# Learning and Professional Development Lead: Health Visiting > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/learning-and-professional-development-lead-health-visiting/17c39a04-1a11-43fd-9daa-f542e2c454d2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/learning-and-professional-development-lead-health-visiting/17c39a04-1a11-43fd-9daa-f542e2c454d2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Edward Jenner Court - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Health visitor - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: Job Share - **Employment type:** Part time, Job share, 16 hours per week (Over 2 days) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T15:45:57.733Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Tewkesbury/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Specialist_Health_Visitor/Specialist_Health_Visitor-v8313980 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8313980?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you passionate about developing the Health Visiting workforce of the future? We are seeking an experienced, innovative, and motivated Learning & Professional Development Lead for Health Visiting to partner our current postholder in a job share for 16 hours a week over two days. This exciting role will provide strategic leadership for workforce learning, education, professional development, and practice excellence across our Health Visiting Service. As a key leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that health visitors, community staff nurses, nursery nurses, students, apprentices, and support staff are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care to children, young people, and families. ### Main duties of the job About the Role The Learning & Professional Development Lead will: - Lead the development and implementation of learning and development strategies across the Health Visiting Service. - Promote a culture of continuous professional development, reflective practice, and lifelong learning. - Support workforce planning, succession planning, and talent development. - Work collaboratively with universities, education providers, NHS England, public health teams, and professional bodies. - Lead on student placements, preceptorship programmes, mentorship, and practice assessor/supervisor development. - Ensure compliance with professional, regulatory, and safeguarding training requirements. - Ensure National and local Public Health policy is included within practice documentation, policies and procedures. - Support quality improvement initiatives, evidence-based practice, and service innovation. - Provide professional leadership and expert advice on workforce development, professional and educational standards. - Monitor and evaluate learning outcomes and workforce capability to improve service delivery and patient outcomes. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities See Job Description and Person Specification This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Government’s UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas To support compliance with UK immigration requirements, all applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This includes current and previous sponsors, dates of sponsorship, visa category, and any changes of employment. If you are on a Graduate or Dependant Visa, please disclose the expiry date on your application. Incomplete information may mean we are unable to consider your application ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Has Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visiting qualification - Active registration on NMC part 1 or 2 and Part 3 of register **Desirable** - Practice Teacher or equivalent Level 3 NMC qualification ### Length and Nature of Experience **Essential** - Post qualification experience within Health Visiting services - Recent evidence of experience in teaching practice and assessment of competence at Level 3 or above **Desirable** - Experience of project management - Understanding and knowledge of quality improvement tools and methodologies ### Personal skills abilities and attributes **Essential** - Ability to lead clinical development and innovation within the team ### Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge **Essential** - Understanding and critical analysis of the research process and evidence-based practice - Evidence of maintaining and developing own specialist teaching practice in line with NMC Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice. **Desirable** - Knowledge of Clinical Supervision theory and models of practice - Knowledge of Clinical audit and risk management and the role of Clinical Governance. - Evidence of application of leadership and development skills. - Experience of developing and implementing polices / guidelines /SOPS ## Documents - [lpd jdps (pdf, 352.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10680732) - [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522) - [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.