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Band 8b- Clinical Programme Lead, Care Home Dementia Support Service
Band 8b
Main area Medicine Grade Band 8b Contract 2 years (fixed term/secondment duration, two years from start date) Hours
- Full time
- Job share
37.5 hours per week Job ref 360-A-11920
Department name West Herts – General Staffing Site Cross Site Town watford Salary £68,852 – £79,638 pa inc HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 03/11/2026 23:59
Job overview
Are you passionate about improving the lives of people living with dementia and transforming the care they receive? This is an exciting opportunity to lead the development of an innovative Care Home Dementia Support Service across South and West Hertfordshire, delivered in partnership by West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and the Alzheimer’s Society.
Initially supporting a small group of care homes, the service will expand across the wider area, bringing together health, social care and voluntary sector partners to deliver more proactive, personalised and joined-up care for residents living with severe dementia.
Combining specialist clinical leadership with programme management, you will lead the mobilisation and ongoing development of the service, empowering care home teams through education, coaching and clinical support. You will drive early recognition of deterioration, timely intervention and personalised care planning, helping residents remain well, maintain their dignity and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions wherever possible.
Reporting to the Associate Director of Nursing for Medicine, you will work closely with the Alzheimer’s Society, care home teams and partners across the health and care system to shape a service that makes a genuine difference to residents, their families and those who care for them.
Main duties of the job
You will lead the mobilisation, implementation and ongoing development of the Care Home Dementia Support Service across South and West Hertfordshire, working in partnership with West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, the Alzheimer’s Society and wider health and care partners.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the delivery and development of the service, ensuring objectives, resources and budgets are effectively managed.
- Building strong partnerships across care homes, primary care, community, mental health, social care and voluntary sector organisations.
- Providing clinical leadership, education and support to care home teams, promoting best practice and personalised dementia care.
- Managing and developing staff, including the Band 7 Clinical Practitioner, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Driving quality, governance and service evaluation, using data and feedback to demonstrate impact and improve outcomes.
- Representing the service at Trust and system-level meetings, influencing decision-making and managing key stakeholder relationships.
- Supporting innovative, sustainable approaches that enhance resident experience and reduce avoidable hospital admissions.
Above all, you will be committed to improving outcomes for people living with dementia, championing dignity, independence and person-centred care for residents and their families.
Working for our organisation
With a new hospital planned for Watford, work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital and plans for a neighbourhood healthcare centre in Hemel Hempstead, this is an exciting time to join us.
We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imagining models of care, working closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.
Staff wellbeing and development are a priority, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience.
Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are passionate about dementia care, thrive on collaboration and want to help shape a developing service with the potential to transform experiences and outcomes across our communities, we would love you to join us.
The post holder will work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with working arrangements agreed in line with service requirements.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
- Degree level qualification in a relevant healthcare profession or equivalent recognised professional qualification
- Current registration with the relevant statutory regulatory body.
- Relevant Master’s – level qualification or demonstratable equivalent specialist knowledge and experience in clinical leadership, service development and programme delivery
- specialist study in dementia, older people’s care or related field.
- Teaching or quality improvement qualification
Knowledge
- Knowledge and experience of neighbourhood working in the delivery of care.
- Specialist Knowledge of dementia, delirium, frailty, personalised care and recognition of deterioration.
- Understanding of care home practice, neighbourhood working- acute, primary care mental health, community, social care and voluntary sector interfaces
- Knowledge of relevant dementia priorities, clinical governance, safeguarding, consent, mental capacity and information governance requirements.
- Understanding of programme management, workforce planning, financial control, performance measurement and service evaluation
- Knowledge of NHS 10year plan
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical audit/effective research methods.
- Knowledge/experience of quality improvement methodologies
- Experience of working with care homes
- Detailed knowledge of local HCP and ICB priorities, care home provision
Experience
- Substantial relevant clinical experience and senior leadership experience in services supporting people with dementia or complex older people’s needs
- Delivery of complex programmes or service change across organisational boundaries, with evidence of implementation and measurable improvement.
- Experience managing staff, resource, risk and competing priorities, developing pathways and governance arrangements
- Partnership working with social care, community services, acute services and VCFSE and care homes, engaging residents, families and carers.
- Experience translating safety incidents, safeguarding concerns, audit or feedback into improvements
- Demonstration of ability to manage complex situations.
- Experience of working in different care settings
- Experience of safeguarding adults
- Experience of developing and providing training/education to staff.
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people living in west Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. The Trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and East Hertfordshire.
As an employer of nearly 6,000 people the Trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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