Job summary
The Practice Development Lead within the Wider Workforce Team is a proactive role-model and senior member of the Institute of Care Excellence faculty, who leads on practice development and the professional development of nursing/midwifery staff across NUH to ensure the successful delivery of the N&M Strategy.
As a key leadership role within the Institute of N&M Care Excellence, works to promote, establish and facilitate the delivery of the priority objectives of the Institute.
Provides leadership, advice and support, fostering a learning culture which values high quality patient care, evidence based practice, research and innovation.
Works in partnership with the Institute Clinical Leads/ Divisional senior nurses/ Matrons/ ward/department managers to ensure the delivery of the N&M Strategy and implementation of effective strategies to enhance staff satisfaction, staff engagement, improved staff retention and multi-disciplinary team working to achieve agreed, common goals/outcomes. Ensures the highest standards of education, research, and clinical care are in place and in collaboration with the trust and divisional senior nursing team implements,
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have line management responsibilities for the Wider Workforce Team. They will work closely with with the Senior Nurse for Practice Education and the Clinical Lead for Professional Development and Education, to deliver the wider workforce portfolio.
The PDL will be a strong clinical leader, easily identifiable, highly visible and accessible to corporate and divisional education leads, divisional nurses, senior midwifery leaders and practice supervisors and assessors. They will have a particular responsibility to liaise with HEI partners and clinical teams to appropriately share and make decisions on learner assessment and progression, particularly apprentices. The PDL will work with the ADN and the Clinical Lead to respond effectively to concerns and complaints about public protection and learner performance in learning environments.
They will support service improvement by responding to the learning needs of the individuals. The post holder will ensure the active involvement of education leads, senior nurses and midwives in the way practice learning and clinical support are developed, delivered and evaluated.
About us
Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives, and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.
With more than 20,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond. Our Trust spans over three sites including Queen's Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House.
We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.
As a teaching hospital, we are instrumental in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
We are also the current home of Channel 4's award-winning series 24 Hours in A&E, which takes a look inside one of the country's busiest emergency departments at QMC and showcases the dedication, passion and skill of our teams.
This is an exciting time to join NUH and help support our future ambitions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Current level one NMC registration
- Diploma or degree in nursing studies
- Relevant post-basic study e.g. specialist pathway Have a suitable post graduate Teaching & Assessing Qualification e.g. Practice teacher, PGCert
- Practice supervisor and assessor
- Evidence of Master's level study
Desirable
- Continuing professional development/ reflective profile.
- Formal leadership and management training/ Research training/experience.
- ECDL
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in acute care settings at band 5 and 6 and experience of leading the implementation of complex practice education strategies across multiple and diverse clinical teams.
- Leads and acts as a role model in clinical practice and experienced at leading and supervising a team.
- Experienced preceptor with evidence of clinical leadership skills and experienced supervisor and assessor of pre-registration students, newly qualified nurses and other multi professional learners, experience in providing feedback.
- Demonstrate involvement and leadership in enhancing practice education environment and developing new staff.
- Ability to manage the clinical area efficiently and effectively.
- Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to apprentices, student nursing associates, nursing associates, newly qualified nurses and midwives, students/learners, patients, relative/carers and staff.
Desirable
- Recent or current experience within practice education across different specialities.
- Demonstrate an involvement in link nurse, or project work.
- Audit or research within the clinical area.
Communication and Relationship Skills
Essential
- Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Produce timely, accurate written/electronic records and documents.
- Demonstrate IT skills including use of Word, PowerPoint and managing data using Excel.
- Recognition of own level of competence and limitations and able to communicate these to appropriate staff.
- Can minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication.
- Successful implementation and management of a nursing change process.
- Evidence of formal teaching experience.
Desirable
- Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills.
- Demonstrate evidence of providing formal teaching sessions.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an ability to assess, plan, deliver, prioritise and evaluate patient care.
- Ability to identify own learning needs.
- Able to respond to problem situations and to ensure that effective interventions are put in place.
Desirable
- Demonstrate a knowledge of current issues related to the NHS policies.
- Evidence of data collection and analysis.
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload and recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
- Experienced in leading, planning and delivering complex practice education programmes.
- Responds to changing complex education needs of learners and clinical services
- Able to contribute to the development of implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans.
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise workload of self and others.
- Demonstrate effective resource management.
- Lead on student / learner tariff overview, reporting and income generation from other learner placement activity.
- Ability to prioritise and respond under pressure in complex situations requiring sensitive management. Demonstrate effective time management skills.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Physically able to perform the full range of nursing duties.
- Dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, use of equipment and documentation.
- Competent and capable of using medical equipment.
- Able to undertake patient manual handling manoeuvres and non-patient manual handling manoeuvres.
Other requirements
Essential
- Car driver (to attend meetings across ICB, HEIs and various external venues).
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Enhanced DBS clearance.
- Recruitment and selection of staff experience.
- Ability to work occasional unsocial hours as required.
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Current level one NMC registration
- Diploma or degree in nursing studies
- Relevant post-basic study e.g. specialist pathway Have a suitable post graduate Teaching & Assessing Qualification e.g. Practice teacher, PGCert
- Practice supervisor and assessor
- Evidence of Master's level study
Desirable
- Continuing professional development/ reflective profile.
- Formal leadership and management training/ Research training/experience.
- ECDL
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in acute care settings at band 5 and 6 and experience of leading the implementation of complex practice education strategies across multiple and diverse clinical teams.
- Leads and acts as a role model in clinical practice and experienced at leading and supervising a team.
- Experienced preceptor with evidence of clinical leadership skills and experienced supervisor and assessor of pre-registration students, newly qualified nurses and other multi professional learners, experience in providing feedback.
- Demonstrate involvement and leadership in enhancing practice education environment and developing new staff.
- Ability to manage the clinical area efficiently and effectively.
- Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to apprentices, student nursing associates, nursing associates, newly qualified nurses and midwives, students/learners, patients, relative/carers and staff.
Desirable
- Recent or current experience within practice education across different specialities.
- Demonstrate an involvement in link nurse, or project work.
- Audit or research within the clinical area.
Communication and Relationship Skills
Essential
- Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Produce timely, accurate written/electronic records and documents.
- Demonstrate IT skills including use of Word, PowerPoint and managing data using Excel.
- Recognition of own level of competence and limitations and able to communicate these to appropriate staff.
- Can minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication.
- Successful implementation and management of a nursing change process.
- Evidence of formal teaching experience.
Desirable
- Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills.
- Demonstrate evidence of providing formal teaching sessions.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an ability to assess, plan, deliver, prioritise and evaluate patient care.
- Ability to identify own learning needs.
- Able to respond to problem situations and to ensure that effective interventions are put in place.
Desirable
- Demonstrate a knowledge of current issues related to the NHS policies.
- Evidence of data collection and analysis.
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload and recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
- Experienced in leading, planning and delivering complex practice education programmes.
- Responds to changing complex education needs of learners and clinical services
- Able to contribute to the development of implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans.
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise workload of self and others.
- Demonstrate effective resource management.
- Lead on student / learner tariff overview, reporting and income generation from other learner placement activity.
- Ability to prioritise and respond under pressure in complex situations requiring sensitive management. Demonstrate effective time management skills.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Physically able to perform the full range of nursing duties.
- Dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, use of equipment and documentation.
- Competent and capable of using medical equipment.
- Able to undertake patient manual handling manoeuvres and non-patient manual handling manoeuvres.
Other requirements
Essential
- Car driver (to attend meetings across ICB, HEIs and various external venues).
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Enhanced DBS clearance.
- Recruitment and selection of staff experience.
- Ability to work occasional unsocial hours as required.
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).