Practice Development Practitioner

Tewv; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Practice Development Practitioner to drive clinical leadership, support staff and student development, and lead quality improvement across Adult Mental Health Planned Care services in Durham Tees Valley. The post emphasizes advancing nursing practice, mentoring and training, and fostering inter-professional learning within a 7-day roster.

The role requires ongoing professional development, current nursing registration, a recognised

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with a professional body
• Professional teaching qualification or equivalent mentoring/teaching experience
• Commitment to continual quality and service improvement
• Willingness to lead and support development across services
• Leadership qualification within agreed timescale
• Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of continuous personal development
• Awareness of HR policies and procedures as applicable to nursing leadership

Skills

Professional registration

Teaching qualification

Leadership development

Quality Improvement

Continual professional development

Literacy/Numeracy/ITQ2

Education

Nursing degree/diploma

Master-level qualification (or equivalent)

Job description

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Practice Development Practitioner

The closing date is 21 October 2026

Have you got an interest and a passion in Mental Health? We are looking to recruit a highly motivated nurse to work across our Adult Mental Health Planned Care services within Durham Tees Valley Urgent Care. 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.

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

Main duties of the job

Candidates 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 Nursing 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 across 7 days on a roster with an expectation to be able to work outside of 9-5 most days.

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 for further detailed information regarding the role and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with professional body
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to master's level equivalent
• Recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience
• Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale
• Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale
• Evidence of continuous personal development
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Experience

• Extensive experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in an inpatient or community environment.
• Extensive experience working collaboratively with 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
• Use of the Trust's quality Improvement System to implement change
• Experience of working alongside higher education providers

Skills and Knowledge

• 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)
• Working knowledge of HR policies and procedures and when to escape to the HR Department
• Provide effective leadership
• Influence, initiate and manage change effectively
• Use initiative to make critical judgements and decisions independently under pressure
• Offer support to staff whilst maintaining boundaries, which enable difficult decisions to be made in an impartial and fair manner in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
• Engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
• Work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
• Use a range of IT skills to analyse complex data and produce statistical reports
• Influence and work collaboratively with senior managers and external partners
• Communicate effectively with a wide range of people including the use of multimedia materials for presentations in formal settings
• Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
• Use approved techniques in physical intervention
• Use clinical skills appropriate to the area of work e.g. intramuscular injections

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