Job Description

CFHD are recruiting to a fixed term post until 30th April 2026, for an Associate Clinical Director in Nursing. This post is 21.75 hours per week at Band 8b.



The ACD for Nursing is part of the wider CFHD Senior Leadership Team and as such will be called upon to make leadership as well as clinical decisions for the service.



The Associate Directors will each hold responsibility for leading professional discipline(s) and an area of the Quality agenda and hold their own portfolio for patient safety and professional standards.



You will be responsible for clinical leadership across CFHD and professional leadership, service and policy development of nursing services across the CFHD portfolio of services in Devon Partnership Trust (DPT) and Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust (TSDFT).



Carry a specialist caseload of patients and provide advice and consultancy to patients and professionals.



Manage, lead and motivate clinicians, assistant(s), trainee(s) from your own and/or other professions.



Undertake research, teaching and lecturing and will be responsible for nursing aspects of policy development for CFHD services across DPT and TSDFT.



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Why Work With Us



Children and Family Health Devon is a system-wide service that delivers an integrated, coordinated support model which wraps around the child, young person and family. It has been specifically designed to respond to all elements of the commissioner's strategy and specification along with the vision and strategic direction of the STP. It builds on our strong relationships across education, health, social care and voluntary sector services in Devon, and, most importantly, it has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.



Part of the clinical leadership team building a culture of compassionate leadership, to collaborate across the Devon system, to provide expert knowledge and leadership, to deliver evidenced based services, to ensure that the NHS nursing profession within CFHD adheres to the NMC standards of practices.



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