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1 JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title Directorate Nurse Clinical Champion Health and Wellbeing Pay Band PAYE or umbrella per 4 hour half day. Hours/Sessions per month Job Type (i.e. fixed term/permanent) 12 hours per month (3 four hour sessions) N.B. This post may be undertaken alongside a substantive full or part-time contract Fixed term sessional rate April 2017 to March 2018 Responsible to Accountable to Base / Location Deputy National Lead for Adult Health and Wellbeing Deputy National Lead for Adult Health and Wellbeing Home / To work across one of nine PHE Centre areas in England

2 Introduction Public Health England provides strategic leadership and vision for protecting and improving the nation s health. Its ambition is to lead nationally and enable locally a transformation in the health expectations of all people in England regardless of where they live and the circumstance of their birth. It will achieve this through the application of research, knowledge and skills. Public Health England is an executive agency of the Department of Health, and started on 1 April It is a distinct delivery organisation with operational autonomy to advise and support Government, local authorities and the NHS in a professionally independent manner. Background Health & Wellbeing Directorate The Health and Wellbeing Directorate will lead Public Health England s work to improve health and wellness across England. We will lead an integrated approach across the health and care system to: Improve the population s health, deliver key services for social marketing and behaviour change campaigns, screening and immunisation, and support the NHS Commissioning Board in relation to its population health role; and address the social determinants as well as risk factors where action will drive behaviour change. The working principles guide us to ensure we demonstrate: our advocacy for a health across the life course approach one that acknowledges the significance of the key transition points in life from infancy and childhood, through teenage years, to adulthood, working life, retirement and the end of life our advocacy for a health in all places approach one that acknowledges our understanding that where and how individuals live, work, play and pray matter and are major determinants of their health and wellbeing, especially those people at greater risk of health disparities. our recognition of the primacy of local action prompted and led by Local Authorities and their partners in localities across the health and care system focus on the needs of the poorest and the most poorly, taking a population approach with focused work on communities/groups in greater need focus on the needs of the poorest and the most poorly, whilst ensuring that all have access to the information, interventions and services needed to make informed choices to protect and improve their health recognition of the contribution, and tackling of the wider determinants of health - encompassing: social, structural, cultural, economic, psychological and environmental factors a holistic, integrated and evidence-based approach to addressing and promoting lifestyle behaviour's - recognising that people may have multiple needs, and must be educated and empowered to choose health parity in addressing mental health as well as physical health the relevance of our action for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention

3 Job Purpose/Summary: The role of the Nurse Clinical Champion is to deliver the successful Physical Activity Clinical Champion peer education programme to a nursing audience. The Clinical Champion programme is peer-to-peer training that aims to raise the awareness of the role of physical activity in the prevention, treatment and management of health conditions among healthcare professionals and support clinicians to make every contact count towards reducing inactivity and supporting patients into active lives. This new role will closely mirror that of the existing GP Clinical Champions who deliver standardised training to qualified and trainee doctors and other health professionals. This material has proved suitable for training nurses and other allied health professionals. However, the peer-to-peer nature of the training has been identified as a critical component of the programme. Therefore, this post will be one of the new posts working as a team across each PHE Centre area responsible for expanding the reach of the programme into new clinical areas and maximising the impact with a nursing audience. Nurses will have current NMC registration and very recent or ongoing clinical experience. They will also meet NMC standards to support learning and assessment in practice. The post holder will provide professional leadership working with partners, including Local Authorities, CCGs, NMC, RCN and other health and social care organisations. They will improve public health through driving behavioural changes towards healthier lifestyles, helping fellow professionals to support individuals to take more responsibility for their health and initiating a culture shift with respect to physical activity within the nursing profession. The Clinical Champion will deliver a scalable training package, either as stand-alone training or within an existing training programme. They will be part of a multi-disciplinary network of Clinical Champions within a defined geographical area, all delivering training across a number of different NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups and social care organisations. They will support a step change in the use of physical activity promotion as a first line treatment and prevention tool in nursing practice across the life-course. Nurse champions will also lead by example and encourage their peers to do so too. The Clinical Champion will be expected to: Engage with local education leads to secure bookings for teaching sessions, preferably embedded within existing education programmes for nurses and nursing/mdt teams Deliver the standardised training modules in these educational sessions to a high quality, fidelity and professional standard Work with the PHE Centre lead and local authority public health teams to maximise the potential for collaboration around local signposting and where possible consecutive teaching slots Work with the other Clinical Champions in the Centre area to ensure that teaching sessions are delivered effectively and share local learning Work with the other Clinical champions in the Centre area to develop and support a local network of engaged clinicians through virtual media and on-going engagement Take responsibility for gathering the pre and post teaching evaluation questionnaires and providing a reflection note following each training session Working with the evaluation team, where requested, to maximise the learning from the Clinical Champion programme The Clinical Champion will be supported by the national Adult Health and Wellbeing Team and by their local PHE Centre Physical Activity Lead. They will provide mutual peer support to other medical and nursing champions in their area. Nurse champions will also lead by example and encourage their peers to do so too. The post holder will be expected to work in partnership across PHE and with external organisations and strategic partners to support collaborations that build the social movement for physical activity in clinical care across the landscape of clinicians. The role reports to a senior nurse within the Health and Wellbeing Directorate. This post is funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing with the primary objective of improving men s health and so there will be a particular focus on services that specifically target men or where the burden of disease is higher in men.

4 Main duties and responsibilities As a clinical champion the post-holder will: Strengthen local capacity and leadership for physical activity by delivering an average of three peer-to-peer training sessions per month across one of nine geographical areas of England (North East, North West, Yorkshire and Humber, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England, London, South East or South West). Provide clinical leadership within the Clinical Champions programme which is a core component of delivery of Everybody Active Every Day, and is central to Public Health England s priorities and core business, 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 regional and local levels. Engage with PHE 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.

5 Communication and key working relationships Networks and Communications Internal PHE Centre lead for physical activity PHE Clinical Champion team and wider network of PHE Clinical Champions PHE Adult Health and Wellbeing Team and the National Lead for Adult Health and Wellbeing PHE Communications team PHE Life Course Teams PHE Healthy People Healthy Places Team Health and Wellbeing Directorate PHE Regional offices and PHE Centres External NHS Community Trusts: Chief nurses and nursing and medical education leads NHS Hospitals Local authorities Professional bodies Health and social care organisations Health Education England NHS England Academic institutions Social enterprises, charities and other non-governmental organisations Professional development You should pursue a programme of continuous professional development in accordance with any relevant professional registration or statutory requirements, whilst maintaining appropriate awareness of service provider requirements.

6 Person Specification Factors Description Essential Desirable Assessment* Education/ Qualification Relevant professional clinical qualification e.g. NMC Registered Nurse with current and valid registration C/A Post graduate qualification in related field e.g. MSc Public Health or equivalent Meet NMC practice teacher standard, or be working towards A Evidence of continuing professional development and evidence of progress with Revalidation requirements A

7 Experience Experience of delivering organising and co-ordinating learning activities primarily in practice learning environments for preregistration students, postregistration students and those moving into a level beyond initial registration. Demonstrable relevant experience in a health care setting Experience of engaging motivating and leading individuals and teams and managing change Understanding of principles of population health improvement Experience managing a project with measurable deliverables to time and within agreed resources Experience of auditing your professional practice Quantifying and reporting on output of your role & measuring impact of interventions.

8 Knowledge and skills Excellent communication skills including written, oral and presentation skills Proficient user of Microsoft office applications including word, excel, and PowerPoint Excellent ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and the wider multi agency partnership, both locally, regionally and when required nationally. Ability to manage and prioritise a varied and competing workload and meet service deadlines Effective professional demeanor and influencing skills Evidence of effective report writing Demonstrable leadership in your field of practice Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do Values and Behaviours Essential Desirable Assessment Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same Assessment will take place with reference to the following information A = Application Form I = Interview C = Certificate