About this role
Job summary
The role of the Physical Activity Clinical Champion (PACC) is to organise and deliver clinician to clinician training on physical activity called Championing Movement for Health to other NHS healthcare professionals. The training particularly focuses on the management and prevention of long-term conditions and how to support healthcare professionals improve patient care and outcomes.As a national PACC and practising clinician you will work closely with the central PACC team, and team of national PACCs, to deliver the peer-to-peer training online across the country and locally through online and face to face sessions. You will be part of a larger network of national, place-based and Specialist Registrar PACCs delivering core PACC training and condition specific slide sets. You will make use of your own networks and build relationships with local and regional stakeholders and organisations, support an online national PACC Forum, and encourage healthcare professionals across the country to continue to develop their knowledge and skills.
You will strengthen national capacity and leadership for physical activity by supporting the development of PACC training materials and other capacity building resources such podcasts and contribute towards reducing health inequalities by working across the healthcare sector to improve awareness of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of long-term conditions.
Main duties of the job
To deliver Physical Activity Clinical Champion (PACC) educational training and resources for community and patient facing healthcare professionals across the country.
To strengthen national capacity and leadership for physical activity by supporting the development of PACC training materials and other capacity building resources.
To contribute towards reducing health inequalities by working across the healthcare sector to improve awareness of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of long-term conditions. Recognising the complexity of enabling people to get physically active and that wider determinants of health affect people differently.
About us
Sheffield Hallam Universitys Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), is a world-leading research and innovation centre for physical activity. It provides business, industry and the public sector with access to state-of-the-art, fully instrumented indoor and outdoor laboratories and a team of over 70 researchers from multi-academic disciplines delivering collaborative projects.
As a centrepiece of Sheffields Olympic Legacy Park, the work of the AWRC encourages and enables people to be more active and adopt healthier lifestyles, delivering innovations that help people move by bringing together:
Multi-disciplinary academic expertise from sports and materials engineering, psychology, health and social care and software development
Commercial partners including global businesses and dynamic SME businesses
The local community within the Sheffield City Region which is a microcosm of the UK population in terms of its cultural and ethnic diversity
Job description Job responsibilities
Deliver the peer-to-peer training online across the country and locally through online and face to face sessions.
To build relationships and engage with local networks, including healthcare and community providers, Active Partnerships and Public Health teams to explore opportunities for collaboration, promote the role of physical activity and promote training for relevant workforces.
To promote local physical activity signposting through referrals into national and local physical activity pathways and capture insight and learning to shape delivery of the pathway.
Support the national online PACC Forum community of practice to encourage sharing of ideas, learning and knowledge using Moving Medicine community of practice infrastructure.
To encourage healthcare professionals in the PACC Forum and your locality to continue to develop their knowledge and skills and, where appropriate, encourage others to deliver education using PACC and other MHPP resources.
As a clinical champion a National PACC will:
Link with training leads in NHS trusts to identify training opportunities with their respective health professional cohorts and deliver a standard training package (which you will be trained to deliver) to groups of NHS HCPs in hospitals or in the community / primary care setting.
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 national, regional, and local levels.
Strengthen national capacity and leadership for physical activity by supporting the development of PACC training materials and other capacity building resources such podcasts and e-learning modules across the health system.
Engage with PACC 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.
Help to develop and support the PACC programme national marketing strategy and relevant collateral. Where applicable advocating at local and national events as required and able.
Support the evaluation of the programme by collecting data and ensuring timely completion of forms for each training session.
Travel as required and reasonable.
Person Specification
Essential Competencies Essential
Ability to inspire, enthuse and network with a range of external stakeholders including health care professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. Excellent communication skills and ability to develop and deliver transformative and innovative learning experiences. Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own work effectively. Team working Technological/digital proficiency with the ability to use IT systems including Microsoft Teams.
Desirable
Understanding of Motivational Interviewing techniques
Experience Essential
Experience of leading effectively in an environment of complex regulations and procedures. Experience of working in of clinical setting and demonstrates good clinical decision-making skills. Experience of disseminating complex knowledge e.g. research evidence or healthcare policy to clinical staff across a range of disciplines and levels. Experience of formal classroom /or clinical based teaching Ability to facilitate connections and build credible networks. Well-developed and current knowledge and understanding of critical, practical and theoretical issues relevant to current prevention healthcare policy, and the role of Physical Activity and its impact. Experience of promoting physical activity as a tool for primary and secondary prevention, and management of long-term conditions.
Desirable
Experience of developing or supporting online or face to face communities of practice. Knowledge of principles and practice of public health including health needs assessment and evidence base strategies to address health inequalities Knowledge of the national Physical Activity support landscape and ability to facilitate connections and build credible networks.
Qualifications Essential
Good honours degree (i.e. UK 2.1 or 1st Class), or equivalent professional qualification or experience in a relevant discipline. Member of relevant professional body e.g. NMC or HCPC Evidence of ongoing professional development
Desirable
Mentorship qualification Practice Teacher Qualification
Employer details Employer name Sheffield Hallam University
Address City Campus
Howard Street
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 1WB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.shu.ac.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)