- Evidenced achievements relevant qualifications (or equivalents), training, membership of professional bodies
- Degree-educated or equivalent
- Member of relevant professional body
- Evidence of continuing personal development
- Mentorship qualification
- Practice Teacher Qualification or relevant teaching experience within a clinical area.
- Evidence of leadership/management development
- Type of experience and specific knowledge required for this job
- Experience of working in a range of clinical settings and demonstrates good clinical decision-making 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
- Knowledge of principles and practice of public health including health needs assessment and evidence base strategies to address health inequalities.
- Knowledge of health care system
- 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.
- Skills and abilities required for effective performance numeracy, attention to detail, oral and written communication, planning and organising, leadership skills, ability to cope with conflicting demands/deadlines
- Exceptional online teaching and presentation skills, able to engage an 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.
- Understanding of Motivational Interviewing techniques
- An understanding of and experience of working within the places geographical location
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
- Capacity to work 2 days a week and able to work flexibly, to deliver sessions within and beyond usual 9-5 working hours when needed.
Place Based Physical Activity Clinical Champion, Oxfordshire - Kidlington, United Kingdom - Sheffield Hallam University
Description
Job summary
This place-based role is an exciting and dynamic position,within the national Physical Activity Clinical Champions Programme. You willplay a pivotal role in developing an innovative place-based approach to thishighly valued training programme.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Place-Based PACC is to organise and deliver clinician to clinician training on physical activity in clinical care to other NHS health care professionals, which supports them to improve patient care and outcomes. Supported by a national team and infrastructure, this is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a Sport England project evaluating a place-based approach.
About us
he Place-Based PACC will work closely with both Active Oxfordshire and the central PACC team, make use of their own networks and build relationships with local and regional stakeholders and organisations, developing a local online community of practice and encourage healthcare professionals in Oxfordshire to continue to develop their knowledge and skills.
As an experienced AHP, Nurse or Midwife, you will have current associated health care registration and very recent or ongoing clinical experience based within the Oxfordshire region. You will also ideally hold a teaching qualification or equivalent experience and demonstrate highly competent training and facilitation skills.
Proven knowledge of the role of physical activity as a tool for primary and secondary prevention and management of long-term conditions is essential, and a knowledge of principles and practice of public health including health needs assessment and evidence base strategies to address health inequalities is desirable.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Responsibilities
To deliver physical activity clinical champions educational training and resources for community and patient facing healthcare roles across the county.
To work across the multi-disciplinary, multi-professional healthcare sector in Oxfordshire to improve awareness of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of long-term conditions.
To build relationships and engage with local networks, including healthcare and community providers, to explore opportunities for collaboration, promote the role of physical activity and promote training for relevant workforces.
To work closely with Active Oxfordshire to gain local intelligence and insight across the team to inform decision making and determine priority areas to target, including working closely with Comms & Engagement team to develop relevant messages and marketing material.
To develop a local online community of practice with necessary small group forums to encourage sharing of ideas, learning and knowledge using Moving Medicine community of practice infrastructure.
To encourage healthcare professionals in Oxfordshire to continue to develop their knowledge and skills and, where appropriate, encourage others to deliver education using PACC and other MHPP resources.
To promote local physical activity signposting through referrals into the Move Together physical activity pathway and capture insight and learning to shape delivery of the pathway.
To evaluate delivery of the PACC training to demonstrate value and effectiveness and provide data to feedback to our commissioners.
As a clinical champion the Place-based PACC 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 PACC programme within Oxfordshire and work strategically with Active Oxfordshire to support effective delivery of the local Move Together physical activity pathway.
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.
Help to develop and support the national PACC programme advocating at local, and where applicable, National events as required and able.
Recognise the complexity of enabling people to get physically active; that wider determinants of health affect people differently; and that work of PACCs should contribute towards reducing health inequalities.
Engage with PACC 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.
Travel as required and reasonable.
Person SpecificationQualifications
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Experience
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