Job summary
- Main area
- Rehabilitation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Locally agreed rota)
- Job ref
- 164-7210316
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NRC/ QMC/ City
- Town
- Loughborough
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

NRC Clinical Academic (Band 8a)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Are you ready to join a team of pioneers ready to revolutionise the future of rehabilitation? Do you have a passion for transforming the lives of people who have experienced severe injury or illness? Here at the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) you will join an innovative, forward thinking team with the collective objective of providing first class rehabilitation to our patients.
This is a key leadership role within the NRC, supporting and enabling the AHP Consultant and NRC Director in delivering the NRC Academy and being its academic lead. We are looking for an ambitious and dedicated nurse or AHP to be responsible for the development of systems and policies supporting education and training within the NRC Academy implementing an NRC Academy plan to support the academic strategy already developed. You will promote sharing of best practice and demonstrate a high degree of clinical skills as a senior leader in the clinical team. Guiding the team on Evidence Based Practice and ensuring the delivery model is up to date with the latest research will be a pivotal part of this important role.
Why choose the NRC? You will be at the forefront of big change over the next few years and supported to grow and learn through our many developmental programmes.
Planning for the NRC is in its advanced stages, and the building will be ready in the Autumn of 2025.
Visit the NRC website at www.nationalrehabilitationcentre.nhs.uk.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional registration
- Masters’s degree relevant clinical profession
- Experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice
- Additional related clinical specialist qualification
Desirable criteria
- Experience of course development Ideally with HEI Post graduate teaching and assessing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience at a senior clinical and or academic level including multidisciplinary working
- Experience of leading and managing complex educational programmes responding to changing needs and current challenges
- Evidence of having achieved challenging organisational targets
- Experience of leading projects in a complex organisation
- Understanding rehabilitation objectives for the NRC and how education links to the NRC Academic strategy
- Extensive experience of teaching, developing and facilitating research and innovation programmes to the inter-professional team across health and social care settings
- Evidence of current clinical practice in a range of acute care settings
- Evidence of presenting to national/international audiences.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leading projects across health and social care settings /clinical practice, teaching and research
- Evidence of competitive grant capture/income generation.
Communication and Relationship Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communications skills (written and oral) to the multi-professional team at a variety of levels
- Ability to lead and build successful teams
- Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
- Ability to lead programmes of work across organisations
- Able to influence the direction and decisions for NRC, Trust and external audiences as required including Higher Education Institutions and commissioning organisations.
- Ability to present highly complex data to a variety of audiences
- Good negotiating skills
- Ability to manage conflict
Desirable criteria
- Peer reviewed publications
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information systems
- Able to move and handle teaching and training equipment
- Able to undertake clinical duties as required by a registered professional within NUH
Desirable criteria
- IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent problem solving skills using internal and external sources of expertise when appropriate
- Business focused ensuring commercial value is realised at every opportunity
- Sensitive to clinical and political demands
- Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change
- Evidence of an ability to analyse, interpret and present complex, multi-stranded data in appropriate forms
- Ability to think laterally, identify and evaluate options for education, training and research programmes in delivering the aims of the NRC, Trust and the wider health and social care community.
- Presents plans supported by reasoned argument and evidence.
Desirable criteria
- Commercial experience of delivering academic programmes to profit
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisation skills
- Ability to sustain high workload through times of service and organisational pressure
- Ability to chair and/or participate actively in meetings, seminars and conferences
- Performance management skills and techniques to enable accurate real-time progress
- Ability to diagnose and take remedial action where education or innovation programmes are slipping from their targets
Other requirements specific to the role (e.g. be able to drive or work shifts)
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly across campuses and different locations as required
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Miriam Duffy
- Job title
- Director National Rehabilitation Centre
- Email address
- [email protected]
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