Job summary
Are you an experienced practicing Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a strong leadership pillar looking for a new challenge, if so, we have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Practice Lead to join the newly created Paramedic Directorate on a fixed term contract for 2 years.
We have a new Chief Paramedic that is keen to develop practice across all clinical roles, this role will be a key player in the senior team.
The role will be responsible for providing the professional leadership for the strategic direction of enhanced and advanced practice taking the lead on the implementation and development across the organisation, ensuring the Trust has a clear strategy for supporting enhanced and advanced practitioners.
The successful candidate will need to be dynamic, have strong communication skills, a desire to improve clinical practice in prehospital care and proven track knowledge of the advanced clinical practice framework.
If this is you and you would like to discuss this role further then please get in contact.
Main duties of the job
Successfully establishing the role of Advanced Practice Lead within the Trust and with external partners and stakeholders.
Proactively initiate and develop effective relationships across local, regional, and national boundaries, fostering clarity of enhanced and advanced practice roles.
Proactively influence local, regional, and national priorities related to enhanced and advanced practice.
Ensure appropriate frameworks for guidance, governance, and support are in place for enhanced and advanced practice across the Trust.
Lead effective organisational workforce planning for enhanced and advanced practitioners across all Trust settings, and support recruitment and retention.
Increase organisational and systems knowledge of the impact of enhanced and advanced practitioner roles on service delivery, service transformation, improved patient care, continuity of care and clinical decision making.
Provide organisational oversight for all individuals working at enhanced advanced practice level, ensuring there is consistency in reporting and accountability.
Take strategic leadership responsibility by delivering consultancy on enhanced and advanced practice strategies.
Develop new policy and implement best practice to ensure the current and future enhanced and advanced practice workforce continues to develop and work effectively to meet the needs of patients and services.
About us
- Option to join NHS pension scheme
- A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years' service.
- Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
- Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
- Access to occupational health and counselling services.
- Award winning wellbeing hub
- Back up buddy App
- Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Demonstrate a clear understanding and articulation of current and future enhanced and advanced practice roles within the organisation, including oversight for the governance of enhanced and advanced practitioners across the organisation.
Ensure robust organisational structures, guidance and support are in place to ensure there is enhanced and advanced practice leadership, representation, and the ability to influence across relevant leadership groups.
Ensure workforce planning, recruitment, and retention of enhanced and advanced practitioners across all settings map to workforce plans.
Demonstrate close working relationships with regional faculties of advancing practice, Integrated Care Boards, and Higher Education Institutes.
Ensure there are appropriate feedback mechanisms for evaluating the impact of enhanced and advanced practice roles that utilise quality improvement measures and data to identify the impact of enhanced and advanced practice teams on service provision, access, patient outcomes, pathways and the teams they serve.
Ensure enhanced and advanced practitioners across the organisation undertake standardised, equitable, and supported training and assessment which ensures practitioners are confident, capable and feel safe to practice.
Ensure enhanced and advanced practitioners are supported to follow local, regional, and national enhanced and advanced practice accreditation processes, including credentials and other area-specific capability frameworks (where appropriate).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Demonstrate a clear understanding and articulation of current and future enhanced and advanced practice roles within the organisation, including oversight for the governance of enhanced and advanced practitioners across the organisation.
Ensure robust organisational structures, guidance and support are in place to ensure there is enhanced and advanced practice leadership, representation, and the ability to influence across relevant leadership groups.
Ensure workforce planning, recruitment, and retention of enhanced and advanced practitioners across all settings map to workforce plans.
Demonstrate close working relationships with regional faculties of advancing practice, Integrated Care Boards, and Higher Education Institutes.
Ensure there are appropriate feedback mechanisms for evaluating the impact of enhanced and advanced practice roles that utilise quality improvement measures and data to identify the impact of enhanced and advanced practice teams on service provision, access, patient outcomes, pathways and the teams they serve.
Ensure enhanced and advanced practitioners across the organisation undertake standardised, equitable, and supported training and assessment which ensures practitioners are confident, capable and feel safe to practice.
Ensure enhanced and advanced practitioners are supported to follow local, regional, and national enhanced and advanced practice accreditation processes, including credentials and other area-specific capability frameworks (where appropriate).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered Paramedic
- Masters level qualification in Advanced Practice or equivalent experience plus completion of Centre for Advancing Practice ePortfolio supported route
- Education qualification or demonstrable significant experience of delivering education or facilitating learning
Desirable
- Independent prescribing qualification.
- Research qualification or demonstrable significant experience of participating in research.
Knowledge
Essential
- High levels of current clinical knowledge, competence, critical analysis, and clinical decision-making.
- Strategic knowledge of local, regional, and national issues facing enhanced and advanced practice.
- Knowledge of quality improvement and project management methodologies.
Desirable
- Knowledge of local and regional enhanced and advanced practice educational programmes.
- Knowledge of local, regional, and national enhanced and advanced practice collaborative working networks.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of system wide collaborative working
- Evidence of gathering, analysing, interpreting, and disseminating in-depth information.
- Experience of supporting and supervising enhanced and advanced practice trainees and qualified clinicians.
- Experience of teaching and facilitating learning.
Desirable
- Experience of applying research or audit to clinical practice.
- Experience of workforce planning.
Skills
Essential
- Highly motivated to lead and direct change across an organisation.
- Ability to operate at a strategic level, able to translate strategic decision making into tangible realities.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present to an audience, deliver sensitive information, persuade, and negotiate.
- Ability to initiate and maintain collaborative working partnerships at local, regional, and national levels.
Desirable
- Personally resilient, able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered Paramedic
- Masters level qualification in Advanced Practice or equivalent experience plus completion of Centre for Advancing Practice ePortfolio supported route
- Education qualification or demonstrable significant experience of delivering education or facilitating learning
Desirable
- Independent prescribing qualification.
- Research qualification or demonstrable significant experience of participating in research.
Knowledge
Essential
- High levels of current clinical knowledge, competence, critical analysis, and clinical decision-making.
- Strategic knowledge of local, regional, and national issues facing enhanced and advanced practice.
- Knowledge of quality improvement and project management methodologies.
Desirable
- Knowledge of local and regional enhanced and advanced practice educational programmes.
- Knowledge of local, regional, and national enhanced and advanced practice collaborative working networks.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of system wide collaborative working
- Evidence of gathering, analysing, interpreting, and disseminating in-depth information.
- Experience of supporting and supervising enhanced and advanced practice trainees and qualified clinicians.
- Experience of teaching and facilitating learning.
Desirable
- Experience of applying research or audit to clinical practice.
- Experience of workforce planning.
Skills
Essential
- Highly motivated to lead and direct change across an organisation.
- Ability to operate at a strategic level, able to translate strategic decision making into tangible realities.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present to an audience, deliver sensitive information, persuade, and negotiate.
- Ability to initiate and maintain collaborative working partnerships at local, regional, and national levels.
Desirable
- Personally resilient, able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
