Consultant Practitioner - Urgent and Emergency Care

at  Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

We have a clear purpose - to provide and coordinate safe, effective, responsive and patient-centred out-of-hospital emergency, urgent and non-emergency care, so all our patients can have the best possible experience and outcomes. The Consultant Practitioner role strengthens clinical leadership in our services, including developing specialist and advanced practice in the Trust and a vacancy has arisen for this post within the Humber and North Yorkshire area.
The post holder will be instrumental in our clinical engagement with health, social care and tri-services partners in the delivery of integrated care and play a key part in influencing the clinical direction of our organisation. The successful candidate will have a strong clinical background within the field of pre-hospital urgent and emergency care. They will be highly experienced clinicians, with well-developed leadership skills and a strong track record of collaborative working to drive improvements in patient care.
The post holder will be a key player in our area leadership team and act as our senior representative of the Trust in clinical networks across the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) area, working across teams to influence clinical strategy and the development of patient care.
The postholder will work within a matrix structure, playing a key part in leading, influencing and delivering the clinical direction for the organisation. The work will be primarily within the defined area of an Integrated Care System footprint but the post will also contribute
significantly to clinical leadership across the Trust.

BENEFITS:

• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes (salary dependent)
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.
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  Please see the attached job description for the person specification and main responsibilities for this role

Have clinical expertise and experience within the field of urgent and emergency care
Demonstrate compassionate and inclusive leadership, in line with YAS values.
Demonstrate exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
Be politically astute and able to influence and persuade
Demonstrate a track record of leading or contributing to quality improvement, audit or research in the field or urgent and emergency care
Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.
We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.
We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.
Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.