Practice Development Practitioner
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Darlington, DL2 2TSView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
21 October 2026
2 days leftJob description
Have you got an interest and a passion in Mental Health? We are looking to recruit a highly motivated nurse to work across our Adult Mental Health Pla...
Candidates should hold a current professional registration with a professional body along with a recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience. With a commitment to continual quality and service improvement, you will be responsible for ensuring services provide a progressive learning and development environment for all grades of staff including temporary staff and will ensure a high standard of care delivery through specialist knowledge and skills in clinical practice, providing advice, mentoring, supervision and training across services. You will implement key practice developments and quality initiatives in order to achieve excellence in patient care in partnership with nursing and clinical multidisciplinary teams.
You will provide a Senior Nursing perspective in discussions with senior medical and clinical colleagues, Heads of Nursing and operational managers in developing a co-ordinated approach to service delivery which is informed by good nursing practice. You will promote and contribute to inter-professional learning activities across services and implement in-house teaching.
The post holder will be responsible for their personal and professional development whilst undertaking this role.
The role requires successful candidates to work across 7 days on a roster with an expectation to be able to work outside of 9-5 most days.
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Qualifications
Essential
- Current professional registration with professional body
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to master's level equivalent
- Recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience
- Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale
- Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale
- Evidence of continuous personal development
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in an inpatient or community environment.
- Extensive experience working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Extensive experience in a clinical nurse leadership role
- Extensive experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
- Experience of been involved in the delivering of change and service improvement
- Experience of resolving complex and challenging situations in collaboration with other disciplines and agencies
Desirable: - Use of the Trust's quality Improvement System to implement change; - Experience of working alongside higher education providers
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge of principles of nursing and how to apply these in a practice setting
- Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Good understanding of relevant legislation and guidance (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, CPA, Safe Staffing) and its application in practice.
- Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice
- Good understanding of Recovery principles and application in practice
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Detailed understanding of Care Programme Approach and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management/Harm Minimisation and its application in practice
- Research and development methodology
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
- The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS) (or within agreed timescale)
- Working knowledge of HR policies and procedures and when to escalate to the HR Department
- Provide effective leadership
- Influence, initiate and manage change effectively
- Use initiative to make critical judgements and decisions independently under pressure
- Offer support to staff whilst maintaining boundaries, which enable difficult decisions to be made in an impartial and fair manner in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
- Engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
- Work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
- Use a range of IT skills to analyse complex data and produce statistical reports
- Influence and work collaboratively with senior managers and external partners
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
14 October 2026
Last checked
16 October 2026
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