Job summary
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust are delighted to be able to offer the opportunity to join our team as Divisional Advanced Practice Lead at Weston General Hospital. This not only benefits our patients in terms of quality of care, but provides our patients with more prompt admission, inpatient care and discharges, which in turn improves patient experience and reduce length of stay.
The Divisional AP Lead will support the divisional senior team to provide highly specialised, expert advice, consultancy and clinical expertise.They will provide clinical leadership and support for AP services and medical associate professions teams.
They will play a key role in the development of advanced practice at a local trust and regional level supporting the trust AP lead and the trust AHP lead in the strategic development of AP services across the division.
The Divisional Lead will work closely with Pier Health and Sirona to support collaborative working within One Weston locality partnership which forms part of the BNSSG ICB with a vision to rotate APs through the system to achieve working in a boundaryless system.
The post holder will practice as a senior clinician.They will work across the department where their expertise lies practicing independently and autonomously with minimal or no supervision.They will deliver a 50% clinical component to their role and 50% related to their AP divisional management, leadership, innovation, and educational responsibilities.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead on the Divisional development of AP team across WSM whilst supporting and shaping the future service design and development. The Divisional AP Lead will perform at an advanced level under the core capabilities across the four pillars of Advanced Practice (Health Education England Multi-Professional Framework 2017).
To lead a team of Advanced Practitioners and trainee's and provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership across Weston General Hospital in relation to advanced practice. The post holder will provide strategic leadership for the recruitment, training, supervision, and retention of the AP workforce in Weston General Hospital. The successful candidate will act as Senior AP / AP Lead for Weston General Hospital, providing a strong clinical presence and developing advanced practice, assuring the provision of a safe, effective and evidence based advanced practice to patients.
The successful candidate will deliver a job plan to support the 4 pillars. A minimum of 50% clinical component, with the remainder related to management, service development, clinical audit, educational strategy, teaching, self-development, and research.
The successful candidate will be required to have evidence of advanced leadership, change management, innovation and experience in education and developing staff.
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Current registration with professional body e.g., NMC, HCPC, etc
- MSc in advanced clinical practice (or equivalent)
- Registered Independent Prescriber
- Hold a current ALS provider qualification
- Hold a GCP qualification
- Completed specialty accreditation
Desirable
- Supervision qualification
Knowledge and Training
Essential
- Significant experience in post as a qualified AP
- Completed portfolio of supervised practice in advanced practice
- Evidence of continued professional development following MSc completion including evidence of supplemented specialist training and competencies
- Development of policy and practice change.
- Multidisciplinary education development and delivery
- Experience in leading audit and undertaking research
- Completed quality improvement projects
- Collaborative working across the specialty Involvement in interface groups
Desirable
- Experience in leading research programmes
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Resilience
- Assertiveness
- Demonstrated ability to take overall responsibility and accountability
- Good communication
- Flexible
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Personal insight and awareness
- Being a good team player
- Innovative
Aptitudes
Essential
- Possess the skills and wide range of clinical knowledge to work as an autonomous practitioner to undertake independent, direct consultation and provision of care.
- Function autonomously to achieve the strategic developments working without direct supervision. Identify and critically appraise contemporary evidence, develop and promote best practice, ensuring strong clinical leadership.
- Participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of protocols, policies and integrated care pathways in line with current best evidence.
Relationship Skills
Essential
- Ability to work within a multi-professional team, presenting and receiving highly complex, specialist, sensitive or contentious information to the team or patients
- Demonstrates negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to lead a clinical team
- Assertiveness skills and the ability to deal with interpersonal conflict
- Accepts constructive feedback and teaching from a variety of sources
- Ability to provide clinical advice and expertise in the specialist clinical area
- Ability to adapt communication methods to a wide variety of patient abilities/needs
- Communication skills that facilitate building honest and trusting partnerships with patients, families and carers
Desirable
- Experience in delivering complex and specialist information to large groups through multiple formats
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates adaptability to departmental and patient need.
- Self-motivated with evidence of efficient time and deadline management.
- Experience of planning, developing and implementing multidisciplinary education and teaching
- Evidence of policy and guideline development and implementation
- Able to identify learning opportunities and able to organise own learning and development
- Ability to interpret and implement local, regional and national policy
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex information including health conditions and ensure effective interventions are actioned in a timely manner
- Experience in making operational judgements and managing conflicting views.
- Deals effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures and guidelines.
- Ability to work with undifferentiated and undiagnosed healthcare problems.
Desirable
- Involvement in the investigation of serious clinical incidents
Physical Skills and Other requirements
Essential
- Able to undertake highly complex clinical duties/procedures that require highly developed skills and at times a high degree of precision.
- Ability to manoeuvre patients and perform clinical examinations as required
- Ability to undertake computer and other equipment skills.
- Demonstrates flexibility in working patterns and practices.
- Ability to support, colleagues, patients and relatives in sometimes distressing circumstances
- Ability to work across campuses and externally including local, regional, national.
- Ability to travel across all UHBW sites
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Current registration with professional body e.g., NMC, HCPC, etc
- MSc in advanced clinical practice (or equivalent)
- Registered Independent Prescriber
- Hold a current ALS provider qualification
- Hold a GCP qualification
- Completed specialty accreditation
Desirable
- Supervision qualification
Knowledge and Training
Essential
- Significant experience in post as a qualified AP
- Completed portfolio of supervised practice in advanced practice
- Evidence of continued professional development following MSc completion including evidence of supplemented specialist training and competencies
- Development of policy and practice change.
- Multidisciplinary education development and delivery
- Experience in leading audit and undertaking research
- Completed quality improvement projects
- Collaborative working across the specialty Involvement in interface groups
Desirable
- Experience in leading research programmes
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Resilience
- Assertiveness
- Demonstrated ability to take overall responsibility and accountability
- Good communication
- Flexible
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Personal insight and awareness
- Being a good team player
- Innovative
Aptitudes
Essential
- Possess the skills and wide range of clinical knowledge to work as an autonomous practitioner to undertake independent, direct consultation and provision of care.
- Function autonomously to achieve the strategic developments working without direct supervision. Identify and critically appraise contemporary evidence, develop and promote best practice, ensuring strong clinical leadership.
- Participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of protocols, policies and integrated care pathways in line with current best evidence.
Relationship Skills
Essential
- Ability to work within a multi-professional team, presenting and receiving highly complex, specialist, sensitive or contentious information to the team or patients
- Demonstrates negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to lead a clinical team
- Assertiveness skills and the ability to deal with interpersonal conflict
- Accepts constructive feedback and teaching from a variety of sources
- Ability to provide clinical advice and expertise in the specialist clinical area
- Ability to adapt communication methods to a wide variety of patient abilities/needs
- Communication skills that facilitate building honest and trusting partnerships with patients, families and carers
Desirable
- Experience in delivering complex and specialist information to large groups through multiple formats
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates adaptability to departmental and patient need.
- Self-motivated with evidence of efficient time and deadline management.
- Experience of planning, developing and implementing multidisciplinary education and teaching
- Evidence of policy and guideline development and implementation
- Able to identify learning opportunities and able to organise own learning and development
- Ability to interpret and implement local, regional and national policy
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex information including health conditions and ensure effective interventions are actioned in a timely manner
- Experience in making operational judgements and managing conflicting views.
- Deals effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures and guidelines.
- Ability to work with undifferentiated and undiagnosed healthcare problems.
Desirable
- Involvement in the investigation of serious clinical incidents
Physical Skills and Other requirements
Essential
- Able to undertake highly complex clinical duties/procedures that require highly developed skills and at times a high degree of precision.
- Ability to manoeuvre patients and perform clinical examinations as required
- Ability to undertake computer and other equipment skills.
- Demonstrates flexibility in working patterns and practices.
- Ability to support, colleagues, patients and relatives in sometimes distressing circumstances
- Ability to work across campuses and externally including local, regional, national.
- Ability to travel across all UHBW sites
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).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Address
Weston General Hospital
Grange Road, Uphill
Weston-Super-Mare
BS23 4TQ
Employer's website
https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
