Advancing Practice Lead

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

My Reward Hub

Wages on demand

Wellbeing support

eLearning & CPD

Learning Enterprise development

On-call leadership

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking an innovative Advancing Practice Lead to drive the strategic development of Advanced Practice across Community Services in Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW).

This pivotal leadership role will shape the future of advanced and consultant practice, ensuring safe, evidence-based care while leading workforce transformation and service improvement across clinical pathways and partnerships.

Qualifications

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC.
• Masters degree in Advanced Practice, or Accredited ACP digital badge.
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification.
• Registered current Non Medical Prescriber qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic development, governance and implementation of Advanced Practice across BSW Community Services.
• Provide expert professional leadership and advice on advanced practice, workforce transformation and service redesign.
• Establish and oversee governance frameworks for safe, effective advanced practice across services.
• Lead workforce development pathways including education, supervision and credentialing.
• Drive quality improvement, audit and innovation to enhance patient outcomes.
• Develop partnerships with ICS partners, HEIs and external stakeholders.
• Lead and chair Advanced Practice forums and governance groups.
• Provide operational leadership and line management for Advanced Practice teams.
• Lead Non-Medical Prescribing governance and promote safe prescribing.
• Maintain clinical credibility through advanced clinical practice and decision‑making.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Education & mentoring

Analytical decision-making

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Masters in Advanced Practice

Accredited ACP digital badge

Teaching or mentorship qualification

Non Medical Prescriber qualification

Job description

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As anAdvancing Practice Lead, you’ll be part of our valued team working across BSW HCRG Care Group community services.

• Band 8c AfC (Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

We are seeking an innovative and inspirational Advancing Practice Lead to drive the strategic development of Advanced Practice across HCRG Care Group's Community Services in Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW).

This pivotal leadership role will shape the future of advanced and consultant practice, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based care across a range of community services. Leading workforce transformation, professional development and service improvement, you will champion excellence across the four pillars of Advanced Practice: Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education, and Research & Improvement.

Working in partnership with clinical and operational leaders, you will support the growth and governance of advanced practice roles across community nursing, therapies, urgent community response, frailty and virtual wards, rehabilitation, community hospitals and long-term condition services. This is an exciting opportunity to influence care at both strategic and operational levels, helping to develop a highly skilled workforce that delivers outstanding outcomes for patients and communities.

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic development, governance and implementation of Advanced Practice across BSW Community Services, ensuring alignment with national standards and organisational priorities.
• Provide expert professional leadership and advice on advanced practice, workforce transformation and service redesign.
• Establish and oversee robust governance frameworks, ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based advanced practice across all services.
• Lead workforce development pathways for Advanced Practitioners, including education, supervision, credentialing, appraisal and professional development.
• Drive quality improvement, audit and innovation programmes that enhance patient outcomes, improve service delivery and support community-based alternatives to hospital care.
• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with Integrated Care System (ICS) partners, Higher Education Institutions and external stakeholders to promote consistency and excellence in advanced practice.
• Lead and chair Advanced Practice forums and governance groups, providing assurance, reporting and oversight to senior leaders and clinical governance committees.
• Provide operational leadership, line management and professional support for Advanced Practice teams, Consultant Practitioners and designated clinical leaders.
• Lead Non-Medical Prescribing governance and promote high standards of safe, effective prescribing practice across community services.
• Maintain clinical credibility through advanced clinical practice, providing expert assessment, decision-making and support for complex cases where required.

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC
• Masters degree in Advanced Practice, or Accredited ACP digital badge.
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
• Registered current Non Medical Prescriber qualification
• Significant previous experience as an Advanced Practitoner in community, urgent care or acute settings
• Strong clinical credibility and advanced diagnostic decision‑making
• Proven significant experience in leading and managing a multidisciplinary team
• Experience in carrying out clincial audit and quality improvement projects
• Excellent written, verbal, negotiation and influencing skills
• Experience developing governance frameworks and supervision infrastructures
• Abilty to confidently work autonomously, as part of a wider multidisciplinary team and strategically
• Strong judgement and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations, make appropriate decisions, writing reports and developing business cases.
• Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
• Experience working across organisational boundaries.
• Strong track record of delivering service change or workforce transformation.

Other requirements

• Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle for work purposes.
• Willingness to work across different Trust areas as required.
• Flexible availability to meet service demands.
• The role includes participation in an on‑call rota to provide senior operational leadership and decision‑making support outside of normal working hours, as required’

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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