Clinical Effectiveness Lead – Dementia

Overview

Post: Clinical Effectiveness Lead - Dementia

Location: National Headquarters, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB. Candidates will be able to work remotely as travel may be required throughout Scotland.

Salary: Band 7 Ranging from (£52,845 - £61,466) per annum, dependent upon experience.

Hours per week: 36hrs consideration will be given to candidates who would like to work both full or part time.

Employment Type: 1 year fixed term or secondment

This is an exciting, newly created opportunity to provide leadership and strategic direction through the implementation of Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy and associated Delivery Plan. The post holder will support implementation of the Scottish Ambulance Service Dementia Delivery Plan. This will include interpreting national policy, professional standards and applying these to lead and inform development of local strategies and policy that ensure a robust response across the Service.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inform development of local dementia strategies and policy in line with national strategy and Delivery Plans.
• Interpret national policy and professional standards to support service delivery for dementia.
• Collaborate with local and national dementia networks; demonstrate leadership in dementia.
• Provide guidance and direction to teams; contribute to quality improvement, practice development, research or policy and clinical practice.
• Engage with stakeholders and facilitate networking and project management across the service.

Qualifications and experience

• Be a registered allied health professional or nurse with significant experience in dementia.
• Clinician engaged with local and national dementia networks; demonstrated leadership in dementia.
• Educated to degree level with postgraduate or equivalent relevant qualifications; extensive clinical experience (more than 5 years) and experience of teaching, coaching or mentoring staff in dementia settings.
• Post holder will be responsible to the Dementia Lead and have significant autonomy in their role.
• Registered with the HCPC, NMC or equivalent.
• Demonstrate achievement in areas of quality, practice development, research or policy and clinical practice.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills; ability to manage change, flexibility and ability to work independently.
• Facilitation, problem solving, networking and project management skills.

Other information

For informal discussion, please contact Karen Thom, Dementia Lead, Mental Health and Dementia Team

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As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.

Please note that SAS is NOT licensed to issue certificates of sponsorship under current UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) regulations. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship to work with us.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.