North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Are you interested in becoming a Medical Appraiser?
Help support the ongoing development and support for our medical workforce through appraisal and revalidation.
We are inviting applications to recruit AFC Senior Appraisal Officers via the NCIC Bank to join our established medical appraiser team. This is a fantastic development opportunity to enhance your career.
The minimum number of appraisals we'd like you to do is 6 annually in an appraisal year with 4 hours per appraisal allocated.
A fully paid training package, which has been developed by the CD for appraisals covers: Good medical practice framework, links with revalidation, conducting a medical appraisal, drawing up a PDP, etc.
It is an excellent opportunity for a specialist AFC practitioner to further enhance and develop skills, knowledge, and experience out with own professional/clinical boundaries by leading, coaching, and facilitating a medical appraisal for Medical colleagues.
The successful candidate/s will utilise specialist extensive knowledge of AFC appraisals, supervision, and management to assist the medical appraisal team with the delivery and development of continuous quality improvement of this project to develop new innovative processes/systems of supporting medical staff through the appraisal process. Full training will be given as well as ongoing support.
Main duties of the job
Provide a key appraiser role in the Medical Appraiser system by autonomously leading and conducting medical appraisals. You will be expected to carry out a minimum of 6 medical appraisals within the standard appraisal year (from 1 April to 31 March) to maintain competency, skills, and knowledge.
The post holder will be expected to be flexible in offering face-to-face appraisals or via Microsoft Teams depending on appraisee preference and travel to training and peer group meetings or attending online. The post holder will be expected to be self-motivated and highly reflective and able to guide own ongoing learning and development as well as supporting quality reflection and development in appraisees.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high-quality care every time':
* Being a clinically led organisation
* Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
* A positive patient experience every time
* A great place to work
* Managing our money well
As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria, we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters, Degree or equivalent Professional/ Management/Leadership qualification or relevant experience
* Knowledge and expertise across one or more specialised areas, acquired through master's degree level or equivalent qualification/experience plus additional managerial knowledge in staff management, supervision, appraisal
* Essential IT skills (EITS) or equivalent
* Coaching/mentoring qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
* Significant experience of leading strategic/operational teams and processes to tight deadlines within NHS or other large complex organisations
* Experience of Project Management
* Implementation of national and local policy, procedures, and guidelines including current NHS performance agenda
* Highly specialist knowledge of staff management, supervision, appraisal, training, and development
* Highly specialist knowledge of the use of analytics and interpreting complex information to support the development of staff/workforce/services. Proven track record of implementing initiatives/projects within complex environments.
* Ability to deliver innovative workforce solutions that meet business needs. Experience of managing and tracking budgets
* Extensive experience and knowledge of management of change
* Experience of Organisation development/change management tools and techniques
* Training, supervising, and developing others
* Supporting staff health and wellbeing
* Clinical and corporate Governance
* Evidence-based practice
* Continuing professional development with portfolio
* Acute/Community hospital experience
* Project management
* Clinical governance
Skills and Aptitudes
* Excellent communication skills, oral, written, presentational, and personal; ability to present complex issues to both managers, colleagues, and staff.
* Excellent negotiation and presentation skills
* Excellent leadership skills with an ability to develop and motivate team working and promoting an inclusive culture
* Excellent analytical skills with ability to grasp detail
* Able to use persuasive argument to influence others outside of own area
* Effective decision-making skills and ability to effectively resolve conflict
* Innovative approach to problem-solving, including analysing, evaluating options, and making recommendations.
* Exhibits drive, enthusiasm, and resilience to identify and implement innovative improvements and creative in producing future service developments
* Confident and able to create effective working relationships within the team and the wider organisation
* Ability to manage a wide variety of HR/people issues
* Ability to prioritise own work to meet deadlines
Other Requirements
* Ability to travel to attend meetings and events across Cumbria
* Post-holder will be expected to work across multiple sites
* Promote equality and value diversity (Level 3)
* Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity (Level 4)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Head of Medical Directorate Support Service
£46,148 to £52,809 a year Per annum pro rata
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