Practice Development Nurse - Inpatient

Job overview

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust offers an exciting opportunity for a Practice Development Nurse (PDN) to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our inpatient mental health services.

Do you thrive on making a difference? Are you an expert practitioner with a passion for empowering others?

As a Band 8a PDN, you'll provide ongoing support and development for all levels of nursing staff, ensuring they deliver exceptional patient care.

What you'll do:

• Act as a role model and expert practitioner, providing continuing education and coaching to nurses.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to drive the future of nursing through innovative practice development initiatives.
• Deliver educational programs and robust supervision, aligned with local and national best practice.
• Identify learning needs, develop resources, and facilitate change within the inpatient setting.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder is accountable to the Head of Nursing and thus will work closely with the Head of Nursing to develop practice within nursing.
• Collaborate with the Quality Improvement (QI) advisor and Head of Organisational Development to ensure effective implementation of change initiatives.
• Work in conjunction with the national culture of care team to coordinate the programme activities over the duration of the programme.
• Facilitate and sustainably embed learning and sharing within the ward, learning network, and broader community.
• Supporting wards in moving away from risk stratification and promoting personalised clinical safety planning.
• Highlight the use of QI methodologies and co-production with lived experience expertise as essential aspects of meaningful change.
• Supervise and support the lived experience quality management partner role.
• Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace.
• Be responsible for the continuing development of competency based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.
• Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.
• Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace.
• Be responsible for the continuing development of competency based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.
• Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.
• Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.
• Be involved in the developing of Policies, Procedures and Standard Operating procedures that will affect the Nurses in the directorate
• Ensure that agreed policies are followed to provide a safe environment for patients, relatives and staff.
• Ensure the effective communication between nursing colleagues, Multi- professional teams, patients, relatives/carers and provide advice and support where there are difficulties in relationships when appropriate.
• Lead, facilitate and participate in research projects and clinical audit and implement any changes.
• Deliver educational programmes in relation to clinical, practice and professional development using up to date methods of delivery, including e learning packages.
• In conjunction with Learning and Development department assist in the development of e-learning packages in line with borough clinical priorities.