Job requirements
Essential
39 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills.
Influencing and negotiating skills.
- Skills.
Ability to undertake challenging conversations with individuals who may be distressed and divulge distressing issues.
- Skills.
Effective managerial, leadership and motivation skills.
- Skills.
Effective teaching, training, and preceptorship skills for large groups of learners.
- Skills.
Ability to design, implement and evaluate bespoke programmes of learning and projects
- Skills.
Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- Skills.
Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload
- Skills.
IT competent using Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint, Forms
- Skills.
Excellent time management skills.
- Skills.
Ability to work to deadlines
- Skills.
Ability to work collaboratively across a range of professions.
- Skills.
Ability to communicate and network with a wide range of people from a variety of settings, including NMC, NHSE, national and regional events
- Skills.
Act as an advocate, using escalation and signposting to other services as appropriate
- Knowledge and Experience.
Demonstrates awareness of current changes in the NHS.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Experience of managing challenging situations to meet a positive outcome.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Proven track record of teaching and supporting learners in practice.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Effective leadership and experience in the management of change.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Experience of conducting appraisals and supporting others.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Evidence of recruiting and inducting new staff.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Knowledge of current Development opportunities within UHN.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Experience of managing a team and staff performance.
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Educated to level 6 or equivalent level of education or experience.
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Teaching qualification.
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Practice Assessor and Practice supervisor qualification or teaching qualification.
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients, and service users
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Proven ability to communicate effectively with staff, patients, learners, and carers from a diverse background
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Flexible and resilient
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Works effectively within a team
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
An ability to remain positive during service changes and challenges
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Ability to problem solve, anticipate, and forward plan
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Act as a role model to others
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with UHN vision and values
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Able to demonstrate reflective practice and facilitate this in others
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Must be able to demonstrate understanding of, and behaviours consistent with the NMC Code 2015
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Ability to remain calm when working under pressure and seek help when required
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Ability to maintain a high level of concentration when managing competing demands
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Physical effort is required both clinically and setting up/managing educational activities
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Ability to travel between the Kettering and Northampton Hospital sites and other UHN sites where required
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills.
Awareness of the wider agenda and the need for public/service user involvement
- Knowledge and Experience.
Post registration experience within a clinical setting for at least two years.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Experience of quality assurance auditing related to education requirements.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Experience of interpreting and managing complex data management and returns.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Experience of managing a complex workload.
- Knowledge and Experience.
Developing and Evaluating Teaching Programmes
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Leadership qualification
- Education, Training and Qualifications
Management qualification
Job overview
This post if a full time UHN corporate Practice Development Nurse working within the Pre Registration Team predominately
The post will include cross site working across UHN to support pre registration learners in practice and support staff in supporting learners in Practice .
It involves teaching , arranging induction's , designing training &, supporting the wider Practice development team as required
Main duties of the job
Assist with any of the six primary workstreams in the education department: Preceptorship, Clinical skills, Corporate Practice Development, Healthcare Support Worker Leadership and Pre-registration learners
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Deliver competency-based and relevant education and training programmes across the Trust to support ongoing professional development.
- To be involved in the specific developments of programmes and education delivery
- Be innovative and encourage proactive evidence-based practice to inform service development.
- Promote effective collaboration among members of the multidisciplinary team to enhance the overall patient experience.
- Collaborate with colleagues and service users to assess the evolving needs of the local population. Promote practices that are dynamic, efficient, innovative, and regularly updated to ensure they remain relevant and responsive to these needs, particularly in educating staff for effective service delivery.
- Develop and implement informed guidelines to ensure consistent, evidence-based best practice.
- Ensure compliance with internal and external healthcare standards and contribute to policy formation
- Act as a clinical role model, demonstrating supportive behaviours
- Where specific requirements are expected within the UHN Nursing Education Development team i.e. clinical working, pathway development/training; organise how these will be timetabled alongside the corporate requirements
- Be willing to support service delivery of education & development at both NGH and KGH sites where applicable
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.
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This advert is for Corporate Practice Development Nurse with Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Kettering, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 Pro Rata if Part Time. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Nov 2026.
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