About this role
Job summary
Are you passionate about developing the Health Visiting workforce of the future?
We are seeking an experienced, innovative, and motivated Learning & Professional Development Lead for Health Visiting to partner our current postholder in a job share for 16 hours a week over two days. This exciting role will provide strategic leadership for workforce learning, education, professional development, and practice excellence across our Health Visiting Service.
As a key leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that health visitors, community staff nurses, nursery nurses, students, apprentices, and support staff are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care to children, young people, and families.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
The Learning & Professional Development Lead will:
Lead the development and implementation of learning and development strategies across the Health Visiting Service. Promote a culture of continuous professional development, reflective practice, and lifelong learning. Support workforce planning, succession planning, and talent development. Work collaboratively with universities, education providers, NHS England, public health teams, and professional bodies. Lead on student placements, preceptorship programmes, mentorship, and practice assessor/supervisor development. Ensure compliance with professional, regulatory, and safeguarding training requirements. Ensure National and local Public Health policy is included within practice documentation, policies and procedures. Support quality improvement initiatives, evidence-based practice, and service innovation. Provide professional leadership and expert advice on workforce development, professional and educational standards. Monitor and evaluate learning outcomes and workforce capability to improve service delivery and patient outcomes.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question. 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region. 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
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This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Has Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visiting qualification Active registration on NMC part 1 or 2 and Part 3 of register
Desirable
Practice Teacher or equivalent Level 3 NMC qualification
Length and Nature of Experience Essential
Post qualification experience within Health Visiting services Recent evidence of experience in teaching practice and assessment of competence at Level 3 or above
Desirable
Experience of project management Understanding and knowledge of quality improvement tools and methodologies
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge Essential
Understanding and critical analysis of the research process and evidence-based practice Evidence of maintaining and developing own specialist teaching practice in line with NMC Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice.
Desirable
Knowledge of Clinical Supervision theory and models of practice Knowledge of Clinical audit and risk management and the role of Clinical Governance. Evidence of application of leadership and development skills. Experience of developing and implementing polices / guidelines /SOPS
Personal skills abilities and attributes Essential
Ability to lead clinical development and innovation within the team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address Base to confirm following interview
Interview: Health Visiting Offices Barton Road
Tewkesbury
GL205GJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)