Paramedic/Ambulance Nurse Clinical Supervisor - West Norfolk in King's Lynn

EEAST is a great place to work, offering great people, career opportunities, and a varied and supportive environment.

Job overview:

• Vacancies: 2 WTE Vacancies Central Cambridgeshire Locality (Huntingdon Hub)
• Applicants will be required to work on a 24/7 Rota
• To respond using emergency driving skills and manage emergency calls/incidents as allocated including emergencies, urgent calls, inter-hospital transfers and other allocated operational details commensurate with their role and responsibilities.
• The Clinical Supervisor will provide practice education, support and coaching for a group of clinical staff.
• This could be as part of a Mentoring & Support Training Team (MSTT) vehicle or in a scheduling support capacity to enable them to work alongside specific groups of approximately 20 people on an ongoing basis.
• The Clinical Supervisor (Practice Quality) will support the breadth of clinical staff including those that are post-registration or qualification.
• The role will allow for appraisal of clinical practice and will focus on supporting colleagues to enhance their patient care approaches.

Main duties of the job:

• The postholder is required to comply fully with Trust operational arrangements and clinical guidelines and procedures, to respond promptly to instructions from dispatch and senior staff.
• Work autonomously as an independent health care practitioner, guided by precedent and clearly defined operating guidelines, procedures, protocols and code of conduct.
• To provide supervision of staff during their training period (including NQP’s) influencing their development and guiding them through clinical procedures.
• Participate in clinical supervision and development of other less qualified, or less experienced clinical staff assisting in their clinical development and facilitating their continuing professional development.
• To ensure they maintain current and effective registration with the Health and Care Professions Council with particular reference to the Standards of Proficiency for Paramedics and Conduct, Performance and Ethics.
• Participate in clinical supervision and development of other less qualified, or less experienced clinical staff assisting in their clinical development and facilitating their continuing professional development.

Working for our organisation:

• EEAST employs over 5,000 staff with a further 1,000+ volunteers who cover 7,500 square miles and care for a population of more than 6 million.
• Our three control rooms in Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Essex handle more than 1 million 999 calls every year, over 2,500 calls a day.
• We manage a fleet of over 1,000 vehicles including double staffed ambulances, rapid response cars, operational commander response vehicles, patient transport and support service vehicles.
• The East of England works alongside 17 Acute Trusts with Accident & Emergency services and a Major Trauma Centre in Cambridge.
• Access is available to neighbouring MTCs such as those in London.

Our core values:

• Care - We value warmth, empathy and compassion in all our relationships.
• Teamwork - Together as one, we work with pride and commitment to achieve our vision.
• Quality - We strive to consistently achieve high standards through continuous improvement.
• Respect - We value individuals, including our patients, our staff and our partners in every interaction.
• Honesty - We value a culture that has trust, integrity and transparency at the centre of everything we do.

Our 4 goals are:

• Be an exceptional place to work, volunteer and learn.
• Provide outstanding quality of care and performance.
• Be excellent collaborators and innovators as system partners.
• Be an environmentally and financially sustainable organisation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Undertake clinical practice supervision of the band three to band seven emergency operations clinical workforce (excluding specialist practice).
• Use GRS to plan/schedule and undertake practice supervision shifts within the local emergency operations workforce.
• Liaise with the Area Clinical Practice Specialist and Sector Clinical Practice Specialist to inform individual development plans where required.
• To undertake supportive conversations and welfare checks of staff, offering support and signposting the staff members to appropriate support services.
• To provide feedback and support to those undertaking practice education support.
• To identify and escalate any concerns or additional support needed as and when required.
• To administer the Clinical Supervision programme, including but not limited to data collection, providing comprehensive reports as required, meeting notes etc.

Person specification:

Qualifications

• Essential criteria:
• Paramedic registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (or superseding body) or Nurse registered with NMC or equivalent. Must be outside of any preceptorship phase.
• Qualified IHCD Emergency Driving (D2) or superseding award.
• Full UK Driving Licence including C1 category with up to 6 penalty points for SP30 driving offences.
• Have successfully completed the EEAST Mentorship Qualification or external Practice Educator Qualification.
• Desirable criteria:
• To have a CAVA or equivalent assessor qualification.
• Hold qualifications in teaching or learning (PTTLS or equivalent).
• PHTLS.
• PHPLS.
• Advanced Life Support.
• Diploma/Degree in Paramedic Science or equivalent.
• College of Paramedics member or equivalent.

Knowledge and Experience

• Essential criteria:
• Established knowledge of practice education and practice based mentorship.
• Decision maker.

Personal Qualities, Abilities and Attributes

• Essential criteria:
• Committed to ensuring patients receive a high standard of patient care.
• Ability to motivate others.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.
• You will be required to hold a full UK manual driving licence with a minimum of 1 years driving experience (maximum of 3 penalty points for minor motoring offences only).

Occupational Health: Applicants are advised that EEAST adheres to the recommendations of the Department of Health Medical Advisory Panel relating to health standards for frontline emergency response roles.

Disclosure and Barring Service check: This position involves regulated activity which will require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at enhanced level with child and adult barred list check.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Under the Trust's commitment 'Positive about Disabled People', if you consider yourself as having a disability and you meet the minimum selection criteria for any post, you will get an automatic interview.

We aim to represent and value the diversity of our local communities through our workforce and service provision. We therefore positively encourage applications, regardless of age, race, religion & belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity or disability.