Practice Development Nurse

Job overview

Could you use your nursing skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That’s where you come in.

The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us. We are recruiting for an enthusiastic and organised Practice Development Nurses who will promote excellence in clinical practice, provide a visible presence and strong professional leadership across our community hospital teams.

You will foster an environment which values education as part of the philosophy of the practice area. Co-ordinate, facilitate and teach clinical educational activities for registered and non-registered Nursing staff within the designated practice areas to standardise and maintain a high standard of clinical competence across the workforce. To include working alongside Matrons and Operational leads to support the ongoing development of management and leadership skills across the teams at all levels.

Working closely with operational team leads you will identify gaps in clinical skills and knowledge in defined areas. This will include proactively supporting any learning from patient safety incidents and actions from complaints to improve standards and provide evidence and assurance regarding outcomes and devise appropriate training and support to meet the identified learning and professional development across the service

Main duties of the job

You will be a clinically credible practitioner able to work autonomously and with a team, teaching and demonstrating technical clinical skills and assessing competencies within clinical practice. Working with colleagues both at their bases and across the locality.

Drawing on your own clinical expertise support others to become confident and capable practitioners.

Through educational and improved clinical practice your aim will improve the patient experience and quality of care standards across clinical areas.

You will be required to maintain and keep up to date with clinical skill, current developments in research and nursing practice utilising evidence practice and align with professional standards, trust policy and agreed competency framework.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.