Job summary
The post holder will be expected to positively promote and develop educational standards within the Service, working to improve clinical practice with bands 2 - 6 including newly qualified staff going through Preceptorship and a number of skilled mentors and preceptors within our Mental Health Services. They will be expected to be involved in the delivery of clinical education and support assessment of learners in practice. They will also be expected to support the assessment of clinical competence of staff.

Main duties of the job

• To support the Heads of Nursing, Professions and Quality, to lead on the educational/learning requirements to support the delivery of the mental healthcare agenda within the division.
• To lead on the required Development programmes.
• Provide effective leadership to staff which promotes high performance standards both individually and as a team, in the achievement of the Trust's objectives and priorities. The Trust's success will be dependent on all staff playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation.
• To support the leadership development of teams and deputy team leaders aligned to the trust's leadership strategy.
• To work collaboratively with key stakeholders across the Trust.
• To establish and maintain productive working relationships and communications with key stakeholders.
• To contribute to relevant internal and external committees and forums and represent the services as required.
• To provide progress reports aligned to measurable project deliverables to the Senior Management team and other key stakeholders.
• To lead on Quality Improvement initiatives.
• To take forward identified learning from investigations to include Patient Safety Learning (PSIRF) actions.
• To support learners to include students, and preceptees, this will include the co-facilitation of the student forum.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker with Professional Registration
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification to include PETALS, PGCE etc.

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.