Project Team & Membership.
Rhoda Allison – Faculty Chair
Matt Lund – Faculty Project Lead
Matt combines 15 hours as a faculty project lead with a non-medical lead role in the pain team at Northern Devon Healthcare Trust. Prior to Abi and Rhoda joining, Matt spent three months mainly focussed on establishing the faculty, identification and engaging with key stakeholders, as well as starting work on data and TECS toolkit deliverables (Table 1). In April 2022, he began work on the ED&I deliverable.
Abi Hall – Faculty Project Lead
Abi is a community-based physiotherapist by background – primarily working with older people and has a particular interest in dementia. She has had several AHP leadership roles in the Midlands and the Southwest and has a particular interest in workforce development. She is also a post-doctoral research fellow at Exeter University currently undertaking a post-doctoral NIHR funded School of Primary Care Research Fellowship exploring treatments for people with advanced dementia following hip fracture. She is working part-time as a project lead for the faculty alongside her research role and is leading on several workstreams within the faculty.
Membership
The faculty has membership from a variety of different organisations in Devon, including NHS Trusts, social care, educational institutes and includes:
- Livewell Southwest
- Plymouth NHS Trust
- Devon Partnership Trust
- Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust
- Northern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust (including representation from Torbay County Council)
- Devon County Council
- South West Ambulance Service
- PIVOs
- Devon Training Hub
- University of Exeter
- University of Plymouth
- University of Marjons
- University of West England
- University of Bolton
- FE Colleges where appropriate
- Other HEIs who are commissioned to provide education within Devon
The faculty includes direct representation of seven of the fourteen AHP professions, although they are often represented by other people who do attend. Ongoing work is being undertaken to increase the representation of more AHP professions as appropriate.
Workstreams
The table below demonstrates the current deliverables for the AHP Faculty for the period January 2022 – September 2022. Further workstreams may be added during this period depending on the ICS priorities and available funding.
Deliverables and associated project leads
| Deliverable | Lead |
| Establish a Devon AHP faculty and ensure sustainability | Rhoda Allison, Abi Hall, Matthew Lund |
| Scope of AHP workforce data | Matthew Lund |
| Develop a toolkit for clinicians to support the use of TECS in placements | Matthew Lund |
| Equality, Diversity and Inclusion | Matthew Lund |
| Return-to-NHS Practice in the Devon AHP Workforce | Abi Hall |
| National AHP support worker workforce plan | Abi Hall |
