Job summary
- Main area
- Practice Development
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7422943LH
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practice Development Nurse/ Allied Health Professional
Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for an exceptional Nurse to join the Practice Development Team, within the Education and Development Team.
The Practice Development Team facilitates continuous improvement in patient care and implementation of the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) Strategy through five dimensions.
Main duties of the job
Act as an expert clinical resource to colleagues by guiding practice developments, assessing competence and supporting implementation of policies.
Demonstrate a problem solving approach to all aspects of the role.
Lead on quality improvement projects aligned to patient safety and quality priorities or national drivers.
Deliver education and training where required.
Promote a lifelong learning culture providing high level professional leadership for the delivery of workforce development.
Support production of transparent data and reports.
Conducting assessments in specific wards or community teams to identify and inform the support required to achieve recovery / improvement.
Training and coaching to meet specific requirements or initiatives.
Work clinically in specific wards or community teams as required to support individual nurses, midwives, AHPs or teams in developing their practice.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.
We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Practice Development Team will facilitate continuous improvement in patient care and implementation of the NMAHP Strategy through five dimensions:
• Innovation – seek out, test and implement of new and innovative practice.
• Spread and adoption – between specialties and sites to reduce variation in practice.
• Rapid response – providing direct support to a ward or team identified as requiring improvement.
• Coaching for competence – providing one to one support to individuals identified with a practice development need.
• Enhancing knowledge and skill – development and implementation of learning pathways to achieve a skilled and professional workforce.
The post holder will be self-motivated and have the enthusiasm and commitment to develop and advance practice. They will be an inspirational role model, reflecting the Trust core values.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
The post holder will have a valid driving license for the UK. This is due to the need to commute between sites.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st Level Registered Nurse - with effective NMC registration/ Allied health professional – with effective HPCP registration
- Teaching and assessing in clinical practice qualification (i.e. mentorship)
- Educated to degree level in a health subject.
- Degree in relevant subject or equivalent qualification and / or experience
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Quality Improvement training
- Coaching qualification
- Human Factors training
- Leadership course
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience in a clinical setting
- Experience of undertaking practice developments in the clinical setting
- Clinical supervisor
- Experience of leading practice developments in own clinical area
Desirable criteria
- Clinical risk management and governance
- Change management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Nofra De-Lara
- Job title
- Practice Development Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07967816819
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