Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Practice
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-EOE-6708516-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cambridge / Victoria House
- Town
- Fulbourn, Cambridge
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Practice Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Long-Term Plan calls for a step change in multi-professional advanced practice requiring capacity to be built at national, regional and sub-regional level, e.g. in Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to drive change. The National Centre for Advancing Practice has been established to standardise routes into advanced practice, accredit advanced practice programmes and recognise registered health and care practitioners who demonstrate the capabilities set out in the advancing practice or consultant practitioner framework and the national educational standards for advancing practice.
The regional faculty will drive regional workforce transformation to support the appropriate uptake of advanced practice. We are looking for a highly organised and flexible Advanced Practice Lead, capable of using their own skills and expertise to co-ordinate and support successful delivery of the advancing practice portfolio at regional and sub-regional level. This is a multi-professional approach, and the successful post holder must have an appreciation and respect for the different professions alongside a desire to maximise the opportunities for all.
Main duties of the job
You will have extensive knowledge of advanced and consultant level practice, be self-motivated with excellent attention to detail, a natural ability to build effective multi professional partnerships, plan, be keen to apply and grow your excellent organisational skills and be able to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels.
This role will provide excellent leadership, drive the national advancing practice agenda locally and actively promote advanced practitioners as part of workforce solutions that support service change. With the National Centre for Advancing Practice at the hub, the concept of a ‘faculty’ at both regional and sub-regional level is a virtual ‘hub and spoke’ model; based on strong co-production, co-ordination and extensive stakeholder engagement on all matters relating to advancing practice.
Working for our organisation
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 visit https://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.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Advanced Practice Lead will be responsibility for:
- provide advanced practice leadership and programme management expertise at a regional level (as determined by the policies, implementation plans and timescales of the Centre for Advancing Practice, NHSE Mandate, National Workforce Plan, the draft People Plan and Local Delivery Plans);
- have responsibility and accountability for the strategic and operational development of the Regional Faculty for Advancing Practice (The Faculty) and ensure robust systems are in in place to implement and deliver its objectives;
- proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with the regional delivery plan ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate correspond;
- actively engage with the Centre for Advancing Practice as part of its formal governance arrangements working alongside other Regional Advanced Practice Leads;
- act as a conduit of information between the Centre for Advancing Practice, regional and national teams including working with other regional programme leads (e.g. mental health, cancer, primary care, apprenticeships), regional representatives in the Arm’s Length Bodies and the ICSs to ensure advanced practice is embedded and delivered across all priority areas;
- working in partnership with the existing regional enabling functions (e.g. business intelligence, commissioning, quality, workforce transformation and workforce planning) actively support the Regional Director, Advancing Practice Senior Responsible Officer (SRO), and National Programme Lead in carrying out duties across the region and sub-region in relation to the advancing practice workforce;
- develop the relationship and engagement strategy to facilitate local health and social care systems including ICSs to recognise the importance of advancing practice in service transformation, using knowledge and experience to drive modernised transformed pathways of care and support the system in developing actionable solutions
- To manage the budgetary aspects of the Faculty ensuring commissioning and financial management processes are in place, based on nationally agreed principles, to drive value and efficacy and demonstrate return on investment;
- ensure the Faculty strategy is formulated, understood by all stakeholders, and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively and with patient safety at its core;
- Working with workforce planning and business intelligence colleagues engage with the health and social care system to identify current and future advanced practitioner demand and supply and optimise workforce intelligence and modelling to demonstrate impact on patient care;
- provide support and advice to ICSs members on the development of the existing and future workforce and the delivery of the transformation plan outcomes, ensuring that planning assumptions are shared and widely understood across the regional health and social care system;
- create and deliver a wide range of reports to demonstrate a sound understanding of both the quality assurance and value for money impact of advancing practice in the region and sub-regional level.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to master’s level or higher or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area for an extended period
- • Extensive knowledge of a range of specialist areas in a relevant field of expertise acquired through post graduate diploma/master’s degree or equivalent experience gained over an extended period of time to enable highly developed subject matter expertise
Desirable criteria
- • Member of a relevant professional body and current regulation by appropriate regulator (desirable)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive knowledge and understanding of NHSE Advanced and Consultant agenda
- • Demonstrated experience of leading programmes in highly complex and challenging environments
- • Experience of developing and implementing policy and programmes to support the delivery of team and organisational objectives and business plans
- • Significant experience of monitoring substantial budgets and financial and business planning processes
- • Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment with diverse stakeholder input
Desirable criteria
- • Extensive knowledge of the structure and organisation of the healthcare education and training, the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and the mechanics for workforce planning
- • Communicates a clear vision for change and presents a positive role model in terms of service improvement and organisational change
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Encourages effective communication between all involved proactively seeking out different styles and methods of communication to assist longer term needs and aims
- • Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and support delivery of such information to a wide range of differing groups often at a very senior level. This involves anticipating barriers to communication and takes action to improve communication, communicating effectively and calmly in difficult situations and with difficult people
- • Successful negotiator displaying high levels of political astuteness to achieve outcomes in difficult and contentious situations
- • Ability to complex problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demand
Desirable criteria
- • Capable of effective planning over medium to long term timeframes making adjustments and planning resourcing accordingly
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- • Promotes a safe environment for exchange of views and ideas takes appropriate action when there are issues with health, safety and security
- • Aware of the impact of own behaviour on others
- • Leads by example and actively acts as a role model in own behaviour fostering an inclusive culture
- • Constructively challenges and accepts constructive challenge from others
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katie Cooper
- Job title
- Regional Advanced Practice Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Therese Davis [email protected]
Regional Head of Nursing and Midwifery, AHP and AP
List jobs with NHS England in Administrative Services or all sectors