Band 7 Advanced Training Lead - Bristol

Job overview

Be part of changing the story for families across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

The BNSSG Integrated Care Board (ICB) is funding an ambitious programme to tackle deep‑rooted perinatal mental health inequalities across the region — and we’re looking for someone passionate, creative and community‑focused to help lead this work.

As a Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Training Practitioner, you will design and deliver perinatal‑informed, culturally competent and community‑led training for VCSE organisations supporting communities who too often face barriers to care. These include Black and Brown women and birthing people, Asian communities, refugees and migrants, Gypsy Roma Traveller communities, and people with care experience.

You will work autonomously to build trusted relationships, co‑produce training alongside under‑represented groups, and ensure lived experience is at the heart of everything you create. Your work will support earlier recognition of perinatal mental health needs, more sensitive and effective signposting, and clearer pathways into support.

Hosted within AWP’s Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service, this role offers a rare opportunity to create meaningful, lasting change — shaping practice, strengthening communities, and improving outcomes for parents and babies across BNSSG.

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

Lead the design and development of bespoke perinatal mental health training for VCSE organisations funded through the ICB inequalities programme. Ensure training is culturally competent, trauma‑informed, accessible, and co‑produced with under‑represented communities and people with lived experience, embedding principles of parity of access and culturally responsive practice.

Deliver high‑quality specialist training to VCSE partners across BNSSG, supporting recognition of perinatal mental health needs, help‑seeking, and accurate signposting to local pathways. Provide ongoing consultation and follow‑up learning to support embedding knowledge into community practice.

Engage meaningfully with priority communities to shape training content and delivery, building trusted relationships and integrating lived‑experience voices. Maintain active partnerships with VCSE and BNSSG system partners, representing AWP Specialist Perinatal Mental Health in cross‑system training.

Work within AWP governance structures, participate in Black Maternity Matters training, and ensure content reflects current evidence and best practice. Evaluate impact, report progress, and adapt training in response to feedback and emerging community needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Creating a learning environment

Oversee the development and delivery of effective and high quality learning opportunities for VCSE organisations delivering care under the Reducing Perinatal Mental Health Inequalities Programme withing BNSSG.

Co-deliver training to a wide range of professionals and system partners on:-

Integrated team working

Linking with appropriate multi-professional groups and being a visible presence in the clinical area(s) attending trust /divisional / locality / team meetings as appropriate

Regularly analyse the training/educational tools to ensure that the needs of patients can be met

Contribute to the content and design of guidance materials and teaching aids development.

Participate in any relevant audits of the learning environment, developing, monitoring and reporting on any resultant action plans

Utilise judgement and professional skills to manage complex situations, providing a constructive and cohesive learning environment for staff/stakeholders

Demonstrate clinical expertise and maintain competence in clinical skills in their designated clinical area in order to teach and assess others.

Education delivery

Develop additional ways of delivering education and development (for example e-learning, written training packages, simulation, workbooks, visits, clinical rotations and self-directed study)

Encourage best practice sharing by supporting clinicians to present at conferences, clinical network meetings and other events.

Keep and maintain accurate records of interventions delivered, providing regular updates to senior colleagues as required.

Maintain a clinically credible and visual profile with Stakeholders across the Trust and the wider system.

Ensure consistently high standards of care are being met by providing a practical, flexible & immediate response to unforeseen educational issues in clinical areas to minimise clinical risks

Ensure attendance lists to all programmes are maintained and documented as required

Be responsible for training equipment and for booking of venues

Be responsible for managing the training budget and approval of expenses for lived experience representation

Manage and engage with external and internal facilitators who may provide specific training expertise into the programme

Quality Assurance

Work with colleagues to ensure the Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan training team are providing effective learning environments for both internal staff and wider system partners.

Complete evaluations of the training package and delivery and produce evaluation materials to perform complex analysis on improvements produce options within the governance structures

Utilise and analyse feedback received on constructive feedback to provide options to the governance structure in order to make ongoing improvements to developmental interventions, sessions / modules. Maintain close links, collaborate and share best practice with other individuals who have education as a principle component of their role.

Challenge clinical and professional practice to ensure consistently high standards of service delivery in line with AWP policies and procedures.

Provide reports and verbal updates regarding education delivery and feedback as requested and present in forums as required.

Work within agreed processes to maintain high standards of delivery & commitment from delegates.

Stakeholders

Enhance and maintain working relationships Stakeholders across the Trust and the wider system.

Work with training colleagues to support effective learning in practice

Leadership and Service Development

Promote up-to-date evidence and research-based practice and demonstrate this in own practice

Act as a change agent and support other staff in the Reducing Perinatal Mental Health Inequalities Programme

Keep up-to-date locally & nationally with developments in healthcare education curricula.

Ensure that education is responsive to service developments.

Utilise experience and knowledge of clinical and operational activities to identify appropriate ways to tailor the training package to staff depending on the cohort

Provide best practice implementation of the training programme which will support patients and ensure the best care can be delivered by staff receiving the training

Help create, sustain and support an environment where practice development and change can flourish.

Promote research awareness by, disseminating appropriate evidence-based and research findings relevant to the clinical practice area.

Supervise members of training team if relevant

To ensure that the activities of supervisees are conducted within a framework of accountability, ensuring that supervision is regular and recorded and to ensure annual appraisals are undertaken

To be responsible for identifying the training and development needs of all supervisees to ensure high quality service provision

Research

Lead opportunities for audit evaluation and research as appropriate

Undertake research in topic areas relevant to the work of the service.

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