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Main Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic development, governance and implementation of Advanced Practice across BSW Community Services, ensuring alignment with national standards and organisational priorities.
• Provide expert professional leadership and advice on advanced practice, workforce transformation and service redesign.
• Establish and oversee robust governance frameworks, ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based advanced practice across all services.
• Lead workforce development pathways for Advanced Practitioners, including education, supervision, credentialing, appraisal and professional development.
• Drive quality improvement, audit and innovation programmes that enhance patient outcomes, improve service delivery and support community-based alternatives to hospital care.
• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with Integrated Care System (ICS) partners, Higher Education Institutions and external stakeholders to promote consistency and excellence in advanced practice.
• Lead and chair Advanced Practice forums and governance groups, providing assurance, reporting and oversight to senior leaders and clinical governance committees.
• Provide operational leadership, line management and professional support for Advanced Practice teams, Consultant Practitioners and designated clinical leaders.
• Lead Non-Medical Prescribing governance and promote high standards of safe, effective prescribing practice across community services.
• Maintain clinical credibility through advanced clinical practice, providing expert assessment, decision-making and support for complex cases where required.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC
• Masters degree in Advanced Practice, or Accredited ACP digital badge.
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
• Strong IT skills
• Registered current Non Medical Prescriber qualification
• Significant previous experience as an Advanced Practitioner in community, urgent care or acute settings
• Strong clinical credibility and advanced diagnostic decision-making
• Proven significant experience in leading and managing a multidisciplinary team
• Experience in carrying out clinical audit and quality improvement projects
• Excellent written, verbal, negotiation and influencing skills
• Experience developing governance frameworks and supervision infrastructures
• Ability to confidently work autonomously, as part of a wider multidisciplinary team and strategically
• Strong judgement and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations, make appropriate decisions, writing reports and developing business cases.
• Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment

Desirable

• Leadership or management qualification
• Experience working across organisational boundaries.
• Strong track record of delivering service change or workforce transformation.

Other requirements:

• Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle for work purposes.
• Willingness to work across different Trust areas as required.
• Flexible availability to meet service demands.
• The role includes participation in an on-call rota to provide senior operational leadership and decision-making support outside of normal working hours, as required’

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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