Advanced Practice Directorate

This webinar was designed specifically for Line Managers, Operational Managers, and Organisation Directors across Mid and South Essex, spanning primary, community, secondary, and third sector organisations to offer insight into advanced practice roles in terms of employing and supporting them.

📅 Webinar Details

Duration: 75 minutes
Date Held: 5^th March 2025

🧠 Topics Covered:

• The critical role of enhanced and advanced practice in driving healthcare transformation
• Clear distinctions between enhanced and advanced practice
• The benefits and strategic value these roles bring to services and organisations
• How to integrate enhanced and advanced practice roles into workforce planning and develop compelling business cases
• Best practices for supporting training and development of registered healthcare professionals

🎙️ Presenters

Deborah Tebbs, MSEICB, Primary Care Advanced Practice Lead

Kirsten Dangerfield, MSEICB, Senior Head of Advanced Practice Directorate

Sophie Golding, MSEFT, Advanced Practice Lead

Heather Taylor-Smith, EPUT, Advanced Practice Lead

We were pleased to host a 90-minute webinar focused on the three non-clinical pillars of advanced level practice: Research, Education, and Leadership & Management.

This session was designed for anyone involved in multi-professional advanced level practice, including, aspiring, trainee, and qualified advanced practitioners, and educators, supervisors, and leaders in advanced practice.

📅 Webinar Details

Duration: 90 minutes
Date Held: 7^th November 2024

🧠 Topics Covered

• Practical insights and expert tips for developing non-clinical capabilities
• Shared experiences from professionals actively working in these areas
• Guidance on tackling the challenges often faced when fulfilling the non-clinical elements of advanced practice roles

🎙️ Presenters

Sarah Lennox, MSE Integrated Care Board, Senior Leadership and Innovation Manager [Education Pillar]

Tom Abell, MSE Integrated Care Board, Chief Executive Officer [Key Note Speaker]

Emily Hough, MSE Integrated Care Board, Director of Strategy and Corporate Services [Leadership Pillar]

Georgina Beetar, Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust (MSEFT), Research Quality Facilitator [Research Pillar]

This masterclass was aimed at clinical staff working with those in contact with frailty and long term conditions across Mid and South Essex and the wider East of England region.

📅 Webinar Details

Duration: 80 minutes
Date Held: 20th November 2025

🧠 Topics Covered

• Who are our real-world adult population here in the East of England?
• What workforce skills, competencies and new ways of working are needed to serve them?
• FrEDA and related training resources
• Frailty Case Study

🎙️ Presenters

Dr Sarah Zaidi, a GP in south east Essex and NHS England’s first Regional Clinical Lead for Frailty and Home First. Dr Zaidi holds clinical lead positions across Mid and South Essex for Frailty and Urgent Care, End of Life Care and the Virtual Hospital Programme.

Nadia Halley, Clinical Lead, Matron and Advanced Practitioner in an Integrated Neighbourhood Health Team in mid and south Essex.