Head of Service Advanced Clinical Practice **subject to banding**

This exciting opportunity has arisen within Community Health Services (CHS). The Head of Service for Advanced Clinical Practice will work alongside the CHS Associate Medical Director, Executive Director and Head of Nursing, with the support of the Directorate Leadership Team. The post holder will be accountable for the strategic, operational and clinical leadership of the CHS Advanced Clinical Practitioners. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring effective governance of the diverse range of clinical services provided in CHS with particular focus on the Medical and ACP provision for the Directorate. The community hospitals are adult community bed-based services with 250 inpatient beds across 13 wards providing sub-acute step down and rehabilitation services across 9 wards, 2 stroke rehabilitation wards and 2 wards delivering discharge to assess pathway beds provided from seven community hospitals across LLR. The post holder will also provide clinical and professional leadership to the CHS Virtual Ward services working alongside the Operational Leads., Key areas of delivery include:

• To provide professional and clinical leadership and direction across the Directorate including the inpatient community wards and virtual Wards e.g. Frailty.
• To be responsible for developing, implementing, and reviewing the Advanced Clinical Practitioner / Medical service ensuring that the service is delivered equitably and to a consistently high standard across Community Health Services.
• Provide a leading role in appropriate aspects of the ACP service across the directorate working in partnership with the Consultant Geriatricians to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care in community hospital in-patient settings and the Frailty Virtual Ward.
• Line Management of the two Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioners for Community Hospitals Provide clinical leadership to the Advanced Clinical Practitioners for the Virtual Ward offer.
• Leadership, planning and delivery of staffing including recruitment, retention and deployment.
• Be highly motivated and responsible for ensuring robust local accountability for performance, quality, safety and finance across the team.
• Will have a clear workplan of 20% clinical and 80% leadership/education/audit and research to reflect the 4 pillars of advanced clinical practice.
• Participate in the directorate silver oncall rota., patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri
  
  We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working