Clinical Director for Advancing Practice

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust; Chesterfield; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a part-time Advanced Practice professional to lead and innovate in community healthcare. This role involves overseeing practice development, ensuring high standards of care, and fostering collaboration among diverse healthcare professionals. The successful candidate will drive change and enhance service delivery, making a significant impact on patient care. Join a supportive and inclusive team dedicated to improving community health outcomes while enjoying flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Free parking facilities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience as Advanced Clinical Practitioner.
• Specialist knowledge of education and development for Advancing Practice.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Multi-Professional Practice Development Team.
• Provide clinical leadership for Advancing Practitioners.

Skills

Leadership

Advanced Clinical Practice

Mentoring

Service Improvement

Education

Advanced Practice MSc or equivalent

Job description

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of individuals from BME backgrounds and welcomes applicants from these communities. DCHS is also an LGBT inclusive employer. Selection will be on a basis of merit. The Trust has achieved the status of a Disability Confident Leader and guarantees to invite to assessment applicants who meet the criteria for the job vacancy. To ensure the diversity of the workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Be outstanding - join an outstanding team!

Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main 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 specification

Education, Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• Organisation/system level Leadership experience
• Advanced Practice MSc or equivalent

Experience and Knowledge Required

Essential criteria

• Experience as Advanced Clinical Practitioner
• Specialist knowledge of the education and development requirements for Advancing Practice
• Evidence of mentoring, supervising and teaching

Desirable criteria

• Involvement in service improvement and implementation of best practice

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) is one of the largest providers of specialist community healthcare in England and we currently employ around 4,500 staff. We deliver a variety of services across Derbyshire, caring for nearly 1.8 million patients each year.

We deliver patient care through 11 community hospitals, 4 minor injury units, 29 health centres and a learning disability centre. Another key part of our service is out in the community where we care for people in their own homes via therapists, health visitors and district nurses, and promoting public health in the wider community. As a Trust we care for patients of all ages with a special focus on the needs of elderly people and the very young.

DCHS has been recognised as a top 10 NHS organisation to work for in the UK by the Health Service Journal and NHS Employers in their Best Places to Work 2015 campaign. The Trust is also the runner-up in the category for the best NHS community trust employer.
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Our vision "to be the best provider of local healthcare and to be a great place to work"

Our values:

1) To get the basics right
2) To act with compassion and respect
3) To make a difference
4) To value and develop teamwork
5) To value everyone's contribution because everyone matters
The majority of our locations offer free parking facilities for staff.

We will communicate with you regarding your application via email so please check your email account on a regular basis. If using hotmail, MSN or yahoo email accounts please check your 'junk/spam' mail regularly.

If you require any support in completing the application form please do not hesitate to contact the Recruitment Team, 01332 564856, option 1, option 1 or [e-mail] and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please note - if we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our service and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Clinical Director JD (DOCX, 235.7KB)
• Application Guidance (PDF, 315.5KB)
• Applicant Pack (PDF, 1.4MB)