Home First Learning & Development Practitioner

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust at a pivotal time as we launch our new countywide Home First service on 1 September 2026.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated registered practitioner to support the learning, development and clinical growth of our workforce, helping to ensure staff have the knowledge, skills and confidence to deliver outstanding care to people in their own homes. Working closely with the Practice and Learning Facilitator and Home First leadership team, you will play a key role in developing staff, supporting competency assessment, facilitating clinical learning and contributing to the delivery of a high-quality, person-centred service.

This role offers the opportunity to influence and shape a brand-new service, working alongside a diverse multidisciplinary team while promoting continuous improvement, professional development and excellence in patient care.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of an innovative new Home First service from its first day of operation.
• Help shape the development and future success of a growing workforce.
• Work within a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to delivering outstanding care closer to home.
• Play a key role in improving patient outcomes and supporting people to remain independent within their communities.
• Access opportunities for professional development, leadership experience and service improvement work.

Main duties of the job

• Support the delivery of clinical education, induction and competency-based learning programmes for staff across the Home First workforce
• Contribute to the development of a skilled, competent and confident workforce through training, coaching and workplace-based assessment
• Assess, monitor and support staff undertaking work-based competencies within your professional scope of practice.
• Undertake observational visits to support competency sign-off, development and quality assurance.
• Work collaboratively with the Band 6 Practice and Learning Facilitator, Home First Leads and multidisciplinary colleagues to identify learning needs and develop staff capability.
• Support the induction, onboarding and ongoing development of new members of staff throughout their probationary period.
• Promote evidence-based practice and maintain awareness of current NHS priorities, research and best practice relevant to Home First and community care.
• Build effective relationships with colleagues, education providers and partner organisations to maximise learning opportunities and workforce development.
• Champion high standards of patient care, professional practice, health and safety, and organisational values across the service.
• Support apprentices, students and learners undertaking healthcare programmes in partnership with practice education and widening participation teams.
• Travel across Gloucestershire to deliver training and support staff working in a variety of community settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Detailed Job description and main responsibilities –

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

The Trust aims to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services. It is the Trust’s view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document ‘Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice’ prior to applying for the role.

Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor. Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render them liable to dismissal.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to have been recognised as a ‘Veteran Aware Trust’, evidencing the provision of the best care for Veterans and driving to improve the care for veterans and their families. Find out more about this by clicking on the link at the right-hand side, titled ‘Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance’.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is

the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

Applicant requirements

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.