Job Overview You will facilitate clinical staff in the ward/department/specialty in identifying opportunities for maintaining and improving standards of patient care. You will support and facilitate innovation in care provision in a structured and systematic way. You will offer professional guidance and support to all staff and students You will develop guidelines and implement developments in practice, and ensure these are audited. You will collate all resources related to professional training and development, within the Dietetics/SLT/Podiatry service in collaboration with all staff cross site You will collate and develop clear competency programmes for all bandings within the Dietetics/SLT/Podiatry service as a whole/cross site You will develop training programmes per banding groups to assist all involved with providing training within the department cross site You will collate and develop training programmes per speciality and assist the cross site clinical specialists/leads in developing & providing these You will ensure staff all complete required competencies and training related to their job banding Main duties of the job Examples Of Key Tasks Associated With These Aspects Include Develop, maintain and implement a competency framework for all areas of clinical practice. To initiate the development of protocols and guidelines for practice. To assess clinical education and practice development needs and create a culture of reflective practice. By working with individuals within the clinical setting, facilitate practice by enabling and motivating staff to realise their potential within existing and available resources. Exercise leadership skills to act as a catalyst for change. Foster a learning environment within the departmental areas, ensuring staff are provided with opportunities to develop and update their clinical expertise in the care of patients To initate training and development of health care professionals by identifying, establishing and promoting teaching programmes To lead in the delivery of educational programmes to meet specific training needs With the senior managers, develop training packages to meet teams needs. To assist in the induction for new staff and students To discuss expected outcomes of training and development activity with staff prior to attending training events. Effective working relationship with the head of service and PD for AHPs regarding core service and department issues. To manage the department CPD bids on an annual basis, working closely with Principal Dietitians/SLTs/Podiatrists and HOS. Further Details Can Be Found In The Job Description. Working for our organisation Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. At Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important healthy work life balance is; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties. Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities Please see the attached job description and person specification for the practice development lead role for full details of the position. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria HCPC registration and recognised degree in dietetics/SLT/Podiatry Desirable criteria Learning/education qualification or CPD Experience Essential criteria Experience with students and developing staff within their area of work Evidence of audit/research/quality improvement projects Desirable criteria Experience in writing competencies/training programmes for NHS staff Previous band 7 experience Evidence of leading change/improvement projects SKills Essential criteria Forward and innovative thinking Excellent interpersonal skills Desirable criteria Presentation skills Special skills Essential criteria Demonstrates an aptitude for learning and proactive in seeking opportunities to do this Demonstrates a passion for developing staff and supporting them to progress Flexibility to meet requests from teams/managers to support staff either remotely or in person Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. Apply online now