Connecting People Connecting Support AHP Clinical Lead

THIS VACANCY IS ONLY OPEN TO CURRENT EMPLOYEES OF NHS AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN

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What you will do:

You will provide professional AHP leadership, strategic direction and expert leadership on all aspects of AHP clinical practice and care of people with Dementia across the AHP patient pathway in NHS Ayrshire & Arran. You will have a specific remit to work with AHPs across all sectors to improve the support they provide to people with dementia and their Carers. This will involve working across professional and organisational boundaries, in partnership and in collaboration with others including service users, carers, health professionals, social work, voluntary sector staff, and local education providers.

You will focus upon and lead  the work around Connecting Care Connecting Support and ensure the completion of the following locally:

1. Lived Experience. Engagement with people with lived experience to review the impact of CPCS to their own experience of AHP’s locally holding a range of “listening” sessions in a range of settings.
2. Promoting Excellence. A local scope of the skills of their AHP workforce from across both health and social care as mapped to Promoting Excellence. From this a local baseline measure and action plan would be developed and begin delivery  ​​​​​​
3. Local context. The development of local engagement events, integrating appreciative inquiry and review current delivery of ambitions in CPCS. From this a local and or national baseline measure and action plan would be developed and refocus delivery   ​​​​​​

The results of these baseline surveys will form development of an AHP action plan to support the delivery of the 4 ambitions in Connecting People, Connecting Support to meet local population need and local dementia strategies.

For further information on the role please click the link below to view the job description

Knowledge, training and/or experience required to do the job:

• Current AHP registration with associated professional regulatory body
• Previous experience of working at a senior level (Band 6 and above).
• Educated to Masters level or able to demonstrate current level of award (minimum post graduate certificate or evidence of other relevant training and be working towards MSc level).
• Highly developed specialist knowledge in dementia.
• High level of competence and excellence in professional leadership, expert practice, strategic planning / service development, education and training, and research and development.
• Have detailed knowledge of relevant legislation, guidelines, national and local strategy.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

For further information on the requirements for the role please click the link below to view the person specification

Hours: 7.5 per week

​​​​​​​This is a fixed term/secondment opportunity for 12 months.

If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Alistair Reid, Director of Allied Health Professions,  Alistair.Reid@aapct.scot.nhs.uk or Sharon Hackney, AHP Senior Manager (North Ayrshire), sharon.hackney@aapct.scot.nhs.uk ​​​​​​​

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