Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (12 months fixed-term contract/secondment)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 083-8097770-HO
- Employer
- Sirona care & health CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sirona care & health HQ
- Town
- Yate
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Practitioner - Moving, Handling and Positioning
Band 8a
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Job overview
We are seeking an exceptional Advanced Practitioner in Moving, Handling and Positioning to play a pivotal, organisation-wide role in shaping safer, more effective care. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced clinician to operate at the highest level of advanced practice, combining expert clinical judgement with strategic leadership, education and quality improvement.
You’ll work across services to embed consistent, evidence-based approaches, influence practice at scale, and act as the go-to specialist for complex moving, handling and postural management challenges.
Through your subject matter expertise you will have a strong voice to shape training, policy development, and continuous improvement whilst helping to create a culture of learning and excellence in moving, handling and postural management. This is a role where your expertise will truly make a difference, supporting teams to improve care for individuals, families and communities every day.
Main duties of the job
- Work autonomously to assess and manage patients with complex moving, handling and positioning needs, including multi-pathology and high-risk cases.
- Hold a specialist caseload, providing expert assessment, intervention and equipment solutions to achieve optimal outcomes.
- Act as a point of escalation, offering expert clinical advice and decision-making, and ensure consistent, evidence-based, person-centred practice across all settings.
- Lead organisation-wide improvements in moving and handling, embedding high-quality and consistent practice.
- Drive quality improvement to reduce harm, enhance patient safety and support staff wellbeing.
- Advise senior leaders on service development, risk and compliance, and collaborate with partners to benchmark and share best practice.
- Lead training and workforce development to ensure staff competence and confidence.
- Act as an educator, coach and mentor, fostering continuous learning. Contribute to strategic learning priorities and develop competency frameworks to support practice development.
- Lead audit, evaluation and improvement activity to ensure evidence-based practice.
- Analyse data to identify risks and measure impact. Apply research to enhance care and identify opportunities for innovation and knowledge sharing.
Working for our organisation
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.
We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Please note, we cannot offer a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
If you currently require a visa to work in the UK, there must be a minimum of 14 months remaining until the expiry date. If you do not disclose your expiry date within your application, it may not be considered. Please only provide the expiry date and not your share code within your application.
If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.
Please use your 'Supporting Information' to demonstrate and provide evidence in how you meet the Person Specification below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Health Care professional NMC/HCPC
- Masters level 7 Advanced Practice or portfolio of experience equivalent across all 4 pillars of Advanced Practice
- specialist training in Moving, Handling and positioning (postural management)
Desirable criteria
- Recognised post graduate management / leadership qualification, working towards one or willingness to undertake.
- Experience of developing advance practice guidelines, governance and audit
- teaching or training qualification e.g. PGCert Education or equivalent
- post graduate or specialist qualification in Moving, Handling and positioning (postural management)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working at Advanced Practice level within your clinical area
- Significant experience and expertise in Moving & Handling and Positioning (postural management) practice, including complex case review and advisory capacity
- Experience of leading organisation-wide quality improvement programmes, including audit, surveillance and implementation of change.
- Demonstrable experience of developing, implementing and evaluating policies, protocols and clinical guidelines relating to patient safety and Moving & Handling.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data, producing reports and recommendations to inform strategic decision-making
Desirable criteria
- Operational management experience including experience of managing and developing multi-disciplinary or integrated pathway teams in a variety of locations.
- Experience of working at Advanced Practitioner level within a community health care setting
- Demonstrable ability to innovate, collaborate and implement new ideas into practice at scale
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
- John Robbins
- Job title
- Advanced Practice Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
please email me and we can arrange a call
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