Deputy Head of Practice Development

Job responsibilities

There will be close partnership with the other senior managers to deliver the educational provision and monitor related key performance indicators for this portfolio ultimately providing assurance to the Heads of Department and Directorate team as a subject matter expert. As detailed in the JD section, this role will require travel, autonomy, and close liaison with system partners across the Trust in support of the greater organisational objectives. As a senior management position there may also be line management expectations.

Qualifications

Essential

• Effective HCPC registration or equivalent NMC registration, and outside of any preceptorship period.
• Level 6 qualification in Paramedic Science, or current level 5 equivalent, and to achieve level 6 within 3 years of appointment, or previous relevant experience demonstrable at level 6.
• Level 5 or 6 Mentoring/Practice Education (PEd) qualification and applied demonstrable experience.
• Level 7 Master's Degree in a teaching, training and education-related subject, and applied demonstrable experience within the clinical/medical/health care sector, or relevant Postgraduate Level 7 demonstratable experience and to achieve full Master's Degree within 3 years of appointment.
• Recognised managerial and clinical leadership qualification and applied demonstrable experience.
• Recognised quality assurance qualification (ie IQA, EQA), or previous relevant demonstrable experience.
• Recognised assessment/verifier qualification (ie CAVA, TAQA), or previous relevant demonstrable experience.
• Recognised practitioner or instructor qualification with active currency (ie Resus Council UK, RCSEd, FPHC, ATACC).

Desirable

• Membership with a relevant professional body (ie CoP, RCSEd).
• Recognised quality/service improvement or project management qualification (ie QSIR, PRINCE2), or previous demonstrable experience.
• Relevant professional accreditation at Fellowship level such as the Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Institute of Leadership & Management (InstLM), or equivalent.
• Level 7 Master's Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice or NHSE annotation in Advanced Practice. Or annotated as an Independent Prescriber, preferably associated with being a DMP mentor.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Substantial evidence of ongoing CPD/Professional Development, and specifically related to the four domains of clinical practice, senior leadership, education, and research.
• Possesses a strong, positive, motivational senior leadership style with assertiveness, confidence, and emotional intelligence acumen. Plus, a reflective self-awareness, openness to feedback and a passion for continual self-development and coaching.
• Possesses the ability to understand, synthesise and solve a range of complex problems, showing innovation and creativity aligned to transformational change/change management concepts.
• Able to competently use and navigate the core Microsoft Windows suite (including Word, Excel, Outlook) and other related packages. Plus, quickly learn new digital systems.

Desirable

• Knowledge of mechanisms for delivering corporate data intelligence, governance, and assurance for reporting to Board and external partners, stakeholders, and regulators.
• Knowledge of the Trust's strategy on clinical supervision and practice education in the context of the Trust's workforce plan, external partners' business interests, and national NHSE&I/HEE and AHP agendas.

Experience

Essential

• Significant demonstrable post-registration (and post-preceptorship) experience as a senior paramedic/ ambulance nurse within an operational clinical environment.
• Significant demonstrable experience of delivery of teaching, training, and education within the clinical/ medical/health care environment, including supervision, mentoring or practice education.
• Significant demonstrable experience at a senior level of management and leadership of staff, systems, and processes within a complex clinical/medical/health care environment.
• Demonstrable experience of delivery of quality assurance methodologies within the clinical / medical / health care environment.
• Demonstrable experience of delivery of assessment/ verifier methodologies within the clinical/medical/ health care environment.
• Demonstrable experience of applied quality/service improvement or project management methodologies.
• Demonstrable senior level experience of operating with impact and influence at a strategic and regional level that transcends multiple ICS systems, education partners, stakeholders, and regulators.
• Demonstrable senior level experience of delivering priority performance metrics aligned to strategic objectives within a complex clinical/medical/health care environment.
• Demonstrable senior level experience of delivering a safe, quality, and effective educational provision for learners and clinicians within complex systems, and across multiple academic pathways.

Desirable

• Experience of delivering clinical supervision and practice education capability and capacity, balancing competing operational demands and workforce trajectories.
• Experience of senior level line management of staff across multiple complex teams. Plus, dealing with people (particularly vulnerable learners) in difficult, challenging and highly emotive circumstances.
• Experience of operating (and chairing) within various senior tiers of internal and external groups, committees and boards related to education and clinical practice within the NHS.

Personal Qualities, Abilities and Attributes

Essential

• Able to lead and enact the operationalisation of key priorities at a senior level, with effective communication across complex audiences (ie learners, PEds, and operational management tiers) via sensitive use of tact, diplomacy, and persuasion skills.
• Able to drive and execute the delivery of strategic priorities at a senior level. With effective influence, negotiation, self-awareness, and political astuteness across senior tiers (ie directors, Board, partners, stakeholders, commissioners, and regulators).
• Able to analyse, extract, synthesise and present politically sensitive and contentious complex data, specifically at a strategic level across multiple senior internal and external audiences relating to corporate governance, risk, compliance, and regulation.
• Able to lead at a senior level with integrity, credibility, and compassion, embodying the Trust's vision, values, and behaviours and the NHSE People Plan premise, to transcend all tiers and across all parts of the organisation and regional systems.
• Able to deliver effective senior level line management to multiple teams, plus build relationships and high performing team cohesion, including utilisation of remote, digital, and agile working practices and innovative senior leadership methods.
• Able to manage autonomous priority workstreams, competing demands, and maintaining self-resilience under pressure, including delegation, holding others to account, self-awareness, and ability to identify when support or escalation is needed.
• Possesses a full, current UK driving licence with category C1 and no more than 6 points. Plus, ability to blue light respond.

Desirable

• Able to transcend professional boundaries to develop and enhance collaborative initiatives and systems working, holding a credible and compelling senior leadership presence across peer AHP, nursing and medical spheres outside of traditional environments.
• Able to decisively translate strategic plans and make informed decisions and judgements, demonstrating clear commitment to improving quality for learners, staff, and patient care/service users.
• Able to represent the Trust with integrity and credibility on the national stage (ie AACE, NENAS, AHP Faculties and Councils), to contribute, support and deliver national workstreams for the NHS, AHP and ambulance agendas.
• Able to manage significant and complex budgets and ensure responsible budgetary activity expenditure follows due procedures, parameters, and legalities.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).