Physical Activity Clinical ChampionNHS

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.

Job description

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.

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