Allied Health Professions

NHS employer · Antrim, Northern Ireland

Allied health careers at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Northern Health and Social Care Trust is an integrated care organisation based in Antrim, Northern Ireland, organisation code ZT002. Workforce and staff survey figures for this organisation are not in the open dataset yet, so this page does not state any. What it does cover is what the organisation type means for your caseload and rotation, where it sits, and which universities nearby train the professions it employs.

Integrated care organisationNorthern Ireland
Integrated care organisation Organisation type ODS code ZT002
£31,049 Band 5 starting salary Northern Ireland, 2025/26 scale
Not published CQC rating Not in the open dataset for this organisation
Not published Staff survey response rate Not in the open dataset for this organisation
Not published Allied health staff Organisation-level workforce data is not in the open dataset yet
Not published Staff overall Whole-organisation headcount not published here

What working here is like

This organisation runs acute and community services together, and in many cases mental health services as well. For allied health staff that is a meaningful structural advantage: the ward, the outpatient clinic and the patient’s home sit inside one employer, so a rotation can follow the whole pathway without you having to change job to see the other end of it.

Practically, it usually means a broader rotation, easier movement between inpatient and community teams later in your career, and services that are organised around a place rather than around a building. It can also mean travel, since an organisation of this shape covers a large geographical patch, and a caseload that shifts between hospital-paced and community-paced work.

None of that is specific to Northern Health and Social Care Trust — it is what the organisation type tells you, and it is the part that reliably holds. The parts that vary between two organisations of the same type are the size of each department, how rotations are structured, how much band 6 progression is built into the establishment, and how far apart the sites are. Those are questions for the recruitment page and for the informal visit that most allied health departments will happily arrange before you apply. Northern Health and Social Care Trust’s own website is the authoritative source for current vacancies and department structure.

Organisation type
Integrated care organisation
Based in
Antrim
Nation
Northern Ireland
ODS code
ZT002
Pay scale that applies
Agenda for Change 2025/26, Northern Ireland

Allied health professions employed here

Based on what integrated care organisations run rather than on a published staff list: these are the professions whose services this kind of organisation provides. Each page covers the caseload, the pay ladder and where the local courses are.

Physiotherapist at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

People of all ages with musculoskeletal pain and injury, neurological conditions, respiratory and cardiac disease, frailty and falls risk, long-term conditions, and those recovering from surgery or critical illness.

Usually starts at band 5Taught in Northern Ireland
OT

Occupational therapist at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

People of all ages recovering from surgery, stroke or injury, and people living with mental illness, learning disability, dementia, long-term conditions or physical disability who want to live more independently.

Usually starts at band 5Taught in Northern Ireland

Paramedic at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

People of all ages with acute illness, injury, mental health crisis or long-term conditions who call for urgent help, from cardiac arrest and major trauma to falls, breathing problems and end-of-life care at home.

Usually starts at band 5Taught in Northern Ireland

Diagnostic radiographer at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Patients of all ages, from newborns to older people, who need imaging for diagnosis, screening, monitoring or image-guided treatment, including trauma, cancer, cardiac and emergency patients.

Usually starts at band 5Taught in Northern Ireland
ODP

Operating department practitioner at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Patients of all ages undergoing planned or emergency surgery and other procedures requiring anaesthesia, alongside surgeons, anaesthetists, theatre nurses and support workers.

Usually starts at band 5
RD

Dietitian at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

People of all ages with medical conditions affected by diet — including digestive, kidney, metabolic and swallowing disorders, malnutrition, food allergy, obesity and eating disorders — as well as healthy populations.

Usually starts at band 5Taught in Northern Ireland
SLT

Speech and language therapist at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Children and adults with speech, language, communication or swallowing needs, including people after stroke or brain injury, autistic people, people with learning disabilities, progressive neurological conditions, head and neck cancer and voice disorders.

Usually starts at band 5Taught in Northern Ireland

Podiatrist at Northern Health and Social Care Trust

People of all ages with foot and lower limb problems, particularly those living with diabetes, circulatory or neurological disease and arthritis, children with walking or lower limb pain, and athletes and dancers.

Usually starts at band 5Taught in Northern Ireland

Where it is, and who trains near it

Northern Health and Social Care Trust sits in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Geography matters more in allied health recruitment than in most NHS careers, because pre-registration courses carry a large block of supervised clinical practice and those placements are commissioned with the trusts and boards nearest the university. Students placed with an organisation know its systems, its staff and its patients before they graduate, and a substantial share of newly qualified appointments go to people who were placed there. 1 university in Northern Ireland runs approved allied health courses, training physiotherapists, occupational therapists, paramedics, diagnostic radiographers, dietitians, speech and language therapists and podiatrists among others.

Pay is a national question rather than a local one: Northern Health and Social Care Trust pays the Northern Ireland Agenda for Change rates for 2025/26, the same as every other NHS employer in the nation. For context, band 5 starts at £31,049 while median full-time pay across all occupations in Northern Ireland was £37,052 in 2025. What does vary between employers is everything around the salary: how long a rotation lasts, how much protected time you get for supervision and continuing professional development, whether band 6 progression is planned into the establishment, and how far you will drive between sites.

Universities in Northern Ireland

The providers whose placement circuits are most likely to include this organisation.

Ulster University

art therapists, diagnostic radiographers, dietitians and occupational therapists

Belfast11 courses

Other NHS organisations in Northern Ireland

The realistic alternatives if you are looking for a first post in this area — they pay the same bands, so the difference is the caseload.

NHS organisations in Northern Ireland
Organisation Type Based in
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Integrated care organisation Belfast
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust Ambulance service Belfast
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust Integrated care organisation Belfast
Southern Health and Social Care Trust Integrated care organisation Craigavon
Western Health and Social Care Trust Integrated care organisation Londonderry

How the pay ladder works here

The same four steps apply at every NHS employer; what differs is how quickly the posts come up.

£31,049 Band 5 · Newly qualified First post after registration, usually rotational.
£38,682 Band 6 · Specialist Typically two to four years in; a defined clinical specialty.
£47,810 Band 7 · Advanced or team lead Clinical leadership, complex caseload, supervision.
£55,690 Band 8a · Consultant or service lead Service-wide responsibility or consultant practice.

Next steps

Where this page’s data comes from

This page publishes the organisation record and the national pay scale only. No workforce, staff survey or inspection figures for this organisation are in the open dataset yet.