of AHPs at UHDB, said: “AHPs and HCS staff are no longer the minority but are in fact now the second largest workforce in the NHS, behind nurses, so it’s really important that we are able to put these professions on the map. We hope that the accessibility of the display and the digital element will allow us to raise awareness of these roles and also appeal to the next generation of students to consider a career working as an AHP or HCS.”

The Wall of Fame provides information on the unique talents of the Trust’s Occupational Therapists, Therapeutic Radiographers, Speech and Language Therapists, Orthoptists, Operating Department Practitioners, Dieticians, Healthcare Scientists, Prosthetists, Orthotists, Diagnostic Radiographers and Physiotherapists.

Prosthetist Gordon Wilson said: “I’m very proud to be representing one of our AHP professions as part of the new interactive display. A lot of people think of doctors and nurses when they think about the NHS but there are lots of different roles that the public may not know too much about, so I think it’s fantastic and very important that we raise awareness about the work of these colleagues.”

There are also plans to create more portable versions of the display, so that it can be taken to educate the public on the 11 different AHP and HCS professions at UHDB across each of our five hospitals, as well as at schools and other hospitals across Derbyshire.

Susan Spray, Programme Lead at Joined Up Careers Derbyshire, said: “We were so excited to learn about the Wall of Fame, which we believe will modernise and transform the way in which we engage with young people considering their career options and provides an innovative way to demonstrate the attractive proposition on offer from the NHS.”

The Royal Derby Hospital Wall of Fame can be found close to the main entrance, along the central corridor.

To scan the code on your phone, open your camera, hover over the code and select the drop down hyperlink that appears at the top of your phone screen. Should this fail, you can also download any QR Code Reader app from the app store.

Missing your AHP family?

The Return to Practice (RtP) programme enables AHPs and healthcare scientists that have left their professions to re-enter and gain their HCPC registration.