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Are you an experienced Advanced or Consultant Practitioner who is looking for their next challenge? Are you ready to lead Dorset Integrated Care System in their approach to Advanced Practice?

Do you have a clear vision of how Advanced Practice can be developed further across the system maximising the Advanced Practice role within our workforce?

Dorset Integrated Care System are looking for a dynamic and inspirational leader to work across the Integrated Care System to shape and further develop Multi-professional Advanced Practice.

We are looking for a compassionate, ambitious and committed leader to bring together the fantastic work to date in Advanced Practice across Dorset.

You will be a registered Healthcare professional with an MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent experience. You will provide system wide leadership to the development of Advanced and Advancing Practice opportunities and a consistent approach across Dorset Integrated Care System supporting organisations and partners in developing, a multi-professional ICS Advanced practice strategy for Dorset linked to whole workforce planning.

Working in collaboration with Advanced Practice leads, system partners and Health Education England South West you will gain an accurate understanding of the multi-professional Advanced Practice workforce and opportunities that are available to those working in AP roles, or who are upskilling through AP in the local system.

This is a great opportunity to join NHS Dorset ICS system work as part of a secondment or fixed term contract working part time and so having the potential to remain in practice as well as lead this work. This role is approx. 20 hours a week working remotely and across sites and partner organisations in Dorset.     

In order to be successful in this position you will be an established Advanced or Consultant Practitioner with an MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent experience and have experience of working across the 4 pillars of Advanced Practice.

You will have been a senior leader in the NHS or similar setting and have experience in managing programmes and projects in an organisation and have experience of system working.

Candidates selected for interview are required to prepare a 15 minute presentation in their prefered style on "What do you believe are the key factors that would be in place accross the Integrated Care System (ICS) for the successful development of Trainee and qualified Advanced Practitioners?"

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Our Mission

Using our clinical understanding, we strive to lead continuous improvements to health and care services in Dorset. Our key mission is to support people in Dorset to lead healthier lives, for longer.

This mission sets out our ultimate purpose. It defines what we must aim to achieve every day, through every decision and every interaction we have as an organisation. It also incorporates our vision statement. Our mission statement is explained as follows:

• 'Supporting people' reflects our role of commissioning services for those who fall ill and in preventing illness in the first place. It also recognises the need for us to support people to manage their own health and to work with them to do this successfully.
• We have a duty of care for all people while they are 'in Dorset' - not just Dorset residents.
• 'Healthier lives' is the ultimate outcome we are aiming for. It reflects a need to prevent illness (e.g. through education), as well as recognising the need to provide timely services for everyone.

As a clinical commissioning group we have a responsibility as leaders within the health economy. Our unique position as clinicians also allows us to view things differently.

We already have an excellent health service in Dorset but, excellent services can still, and must, be improved to reflect a continually changing economy and society. By using our clinical understanding and different perspective we can drive continuous improvements, not just in health care but across all services within Dorset.