Dr Lisa Taylor is the Employability Lead for the School of AHP. Within the school of AHP employability is increasingly being embedded within the BSc and MSc programme curriculum. Graduates from the School of AHP are facing an ever increasingly competitive healthcare market to gain employment. In response to that demand the School of AHP is developing an employability strategy in conjunction with key partners that provide extracurricular employability activities to further develop our curriculum in line with the current healthcare environment and activities for our students to engage in to maximise their position within the job market. The key aims of the strategy are outlined below.

Transition Into Employment Strategy

Crossing the t's and dotting the i's in the transition that AHP students make into employment.

The main strands of development within TIES are as follows:

  • Role emerging placement development and transition into substantive posts
  • Development of a summer school which will incorporate commercial awareness and generic skill development opportunities.
  • Development of internships within organisations that provide healthcare for students to develop specific skills within the clinical environment.
  • To organise another Employability Symposium in 2013 based on the success of the 2012 Employability Symposium to bring students, alumni and employers/potential employers together to discuss and explore employability for AHP
  • Build upon the research carried out so far within the school of AHP on employability priorities from a professional/HPC standpoint and try weave in employability priorities from a commercial point of view. The results of which will be used to inform course development and educate students as to what is expected of them in the workplace as an AHP graduate as a holistic and realistic approach to expectations in the workplace
  • A group is currently being developed by the Employability lead and AHP students which targets AHP students in their final year of study – meeting 3 or 4 times during their final year to discuss and share and reflect upon employability issues