Nurse/Midwife Physical Activity Clinical Champion (various locations)

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a clinical champion the post-holder will:

Link with training leads in NHS trusts to identify training opportunities with their respective health professional cohorts and deliver a standard training package (which you will be trained to deliver) to groups of NHS HCPs in hospitals or in the community / primary care setting.

Provide clinical leadership to the expansion of the Physical Activity Clinical Champions programme (part of the MHPP) and which contributes to the delivery of the National Physical Activity Framework: Everybody Active, Every Day, and is central to OHIDs priorities, including actions on activating professionals.

Engage with and promote collaborative partnerships and projects designed to support implementation of evidenced based interventions to reduce inactivity and promote physical activity across the life course at health-enhancing levels at national, regional and local levels.

Strengthen local capacity and leadership for physical activity by supporting the development of, and delivering, training and capacity building across the health system.

Recognise the complexity of enabling people to get physical activity; that wider determinants of health affect people differently; and that work of PACC’s should contribute towards reducing health inequalities in line with OHID’s core objective

Engage with OHID’s infrastructure (governance groups, stakeholder engagement, academic partnerships, networks, strategy, planning and guidance) and use this insight to enable clinicians and clinical networks to deliver coherent evidence-based information relating to physical activity to patients, and practical interventions in their everyday practice.

Support appropriate engagement in physical activity across the life course across professional boundaries and the whole health and social care economy.

Support the evaluation of the programme by collecting data and ensuring timely completion of forms for each training session.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

· Identify, discuss and action own professional performance and training / development needs with your line manager through appraisal / individual development plan. Attending internal / external training events

· To participate in all mandatory training as required, i.e. fire safety, information governance and all other mandatory training.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

The post holder will develop working relationships and communicate regularly with a wide range of individuals, clinical and non-clinical, internal and external to OHID. This will include;

Internal

· OHID Physical Activity team, including the National Lead for Physical Activity and Healthy Weight and National Programme Manager for Physical Activity

· Local Clinical Champions multi-disciplinary team, including the Lead Clinical Champions

· OHID Regions and Place teams, including Centre Physical Activity lead

· OHID Diet, Obesity and Physical Activity Division

· OHID Healthy Places Team

· Health Improvement directorate

External

· Healthcare professionals with an interest in physical activity in the OHID Centre geography

· NURSE/MIDWIFE / Pharmacist / Psychologist Council’s or royal colleges and other equivalent bodies

· Integrated Care Systems

· Foundation trusts and CCGs

· Active Partnerships

· Local authorities

· Health Education England

· Professional bodies

· NHS England

· Primary Care Networks and Integrated Care Systems

· Academic institutions

· Social enterprises, charities and other non-governmental organisations

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a range of acute clinical settings and demonstrates good clinical decision-making skills
• Current experience of assessing clinical skills
• Experience of developing staff development and education programmes
• Experience of working with staff across a range of disciplines and levels
• Experience of formal classroom and clinical based teaching
• Understanding of health improvement programmes and their implementation
• Proven knowledge of role of physical activity as a tool for primary and secondary prevention, and management of long term conditions.
• Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement

Desirable

• Knowledge of principles and practice of public health including health needs assessment and evidence base strategies to address health inequalities

Equality and Diversity

Essential

• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree-educated Registered health care practitioner with current respective registration
• Member of relevant professional body
• Evidence of continuing personal development
• Capacity to work 12 hours per month, and able to work flexibly to deliver sessions within and beyond usual 9-5 working hours when needed

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification
• Practice Teacher Qualification or equivalent or willingness to work towards

Skills and Capabilities

Essential

• Exceptional online teaching and presentation skills using MS Teams, able to engage audience and deliver information in an interesting way.
• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively.
• Must be an effective organiser, influencer and networker.. Must be willing to build relationships and engage with new stakeholders in order to actively promote and organise sessions when needed.
• Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables.
• Confident using IT systems, in particular MS Teams and SharePoint, and willing to adapt to new software if and when needed.
• Capacity to carry out the role and deliver at least two PACC sessions a month (commitment of a minimum of 4 hours a month).

Desirable

• Knowledge of the principles of Motivational Interviewing techniques

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Department of Health & Social Care

Address

Quarry House

Quarry Hill

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS2 7UE

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care (Opens in a new tab)