Advanced Practice Lead
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation- 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.
- 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 criteria- 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
- Independent prescribing qualification.
- Research qualification or demonstrable significant experience of participating in research.
Knowledge
Essential criteria- 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.
- 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 criteria- 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.
- Experience of applying research or audit to clinical practice.
- Experience of workforce planning.
Skills
Essential criteria- 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.
- Personally resilient, able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment
Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.
Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.
In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.
Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.
The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.
We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified.We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.
The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people- including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia.
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We are a committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.
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Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.
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