Job summary
- Main area
- Falls Improvement Lead Chief Nurse Team
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri with flexibility when required)
- Job ref
- 389-26-8080458
- Employer
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Town
- Bradford
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead for Falls Improvement
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Closing Date: 06.07.26
Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 07.07.26
Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 14.07.26 (May Change)
Job Overview – Falls Lead
The Falls Lead is a senior clinical role responsible for leading, developing, and coordinating falls prevention and management strategies across an NHS organisation. The post holder provides expert advice, ensures compliance with national guidelines, and works with multidisciplinary teams to reduce patient harm and improve safety.
They oversee the planning and delivery of training, audits, and service improvements, ensuring staff are equipped with the knowledge and tools to assess and manage falls risks effectively. The role also includes reviewing incidents, influencing policy, and driving continuous quality improvement using evidence-based practice.
In addition, the Falls Lead manages the falls service, supports staff development, contributes to strategic decision-making, and collaborates with internal and external partners to enhance patient outcomes and promote a culture of safety across all care settings.
Main duties of the job
Falls Lead
The Falls Lead provides strategic and clinical leadership to reduce falls and improve patient safety across the Trust. They lead training, policy development, audits, and service improvements while acting as the organisation’s expert in falls prevention.
The role involves working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, reviewing incidents, and driving continuous quality improvement to enhance patient outcomes and minimise harm.
Working for our organisation
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Falls Lead
The Falls Lead is responsible for providing strategic, clinical, and operational leadership for falls prevention and management across the Trust. This includes developing and implementing policies, leading audits and incident reviews, and ensuring compliance with national guidance to improve patient safety and reduce harm.
The role involves acting as the organisation’s expert in falls, delivering specialist advice, education, and training to staff across clinical and non-clinical areas. It requires working closely with multidisciplinary teams to support risk assessment, promote safe mobilisation, and embed evidence-based practice into everyday care.
In addition, the post holder leads service development and quality improvement initiatives, manages the falls service and related resources (including equipment and budgets), and contributes to organisational decision-making. They also review complex incidents, share learning, and collaborate with external partners to continuously improve outcomes for patients at risk of falling.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial management / leadership experience at senior nurse level in relevant clinical specialities
- Experience of working within Acute Hospital setting
- Experience of working within falls improvement
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of Health Policy and its impact on the Professional Nursing Agenda and BTHFT
- Experience of delivering service improvements with demonstrable positive impact on patient safety, patient experience and quality of care
- Evidence of a track record of developing nursing, or research experience and audit application
- Leading and developing a team
- Experience of: - budget management including human resource management - quality assurance - change management - policy implementation - participation in Trust-wide initiatives/ committee membership - Designed and delivered teaching or education packages to patients, carers and health care staff
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit.
- Ability to support a large workforce
- Provide expert professional advice to staff and patients
- Ensure patient s are involved in service improvement
- Provide specialist education and training
- Maintain compliance with, and develop falls guidance, policies, procedures and guidelines in legislations and National Guidance
- Responsibility for service improvement from incidents, regulation updates or policy change
- Responsible for practical implementation of policy change across the Trust
- Plan programmes for service improvement which impact across or within departments of services with flexibility to change and adapt, when required
- Identify and assess complicated scenarios where a range of implications or options need to be considered
- Organisation and management skills.
- Negotiating skills
- Present formal presentations
- Team building skills
- Ability to manage change
- Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- IT Skills (Including proficiency with Microsoft Office Packages and accurate, fast typing skills)
- Capable of working strategically (business planning, service improvements, strategies for infection control)
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Maintain accurate records
- Ability to undertake surveys or audits, as necessary e.g. audit of clinical incidents
- Attributes of patient centred approach Occasional exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions
- Well-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand and deliver the Trust’s expectations
- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills with good listening skills
- Requirement for concentration where work pattern is unpredictable and there is an occasional requirement for prolonged concentration
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
- Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role.
Desirable criteria
- Lead WYAAT Falls Improvement group
- Quality benchmarking
- Ability to undertake: • Patient Safety Incident Investigations • Thematic analysis • Service improvement experience • Audits and clinical trials • Review of equipment used within the Trust • Annual falls equipment audits
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit
- Budget and people management
- Current issues in healthcare/specialty
- Nursing Agenda
- Clinical Governance
- IP and C guidance relating to fall improvement
- Fundamentals of Care
- Patient Safety Issues
- Provides highly specialised advice for patient safety to the multi-disciplinary team
- Responsible for devising and teaching training and development programmes
- Be responsible as a line manager for the service and structural changes to build a team
- Responsible for data entry and storage of data compiled by others
- Interpret organisational and occupational policies that relate to falls improvement
- Show an understanding of Patient Safety Incident Reporting Framework (PSIRF)
- Engage with the National Audit for In Patient falls (NAIF)
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief “up the line”
- A commitment to improving research services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
Desirable criteria
- Best Practice in Speciality
- Health and Safety
- Knowledge of the key regulations, outcomes and assessment methods used by the Care Quality Commission in judgement of healthcare organisations
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level Registered Nurse
- First Degree or equivalent level of knowledge and experience gained in a relevant environment
- Post Registration qualification / or robust CPD in relevant speciality
- Recognised Leadership Qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of commitment to continuous learning and application in practice
- A Masters level qualification in relevant subject or evidence of equivalent knowledge and experience
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
- Jill Clayton
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01274 362693
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