Job summary
- Main area
- Practice Development
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-NQD028-0925
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bath NHS House
- Town
- Bath
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per year
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/09/2025
Employer heading
Band 8a Practice Development Lead - Bath
Band 8a
Job overview
The Practice Development Lead will be influential and dynamic in working on local and national agendas as part of the Nursing Careers and Professional Standards (NCPS) team within Nursing and Quality Directorate (NQD). They will actively lead, co-ordinate and facilitate Clinical Careers and Practice Development processes for the Trust
Main duties of the job
In this Trust Wide role, the postholder will work collaboratively with teams across the organisation to design, deliver, facilitate, and evaluate effective processes that support practice development for both unregistered and registered staff. They will be responsible for reporting on progress of career development activities across the Trust and will actively contribute to workforce development and growth. In addition, they will support initiatives that enhance and embed new roles within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key results areas:
1. Organising, coordinating and reporting
To work autonomously, proactively and collaboratively across the range of clinical and non-clinical settings, ensuring that the Trust’s clinical career and practice development strategies are implemented.
Manage your personal workload and determine priorities in the context of Trust, N&QD and NCPS strategies/ work-plans. Determine your working priorities, organise your time, and plan your weekly schedule without direct supervision.
Attend and participate in regular meetings, preparing reports and papers as required to support the growth and change in career development and support new roles and actively contributing to agenda discussions.
Be individually responsible tor organising, facilitating and leading trust-wide clinical career, practice development and service improvement processes.
Be individually responsible for organising, planning and facilitating regular meetings with relevant organisational leads both inside and external to AWP, and take responsibility for ensuring key tasks and actions from this are undertaken.
Be individually responsible for maintaining the clinical career and unregistered practice development pages on Our Space (Trust intranet); includes proactive liaison and collaboration with the Trust’s Webmaster / communications team.
2. Project design and methodology
Provide appropriate leadership, support, guidance, supervision and advice regarding the design of team-based, divisional and Trust-wide projects and activities.
Lead, manage and analyse quantitative and qualitative data generated from these processes, and be responsible for data management and analysis.
Lead and proactively manage the processes associated with practitioner, service user and carer participation in the establishment and facilitation of practice development processes, in particular the identification of best practice, areas for improvement and action planning cycles.
Contribute to the evaluation and development of core aspects of the Trust’s clinical nursing strategy.
3. Training and professional development
Lead, plan, organise, coordinate and deliver bespoke professional development interventions for practitioners, service users and carers regarding clinical career and practice development activity.
Lead and facilitate learning and supervision regarding a wide range of development processes, with particular attention to drawing conclusions, recommendations and objective-setting as part of the report-writing process.
Undertake your own professional development and learning, as identified though the Trust’s appraisal process. Maintain a personal portfolio of your own learning, and with the Head of NCPS, identify your personal developmental needs. Participate in regular management supervision and appraisal.
Please see the job description for more details.
Person specification
Qualficiation/Experience/Skills
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level
- Experience of working clinically in an NHS Mental Health care and treatment team
- Ability to design, formulate, implement and evaluate change processes at a team, directorate or organisational level.
- Experience of presenting project work in formal and informal situations and settings
- Ability to demonstrate the understanding and synthesis of complex information from a variety of sources.
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Masters level
- Experience of designing and participating in research / practice based presentations
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathy Bond
- Job title
- Practice Development & PNA Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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