Clinical Practice Lead Nurse (Operations)

Job summary

Are you passionate about ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based community nursing care is provided to the residents of Derbyshire?

If so this exciting opportunity to have a positive influence on the future development of community nursing services could be for you!

As Clinical Practice Lead Nurse (Operations) you will be responsible for promoting excellence in the operational clinical practice of the community nursing teams across Derbyshire, cultivating matrix working within DCHS and with system partners, and planning initiatives to support the development of services to align with strategic direction.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Practice Lead Nurse job involves representing the community nursing teams in transformation initiatives, both at local and system level so you will need to have a robust understanding of working within Community Nursing teams and the challenges and rewards this brings.

You will oversee processes for ensuring standards of care, productivity and efficiency are sustained, identifying concerns and making improvements as required, including sharing lessons learned, workforce planning and service development. This involves working closely with colleagues across DCHS e.g. Quality and Professional Standards division, Operations Hub, and so networking and communication skills will be essential.

This role also includes leadership and management of the Clinical Lead Nurses and Clinical Practice Facilitators who work with frontline clinicians to support competencies and implement service improvements so you will need to have line management experience.

The job involves hybrid working with a significant proportion of your time working from home, whilst you will also need to travel to all sites across the trust to meet face to face with your team and frontline services as necessary. You will need to be comfortable working in a self directed way, with the ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines.

About us

This is a new post developed alongside a Clinical Practice Lead AHP with a clear clinical leadership structure for the Community Care Division, demonstrating the resolve of the Trust to support excellence in clinical practice. You will be an integral part of the divisions dynamic senior management team where you will find plenty of support, stimulating (appropriate) challenge and personal development opportunities.

At DCHS we put the quality of our patient care at the heart of everything we do.

We believe that our staff are central to this, ensuring that we provide care to patients with dignity and respect, where we cause no intentional harm and where we ensure a good patient experience.

At DCHS we have a simple philosophy when it comes to your health and wellbeing, we believe that work should benefit your health, not challenge it. This is why we consider staff health and wellbeing throughout every aspect of our organisation and the work we do. This focus has resulted in us consistently scoring top in the staff survey for employee engagement and organisational focus on staff wellbeing across all community NHS trusts