Consultant Lead for Advanced Practice

Job Overview

The Lead Advanced Practitioner (AP) will play a pivotal role in ensuring the Trust has a clear strategy for supporting advanced practice by:

• Successfully establishing the role of Lead for AP within the Trust and with external partners.
• Working collaboratively and strategically with colleagues to share good practice.
• Establishing AP governance arrangements in line with the HEE AP Maturity Matrix.
• Taking strategic leadership responsibility for ensuring the delivery of person-centred, safe, and effective patient care by all APs in the Trust.
• Providing direction and guidance on clinical practice and development for AP by establishing effective clinical supervision, educational supervision, and managerial support and associated governance arrangements.
• Developing new policies and implementing best practices so our highly skilled AP workforce continues to develop and work effectively to meet the needs of patients.
• Supporting the Trust’s Deputy Chief Nurse and Deputy Medical Director in progressing the Trust’s Advanced Practice strategy.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure robust supervision arrangements are in place for all ACPs.
• Undertake professional development planning with ACPs to identify opportunities for growth and development, enabling them to work in a standardised way across the Trust.
• Ensure annual appraisal and revalidation arrangements are in place for all ACPs.
• Lead and support divisions in the recruitment of new ACPs.
• Working with the Education Lead for AP, supervise and support ACP trainees, including assisting departments in arranging clinical training programmes, clinical supervision, and educational supervision to enable them to develop and practise safely and effectively as they train.
• Maintain a contemporary directory of all ACPs in the Trust.
• Develop and update ACP job descriptions and oversee ACP projects.
• Produce ACP report and papers as required.
• Lead ACP away days.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Managerial

• Ensure robust supervision arrangements are in place for all ACPs.
• Undertake professional development planning with ACPs to identify opportunities for growth and development, enabling them to work in a standardised way across the Trust.
• Ensure annual appraisal and revalidation arrangements are in place for all ACPs.
• Lead and support divisions in the recruitment of new ACPs.
• Working with the Education Lead for AP, supervise and support ACP trainees, including assisting departments in arranging clinical training programmes, clinical supervision, and educational supervision to enable them to develop and practise safely and effectively as they train.
• Maintain a contemporary directory of all ACPs in the Trust.
• Develop and update ACP job descriptions and oversee ACP projects.
• Produce ACP report and papers as required.
• Lead ACP away days.

Strategic

• Provide professional leadership for the strategic direction of all ACP activity across the Trust, including:
• Service development and redesign
• Workforce planning
• Innovative role development
• Recruitment and retention
• Training and development
• Professional supervision and development to underpin the provision of sustainable high-quality services
• Work with the directorate triumvirates to establish advanced practice workforce plans, ensuring the workforce is adequately resourced and educationally/clinically prepared to deliver high-quality care now and for the future.
• Be at the forefront of innovative practice, inspiring colleagues to implement innovation and supporting others to identify innovation.
• Identify challenges that may accompany the implementation of Advanced Practice roles and direct or influence the necessary measures to overcome them.
• Define current processes, facilitate discussions, and advise colleagues on how best practice might be adopted.
• Work with key stakeholders to determine a new Trust strategy for advanced practice.
• Identify resources and effectively communicate with staff to secure appropriate utilisation of resources.

Education

• Work in partnership with higher education institutes and NHS England to ensure the delivery of educational programmes that meet the requirements and create a workforce responsive to the needs of patients and the organisation now and for the future.
• Work with the Deputy Chief Nurse to develop career portfolios for staff and develop educational interventions to best meet the identified need.
• Identify and help support the development of opportunities for multidisciplinary Advanced Practice learning and development.
• Co-ordinate audit, Research & Development initiatives relating to Advanced Practice roles ensuring integration with key performance indicators.

Leadership

• Provide professional expertise relating to Advanced Practice throughout FHFT.
• Work in conjunction with other advanced practice leads to develop and deliver the advanced practice strategy across the Integrated Care System (ICS).
• Represent APs across the Trust and develop relationships both regionally and nationally to share best practice.
• Facilitate the standardisation of Advanced Practice/Advanced Roles across the organisation.
• Support collaborative working across and between Trusts within the region.
• Maintain the Trust Framework and work to achieve a positive impact on the advanced practice maturity matrix and other Advanced roles, updating appropriately.
• Use highly developed specialist knowledge to support the development of a range of advanced practice roles across the Trust.
• Provide support and guidance to the Divisions in developing plans for their non-medical workforce.
• Develop a clinical governance structure to ensure learning and quality improvement are embedded.

Key Working Relationships

• Chief Nurse
• Deputy Chief Nurse
• Chief Medical Director
• Deputy Medical Director
• Consultants and Medical Teams
• Nursing Teams
• Advanced Practice Education Team
• Administrative and Clerical Staff where necessary.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• MSc in ACP
• 2 years minimum NHS experience.

Desirable criteria

• Previous lead ACP experience or equivalent
• Strategy writing experience.

Registration

Essential criteria

• NMC/HCPC registration or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

• NMC/HCPC registration or equivalent.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good communication skills
• Good time management skills.

Desirable criteria

• Trained in education supervision.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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