The closing date is 27 December 2024
Band
Band 7
Salary
£51,883 to £58,544 a year Per annum plus inclusive of Outer London HAC
Job summary
Do you have a passion for teaching, assessing and developing clinical staff?Do you want to help improve patient care and the service as a whole through helping cultivate a competent and experienced work force?
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the District Nursing Service for a dynamic Practice Development Nurse to support our amazing nursing teams.
This post would suit a highly motivated and adaptable nurse who has excellent knowledge of clinical skills and proven teaching and assessing skills with a strong community nursing background.
You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be an exceptional clinical role model. We anticipate that you will be highly visible, working alongside the community nurses in their day to day practice.
You will be supporting and promoting registered nurses and healthcare support workers through their clinical competency development and leadership.
We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, flexible and willing to travel across the Trust. The Trust covers a large, diverse population and the borough includes several parks, good schools and shopping areas.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clear and effective leadership for community nursing staff to promote the highest possible clinical standards.
- Work with clinicians to evaluate data collection and audit professional practice .
- Identify training needs and co-ordinate relevant training programmes to meet individuals and service delivery targets.
- Organise professional induction programmes, updating of clinical practice and provide teaching sessions where appropriate.
- To teach formally and informally, on areas of evidence-based practice and develop systems to monitor and support the supervision and appraisal of junior staff in all aspects of nursing care.
- Work closely with area managers and the nursing directorate to ensure service development is planned in accordance with local/national priorities and identified best practice.
- Review ways of working to ensure staff are able to work effectively in line with the clinical governance frameworks and the service modernisation agenda.
- Lead on or contribute to the development and review of community nursing policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards ensuring implementation of evidence-based policies/guidelines and protocols.
- Ensure quality systems and essence of care are in place to support the quality agenda and be responsible for collating evidence and information relating to the health care standards.
About us
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and Person Specification
- Lead on or contribute to the development and review of community nursing policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards ensuring implementation of evidence-based policies/guidelines and protocols.
- Ensure quality systems and essence of care are in place to support the quality agenda and be responsible for collating evidence and information relating to the health care standards.
After several years of ever closer working, North Mid and Royal Free London are planning to come together as one organisation to enable them to go further and faster in improving services for patients and the health of the local community than they can achieve separately. The merger of North Mid into the RFL group is currently expected to take place on 1 January 2025, subject to NHS England and Secretary of State approval.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oDegree in Nursing oDistrict Nurse Specialist practitioner
- oPractice Assessor or Community Practice teacher
- EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE Well-developed understanding of professional development/quality issues in context of primary/community care
Desirable
- Experience in monitoring and improving standards
- Quality Improvement Project
- Nurse Assessor/Nurse Supervisor
desirable
Essential
- Leadership development
Desirable
- Nurse Assessor/Nurse Supervisor Leadership development
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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).