NHS
Clinical Director for Advancing Practice
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Job Description
- Req#: C9842-25-0213?language=en&page=480&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Organisation/system level Leadership experience
- Advanced Practice MSc or equivalent
- Experience as Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Specialist knowledge of the education and development requirements for Advancing Practice
- Evidence of mentoring, supervising and teaching
- Involvement in service improvement and implementation of best practice
- Organisation/system level Leadership experience
- Advanced Practice MSc or equivalent
- Experience as Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Specialist knowledge of the education and development requirements for Advancing Practice
- Evidence of mentoring, supervising and teaching
- Involvement in service improvement and implementation of best practice
Job summary
We're looking for a part-time (22.5 to 30hpw) Advanced Practice Masters level professional to provide professional oversight of, and strategic input into, Advancing Practice (incorporating Advanced and Enhanced levels of practice) across Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS). You will be responsible for defining, implementing and assuring best practice across DCHS. You'll act as a catalyst for change in practice and service development, supportively challenging professional and organisational boundaries to generate solutions which best meet the needs of professionals and patients in the evolving and increasingly complex community healthcare environment. You'll be expected to promote multi-professional working and Generalism, taking patient-centred approaches to care and supporting strengths based, holistic solutions. Representing DCHS, our practitioners and patients at a Derbyshire level within the Derbyshire Workforce Academy, ensuring that our perspectives, needs and priorities are articulated, supporting and working for the achievement of organisation and system strategies.
Interviews are scheduled for the morning of Wednesday 21st May, in person, at Ripley Hospital.
Main duties of the job
You will work alongside the Clinical Director for Multi-Professional Development to oversee the Multi-Professional Practice Development Team (MPDT) and be a joint budget holder for this team with line management responsibility for the four Development Leads within MPDT who each hold management responsibility for key areas of Advancing Practice across the organisation and wider Derbyshire System.
You will be responsible for providing clinical leadership for Advancing Practitioners across the organisation, who will be working in multiple services, roles and divisions, from Nursing and Allied Health Professional (AHP) backgrounds. This will require communication of complex information regarding service transformation and re-design which may be unwelcome, distressing or contentious and so will need to be conveyed with empathy as well as clarity. Advancing Practice within DCHS involves professionals from a large range of professional backgrounds who undertake a diverse portfolio of roles. Therefore, engagement with them to understand their roles and the challenges experienced will be necessary on a regular basis to ensure that the post holder retains influence and is able to motivate and appropriately challenge as necessary.
About us
Leading the Multi-Professional Practice Development Team, the post-holder will facilitate standard setting across both Enhanced and Advanced level practice training, participate in internal Capability and Review of Progress panels, ensuring robust, equitable and reproducible standards are adhered to for organisational, practitioner and patient assurance.
DCHS is a Derbyshire-wide Community NHS Trust and the successful candidate will agree a base, but can be mostly remote working, with the ability to travel to DCHS sites across the County.
DCHS is an outstanding NHS Trust and evaluates highly in staff survey results.
Details
Date posted
02 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8c
Salary
£74,290 to £85,601 a year pa pro rata. Anticipated 8c (awaiting outcome of job evaluation)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
842-QUA-5715-25
Job locations
Derbyshire-wide (including remote working)
HQ: Ashgate Road
Chesterfield
S42 7JE
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Leadership -Responsibility for the clinical and professional performance of Advancing Practitioners will be held as part of the lead role and so the post holder will be responsible for assuring the Executive team within DCHS around governance and assurance processes in place to support and protect Advancing Practitioners and patients.
You will undertake leadership of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) within the Multi-Professional Practice Development Team (MPDT) which will include line management of the members of this team. Through this SLT, the post-holder will gain insight into the work of Advancing Practitioners across DCHS and primary care, understand their development needs and challenges and keep an overview of standards, roles and challenges across the organisation and wider system. This will enable support to clinical practitioners to be directed to where it is most needed, inter-professional learning opportunities maximised, and risks/difficulties escalated within and beyond the organisation.
Patient Care -Direct provision of care is not needed but clinical and therapeutic knowledge and experience is needed of autonomous advanced level clinical practice in a community or primary care setting. Additionally, underlying theory underpinning advanced level practice and working knowledge of healthcare legislation and codes of practice is essential to role.
Strategy - Developing and amending policy, identifying gaps and proposing changes and solutions will be a key element to the role. The post-holder will act as the owner of key clinical policy documents as directed by the needs of the organisation, ensuring that these are updated and reflect the needs of the patient and Advancing Practitioner populations.
See Job Description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Job responsibilities
Leadership -Responsibility for the clinical and professional performance of Advancing Practitioners will be held as part of the lead role and so the post holder will be responsible for assuring the Executive team within DCHS around governance and assurance processes in place to support and protect Advancing Practitioners and patients.
You will undertake leadership of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) within the Multi-Professional Practice Development Team (MPDT) which will include line management of the members of this team. Through this SLT, the post-holder will gain insight into the work of Advancing Practitioners across DCHS and primary care, understand their development needs and challenges and keep an overview of standards, roles and challenges across the organisation and wider system. This will enable support to clinical practitioners to be directed to where it is most needed, inter-professional learning opportunities maximised, and risks/difficulties escalated within and beyond the organisation.
Patient Care -Direct provision of care is not needed but clinical and therapeutic knowledge and experience is needed of autonomous advanced level clinical practice in a community or primary care setting. Additionally, underlying theory underpinning advanced level practice and working knowledge of healthcare legislation and codes of practice is essential to role.
Strategy - Developing and amending policy, identifying gaps and proposing changes and solutions will be a key element to the role. The post-holder will act as the owner of key clinical policy documents as directed by the needs of the organisation, ensuring that these are updated and reflect the needs of the patient and Advancing Practitioner populations.
See Job Description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential
Experience and Knowledge Required
Essential
Desirable
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential
Experience and Knowledge Required
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT
Address
Derbyshire-wide (including remote working)
HQ: Ashgate Road
Chesterfield
S42 7JE
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT
Address
Derbyshire-wide (including remote working)
HQ: Ashgate Road
Chesterfield
S42 7JE
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.