Employer South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trust Head Quarters Town Crawley Salary Dependant on experience Closing 19/05/2024 23:59
Chief Paramedic Officer
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.
Job overview
Our work environment is demanding, high intensity and rewarding in equal measure and spans four Integrated Care Systems requiring a high degree of resilience and a commitment to collaborative working both within and outside the Trust.
As Chief Paramedic Officer you will provide expert leadership, professional advice, strategic clinical advice, and advocacy in consideration of matters regarding quality and safety matters relating to paramedicine.
A vital focus for the role will be the delivery of a positive culture across the Trust underpinned by our values.
Working with your Chief Medical Officer and Director of Quality and Nursing colleagues, you will lead professional standards across the Trust and ensure paramedics, ambulance clinicians, AHPs and our managers and people have access to world-class training, education, and professional development.
As executive director responsible for Trust wide education and organisational learning you will define and embed our vision for excellence and evidence-based learning across all staff and leadership groups for training and education.
NOTE: the Trust is in a period of transition and has an ambition to establish clinical leadership for its delivery functions. As Chief Paramedic Officer you will champion and take an active leadership role in this future model.
Main duties of the job
Key Outputs and deliverables in your first 12 months
* Clinical and leadership education strategy
* Review and redesign the function Operating Model to establish and embed the work of the Directorate at the heart of the organsiation
* Working with executive colleagues set out a roadmap for the Trust’s sustainable culture transformation programme and deliverables role-modelling collaborative and inclusive ways of working
Please review the candidate application pack and job description for further information.
Working for our organisation
* NHS employees will be eligible to join the NHS Pension Scheme
* A minimum 27 days holiday each year, increasing with service.
* Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
* Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
* Access to our award-winning Wellbeing services
* Access to occupational health and counselling services.
* Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What you’ll bring as essential
* Registered Paramedic professional
* Master’s Degree
* Significant post registration experience and evidence of continuous professional development
* Robust understanding of the operation of a unitary Board with significant exposure to Board and sub-committee working
* Demonstrable experience as a senior leader delivery change and transition whilst maintaining high clinical and operational safety and standards
* A track record of direct responsibility for budgets and teams, adept at delivering high quality services whilst balancing service and financial pressures
* Experience of developing the services of an organisation to deliver long-term sustainable and customer focused provision
* Strong educational skills and an understanding of educational policy and research and deep understanding on how to effectively train, educate and effectively evaluate educational initiatives
* A supportive, nurturing, and facilitative approach to the portfolio that allows others to come forward and succeed
Person specification
Qualifications/Experience
* Registered Paramedic professional and substantial demonstrable relevant professional experience
* Significant post-registration experience and evidence of continuous professional development
* Demonstrable experience as a senior leader delivery change and transiting whilst maintaining high clinical and operational safety and standards.
Experience
* Experience of developing the services of an organisation to deliver long-term sustainable and customer-focused provision.
* Strong educational skills and an understanding of educational policy and research and deep understanding of how to train, educate and evaluate educational initiatives effectively.
* A supportive, nurturing, and facilitative approach to the portfolio that allows to come forward and succeed.
Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.
Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.
In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.
Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.
The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.
We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.
The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable. We are a committed Disability Confident Employer and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.
When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.
Please note that under our Trust policies, were unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.
The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.
If you have previously applied for this role and were deemed not appointable at any stage of the recruitment process, you cannot normally apply for the same or similar role for a minimum of six months from the date of application. This is to allow time for the candidate to receive feedback and undergo the appropriate development.
Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact recruitment@secamb.nhs.uk stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.
When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history.
Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.
Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.
Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.
If you are a current SECAmb employee and applying for a substantive position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. If you are currently paid under Annex 5 and this post is the same banding as your current role, you can request to remain on Annex 5, or move to Section 2.
Section 2 unsocial hours will automatically be paid via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicatedSection 2 page on The Zon e .
If you are a current SECAmb employee and applying for a Secondment/Acting Up position, this would not be classed as a permanent change to your terms and conditions so if your application is successful, your current unsocial hours arrangements will not change for the duration of the secondment/acting up period.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Finn McNulty Job title Recruitment Partner Email address fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.com Telephone number 07966 006091 Additional information
Applications should be made by submitting a full and up to date CV, with a covering letter of no more than two sides of A4.
Your supporting statement should give evidence of how you meet the requirements of the person specification relating to the role.
Along with your application please include:
* Contact details for up to four referees (who will not be contacted without your permission)
* A contact email address and telephone number
* A completed Diversity Monitoring Form
* A completed Fit and Proper Persons Monitoring Form
Please send completed applications to apply@hunter-healthcare.com. All applications will be acknowledged.
Hunter Healthcare are working with SECAmb to recruit to this new position.
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