Deputy Clinical Director - Nursing and AHP

Job summary

Grade: 8B

Reports to: Clinical Director Primary Care Nursing and Allied Health Professions

Accountable to: Clinical Director Primary Care Nursing and Allied Health Professions

Professionally Accountable to: Clinical Director Primary Care Nursing and Allied Health Professions

Terms of engagement Can be undertaken as secondment.

Can be hosted by a borough training hub.

Hours of work - 0.4 WTE (15 hours per week)

Base - 48 Station Road, London, N22 7TY/borough training hub office with a requirement of minimum 1 day/week of NCL Training Hub office presence.

Contract length: One-year fixed term (can be undertaken as secondment)

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Clinical Director Primary Care Nursing and Allied Health Professions (CDN&AHP), the Deputy Clinical Director Primary Care Nursing and Allied Health Professions (DCDN&AHP) will be a strategic role, combining leadership, planning and delivery skills to second and support the CDN&AHP in championing and developing General Practice nursing and Allied Health Professions across North Central London (NCL).

This role will provide the job holder with opportunities to grow and develop at system level, giving them exposure to senior stakeholders and enable leadership skill development whilst being supported and mentored by the CDN&AHP.

The post holder will work closely with the CDN&AHP to advocate for General Practice Nursing and Allied Health professions with system leaders, to support the development of career pathways for nurses and AHPs in NCL, to provide strategic clinical input to the Nursing Programme, hosted by the NCL Training Hub, to ensure the nursing strategy is aligned with the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and addresses key ICS priorities, and to provide strategic clinical oversight for several flagship nursing and AHP workstreams.

About us

The NCL Training Hub is a growing and innovative team responsible for developing our health and social care workforce in North Central London (NCL). We manage a budget of over £8.2m pa and over 2022-23 were shortlisted for several national awards including in the HSJ and Nursing Times.

We work according to a distributed leadership model across the five borough Training Hubs hosted in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey & Islington. The Training Hub delivers around 70 workforce development initiatives for clinical & non-clinical staff working across Primary & Social Care. Each workstream is housed in one of the five Borough Training Hubs with direct accountability to the Joint Operational Group (JOG).

The Training Hub works to embed a culture of education, partnership and collaboration. Our work programmes reflect the learning and development needs of primary and neighbourhood workforce teams and aligns to system priorities. We enable the placed based delivery of high-quality health and social care to our community across North Central London. We build, support and develop a skilled, diverse and inclusive workforce who are empowered to reach their full potential.