Practice Development Practitioner

Tewv; Scarborough; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Practice Development Practitioner to lead and coordinate professional development across adult mental health inpatient services. The role emphasises clinical leadership, teaching, and quality improvement to enhance patient care.

The post requires registration with a relevant professional body, a recognised clinical teaching qualification, and substantial experience in clinical supervision and multidisciplinary education.

Qualifications

• Registration with relevant professional body and a recognised clinical teaching qualification are required.
• Evidence of clinical supervision training and CPD is expected.
• Leadership and mentoring skills with commitment to quality improvement are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership, mentoring and training across services.
• Drive practice developments and quality initiatives to achieve excellence in patient care.
• Support staff and students in professional development and in-house teaching.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical supervision

Mentoring

Education

Registration with professional body

Recognised clinical teaching qualification

Postgraduate qualification (PGDip/masters)

Job description

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Practice Development Practitioner

The closing date is 30 September 2026

Have you got an interest and a passion in Mental Health? We are looking to recruit highly motivated individuals to work across our Adult Mental Health inpatient services. You will be willing to provide an enthusiastic approach in supporting staff and students in their professional development through effective clinical leadership, sharing of knowledge and modelling the highest professional standards.

We are seeking an individual who shares and promotes our vision and values and who is interested in further development of self and others and in quality improvement. If you are an ambitious member of staff willing to provide energy and enthusiasm to drive Practice Development Nursing forward and are dynamic and interested in pro-actively supporting the facilitation of training and development for our clinical nursing teams, then you could be the person we are looking for.

Main duties of the job

Candidate's should hold a current professional registration with a professional body along with a recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience. With a commitment to continual quality and service improvement, you will be responsible for ensuring services provide a progressive learning and development environment for all grades of staff including temporary staff and will ensure a high standard of care delivery through specialist knowledge and skills in clinical practice, providing advice, mentoring, supervision and training across services. You will implement key practice developments and quality initiatives in order to achieve excellence in patient care in partnership with nursing and clinical multidisciplinary teams.

You will provide a Senior Practitioner perspective in discussions with senior medical and clinical colleagues, Heads of Nursing and operational managers in developing a co-ordinated approach to service delivery which is informed by good nursing practice. You will promote and contribute to inter-professional learning activities across services and implement in-house teaching.

The post holder will be responsible for their personal and professional development whilst undertaking this role.

The role requires successful candidates to work 5 days per week Mon-Fri.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with relevant professional body. (e.g. NMC, GMC, HCPC, Social Work-England)
• For nursing professions - Recognised Practice Supervisor and /or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent
• And - Trained in providing clinical supervision
• For other professions - evidence of training in clinical supervision of other staff and able to demonstrate competence in this area of practice in clinical supervision of other staff and/or students/ trainees.
• And have - Equivalent clinical experience to that of a Post Grad Diploma/master's level such as working as a band 6 (or above) in relevant clinical area with significant experience (see below under experience), together with evidence of relevant CPD
• Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.

Experience

• Substantial clinical experience of working in relevant specialist area in collaboration with service users, families and relevant others or transferable experience of similar settings and willing to gain knowledge within first 12 months.
• Experience of assessing and managing risk (harm to self, others and safeguarding)
• Substantial experience of working in a multi disciplinary team
• Involvement in quality improvement activities
• Quality Improvement experience
• Evidence of continuous personal development
• Service users and their families/carers
• Extensive experience in a clinical nurse leadership role
• Extensive experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
• Experience of been involved in the delivering of change and service improvement.
• Experience of resolving complex and challenging situations in collaboration with other disciplines and agencies.

Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice, regionally and nationally
• Experience of application of relevant legislation (i.e., Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act) in practice
• Sound knowledge of principles of nursing and how to apply these in a practice setting
• Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
• Good understanding of relevant legislation and guidance (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, CPA, Safe Staffing) and its application in practice.
• Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice.
• Good understanding of Recovery principles and application in practice
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
• Detailed understanding of Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
• Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management/Harm Minimisation and its application in practice.
• Research and development methodology.
• Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
• The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS) (or within agreed timescale).

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust