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Student radiographer helps launch AHP career framework
Diagnostic radiography student Priscilla Shote has filmed a video case study to help promote the new AHP Educator Career Framework from the NHS Council of Deans of Health.
Priscilla is a second year student at London South Bank University and a current member of the council's #150leaders programme, as well as London delegate lead for the SoR student forum.
The outcome-based framework describes the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be an effective teacher, learning facilitator and role model in AHP education across all career stages and is seen as an important first step in establishing a national standard for the AHP education workforce.
It looks at a range of AHP educator roles with their associated capabilities and proposed education, training, and academic standards through six domains.
Priscilla Shote
Enter now for Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Awards 2023
The CAHPO awards are open to all 14 Allied Health Professions and are for NHS or publicly funded initiatives/projects. The entry period closes on 9 June.
The awards are a unique opportunity for AHPs to receive recognition for their personal contributions towards delivery of exceptional care for patients. They promote adoption and dissemination of good practice being delivered by AHPs and give teams the chance to review their work and look at the impact they have made to services.
The 2023 award categories are:
- Creative provision of placements
- AHP public health champion
- AHP digital practice
- AHP workforce transformation
- AHP innovation and improvement within integrated care systems
- AHP research impact
- Greener AHP
- AHP Leadership for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
- CAHPO award 2023 (overall award not open for nominations)
To enter, complete the online application form to nominate yourself or others. An online information pack is available to help AHPs choose a category and apply. The deadline for submissions is midnight on 9 June 2023.
Radiotherapy manager Sonia retires after 37 years
Sonia Tankard, radiotherapy manager at Colchester Hospital, retired in March this year after nearly four decades in the profession.
Sonia, aged 60, started her training at Portsmouth School of Radiography in 1983, gaining her first employment upon graduating at St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth. She gained experience working in London at Guy's Hospital before moving to Australia and working both at the Prince of Wales Hospital and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.
Sonia continued her career in Colchester, Essex, moving up the ranks quickly and becoming radiotherapy manager in 1999.
During Sonia’s time at Colchester she has been at the heart of the department, facilitating the implementation of many services and techniques for the benefit of patients. In 2014 she managed the successful move of the radiotherapy department from an outdated facility at the old Essex County Hospital to a state-of-the-art, purpose-built department at Colchester General Hospital.
In 2018, the department became the first in Essex and Suffolk to offer brachytherapy with needles for advanced cervical cancer. All at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust would like to wish Sonia a happy and healthy retirement.
Keir Williamson, Consultant Therapy Radiographer, Colchester Hospital
Radiographer flies to work in Outer Hebrides
Alex (left) and Rachel boarding a flight to the Isle of Lewis
Alex (left) and Rachel boarding a flight to the Isle of Lewis
Radiographer and obstetrics sonographer Alex Koulouris swapped West Sussex for a winter post in the Outer Hebrides this year.
Alex was based on the Isle of Lewis for six months, providing an obstetric ultrasound service to the women on the islands and training midwife sonographer Rachel Dunn in all aspects of obstetrics ultrasound.
Alex said: "It has been a rewarding six months, I honestly have never met so many outgoing and caring healthcare professionals. I never thought I’d ever fly to work and was left in awe at the sheer natural beauty of the islands".
Read the full story of Alex's experiences in the Outer Hebrides in the July edition of Synergy.
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