Paramedic / Ambulance Nurse Clinical Supervisor - South Herts

East of England Ambulance Service Trust, Watford

Paramedic / Ambulance Nurse Clinical Supervisor - South Herts

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East of England Ambulance Service Trust, Watford

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 4 days ago, 18 Dec | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 759a8f882ed145dda7d0b11b974deff3

Full Job Description

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 will be in a scheduling support capacity to enable them to work alongside specific groups of clinical staff 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., 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.
Participate in clinical supervision and development of 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., 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
For full job description and persons specification, please see attached documents.
References and Employment History: All references from current and previous employers, will be sought via their Human Resources Department and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and email address of the Human Resources Department and indicate your current/previous line manager and their departmental details.
All appointments will be subject to currently having a clean disciplinary record.
Please be advised that a No Smoking Policy is in operation throughout the Trust.
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. By minimum selection criteria we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates the essential requirements as set out in the person specification and advertisement for a post.

EEAST employs over 5,000 staff with a further 1,000+ volunteers who between them 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