Building allied health professions' leadership self-efficacy through authentic experiential learning: a participatory evaluation of allied health professions leadership fellow secondments.

Background: NHS England's Chief Allied Health Profession's Officer has called for investment in allied health professions (AHPs) leaders and the need to address limited leadership development opportunities for AHPs. We report the evaluation of a small-scale leadership initiative in a UK National Health Service (NHS) provider where part-time, fixed term, project focused AHP leadership fellow posts were established.

Aim: To gain insights about the implementation and benefits of an AHP leadership fellow initiative and to identify learning to inform future AHP leadership development.