Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the North East and Yorkshire Region to recruit a PA Workforce Lead (0.4FTE) to lead and support this important programme of work.
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan has a key focus on developing and expanding the healthcare workforce to expedite access to care and improve outcomes and experiences for patients, and their carers and families. Medical Associate Professions (MAPs) form an important part of this expansion.
The health and care professions team are looking for an experienced healthcare professional to support the delivery of a wide range of functions that ensures the successful implementation of Physician Associates (PA) and Anaesthetic Associates (AA) at regional and sub-regional level. This is an evolving role integrally linked to the wider workforce transformation agenda, innovation in curricula development and workforce wellbeing strategies.
This role offers excellent opportunities for personal and professional development as part of a wider team providing leadership and management to the development of our future workforce in our region.
Please note: Whilst this role is titled PA Workforce Lead, the successful applicant would work across both Physicians Associate and Anaesthetic Associate professions, bringing together our Medical Associate Professions within the region.
Main duties of the job
Working within the health and care professions team, the PA Workforce Lead will be involved in multiple aspects in relation to the MAPs agenda. Key duties include:
Providing leadership and oversight of MAPs within the region
Supporting scoping exercises having oversight of numbers on training programmes and those employed within the NHS, as well as overseeing tariff placement payments
Linking with key partners including Education Providers and Employers to support growth targets
Collaborating with other regional and national teams and initiatives that support these roles e.g. preceptorship schemes, additional funding offers
Leading and supporting the PA/AA Ambassador scheme regionally (subject to funding)
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will have proven leadership capability, extensive clinical experience of working in multi-professional teams and working with the MAPs agenda.
The role involves working with internal and external regional stakeholders and the post holder will need to establish and maintain positive stakeholder relationships, facilitating discussions to ensure effective engagement and responsiveness, to support and capture local innovation and develop best practice. They will provide expert professional and clinical advice and through scoping and defining current MAPs provision.
They will ensure processes are documented, roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and oversee their ongoing and sustained delivery. The post holder will work with colleagues in other regions to develop further consistency and commonality across education and training in England.
The post holder will also ensure they work to the principles within NHSEs Quality Framework ensuring quality learning environments for all learners and that patient safety and quality improvement is at the core of all activities.
The post holder will contribute to workforce transformation programmes, advising on the contribution of MAPs roles and supporting the embedding of these roles across the system.
The focus of this role is to:
Lead the development and roll out of the PA and AA Workforce Supply strategy for NEY working with service providers and HEIs to maintain and grow the supply in accordance with service need.
Manage the PA and AA Ambassador scheme on behalf of NHSE NEY, which will include budget management, appointing ambassadors to the roles, liaising with local Faculties and service providers with regard to enabling the take up of Physician Associate roles in service.
Conduct a scoping exercise to identify current qualified PA/AA workforce in NEY, including baseline numbers, demand, and exemplar services, whilst identifying challenges and barriers to retention and attrition. This will enable recommendations to NHSE regional and national team, and other stakeholders on future workforce development investment priorities for MAPs.
Support local faculties and service providers in the development of PA preceptorship programmes.
Represent NHSE NEY at national MAPs Development and Liaison meetings as required.
Support the identification, project development and implementation of proven role extension and advancement opportunities for MAPs within NEY.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will have proven leadership capability, extensive clinical experience of working in multi-professional teams and working with the MAPs agenda.
The role involves working with internal and external regional stakeholders and the post holder will need to establish and maintain positive stakeholder relationships, facilitating discussions to ensure effective engagement and responsiveness, to support and capture local innovation and develop best practice. They will provide expert professional and clinical advice and through scoping and defining current MAPs provision.
They will ensure processes are documented, roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and oversee their ongoing and sustained delivery. The post holder will work with colleagues in other regions to develop further consistency and commonality across education and training in England.
The post holder will also ensure they work to the principles within NHSEs Quality Framework ensuring quality learning environments for all learners and that patient safety and quality improvement is at the core of all activities.
The post holder will contribute to workforce transformation programmes, advising on the contribution of MAPs roles and supporting the embedding of these roles across the system.
The focus of this role is to:
Lead the development and roll out of the PA and AA Workforce Supply strategy for NEY working with service providers and HEIs to maintain and grow the supply in accordance with service need.
Manage the PA and AA Ambassador scheme on behalf of NHSE NEY, which will include budget management, appointing ambassadors to the roles, liaising with local Faculties and service providers with regard to enabling the take up of Physician Associate roles in service.
Conduct a scoping exercise to identify current qualified PA/AA workforce in NEY, including baseline numbers, demand, and exemplar services, whilst identifying challenges and barriers to retention and attrition. This will enable recommendations to NHSE regional and national team, and other stakeholders on future workforce development investment priorities for MAPs.
Support local faculties and service providers in the development of PA preceptorship programmes.
Represent NHSE NEY at national MAPs Development and Liaison meetings as required.
Support the identification, project development and implementation of proven role extension and advancement opportunities for MAPs within NEY.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A healthcare professional with current registration/licence to practice (for PAs/AAs - this would include registration on voluntary register and subsequent register following formal regulation)
- Extensive clinical experience (as a Physician Associate or Anaesthetic Associate), clinical educator experience and knowledge of specialist area acquired through postgraduate education or equivalent experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of workforce development in healthcare to include workforce development approaches education development and commissioning.
- Understanding of the MAPs workforce agenda cross NEY and the challenges.
- Experience of managing and delivering a number of complex initiatives simultaneously in rapidly evolving, political and high-pressure environments including effective management of risk.
- Experience of working with senior colleagues in a range of organisations and dealing at senior level with diverse partners and agencies (public, private and not for profit).
- Knowledge of the HEI programmes available for MAPs workforce.
- Staff management including responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment, performance management and where necessary processes such as grievance and disciplinary matters
Skills
Essential
- Skilled communicator able to select from, and utilise, a range of high-level negotiating and influencing strategies appropriate to different audiences and environments.
- Provide and receive high contentious, sensitive or contentious information from a range of senior stakeholders. Overcoming barriers and conflict to reach 'win-win' outcomes, responding to challenge constructively and diplomatically.
- Able to build consensus amongst varied and challenging stakeholder groups, building trust and commitment and promoting a positive and pro-active partnership approach.
- Able to effectively manage a complex, completing and rapidly evolving set of work priorities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A healthcare professional with current registration/licence to practice (for PAs/AAs - this would include registration on voluntary register and subsequent register following formal regulation)
- Extensive clinical experience (as a Physician Associate or Anaesthetic Associate), clinical educator experience and knowledge of specialist area acquired through postgraduate education or equivalent experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of workforce development in healthcare to include workforce development approaches education development and commissioning.
- Understanding of the MAPs workforce agenda cross NEY and the challenges.
- Experience of managing and delivering a number of complex initiatives simultaneously in rapidly evolving, political and high-pressure environments including effective management of risk.
- Experience of working with senior colleagues in a range of organisations and dealing at senior level with diverse partners and agencies (public, private and not for profit).
- Knowledge of the HEI programmes available for MAPs workforce.
- Staff management including responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment, performance management and where necessary processes such as grievance and disciplinary matters
Skills
Essential
- Skilled communicator able to select from, and utilise, a range of high-level negotiating and influencing strategies appropriate to different audiences and environments.
- Provide and receive high contentious, sensitive or contentious information from a range of senior stakeholders. Overcoming barriers and conflict to reach 'win-win' outcomes, responding to challenge constructively and diplomatically.
- Able to build consensus amongst varied and challenging stakeholder groups, building trust and commitment and promoting a positive and pro-active partnership approach.
- Able to effectively manage a complex, completing and rapidly evolving set of work priorities.
Additional information
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).
