AngularJS - Using directives to allow jQuery click event to fire ng-click

I want to use $(selector).trigger('click') to trigger the ng-click event on that element.

I think I want to use a directive to do this, but I'm not sure how to do it. Here's kind of what I was thinking:

.directive('jClick', function() { return { restrict : 'A', scope: { 'ngClick' : '&' }, link: function($scope, element) { return element.bind('click', function(){ $scope.ngClick({order : $scope.order}); }); } }; }) 

Not only does it not work, it breaks my app completely. The scenario (if it helps) is this:

I have an list of expandable zippies that expand when the function in my ng-click is called (ng-click="expand(order)").

I have a function that checks if there is a hash at the end of my current url like:

example.com#/my/route/params#83947 

(I'm keeping the second hash separate from the $routeParams because they serve different purposes.)

I use a function to check if that second hash is there and scroll down the page to the corresponding list item. That all works fine, but I want it to expand that list item too hence my desire to trigger that ng-click.