Welcome to the Ayrshire and Arran Allied Health Profession (AHP) section. Within Ayrshire we have around 800 AHP staff from eight unique professions working across our health and social care settings. The AHPs employed across Ayrshire include:
- Arts Psychotherapies
- Dietetics
- Occupational Therapy
- Orthoptics
- Orthotics
- Physiotherapy
- Podiatry
- Radiography
- Speech and Language Therapy
Our staff work across a wide range of settings including hospitals, outpatient clinics, schools, nurseries, care homes, people’s houses and a wide range of other community settings including Kilmarnock Prison.
Read more about each profession in the sections below:
Valuing and supporting our staff
We value the ongoing wellbeing and professional development of each member of our AHP workforce. This ensures that we support our staff whilst equipping them to deliver the best possible care and services for the population of Ayrshire.
NHMAP Development Framework
We totally endorse the principals of the NMAHP Development Framework to guide the development of knowledge and skills required for each role. The NES NMAHP development framework is an overarching resource comprising of two linked components:
- Healthcare Support Workers Development and Education Framework
- The NMAHP Post-registration Development Framework
More information here: www.nmahpdevelopmentframework.nes.scot.nhs.uk
Flying Start NHS
All of our newly qualified AHPs are supported and given dedicated time to complete the Flying Start NHS programme. This is a national development programme for all newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals, to be undertaken in the first year of practice. It’s designed to help support the transition from pre-registered student to qualified, confident and capable health professional.
More information here: https://learn.nes.nhs.scot/735/flying-start-nhs
Quality Supervision
Quality supervision is recognised as a key aspect of a governance framework that enables and supports staff to deliver high quality health and social care advice and interventions. The benefits of quality supervision are well documented as having a positive impact for the people who deliver and receive our services. With this in mind our vision is that every AHP working in Ayrshire experiences quality supervision in line with recognised good practice, and regulatory standards. The Ayrshire and Arran AHP Supervision Guideline (August 2022) was developed to support and guide this process.
The AHP workforce are actively contributing to the NHS Ayrshire and Arran Nursing Midwifery & Allied Health Profession (NMAHP) Strategy 2023-2026. Click here to find out more about this.