Corporate Practice Development Nurse

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust; Kettering; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated nurse educator to deliver competency-based education and training across the Trust, supporting ongoing professional development. The role focuses on innovation, evidence-based practice, and service development with close collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities include developing guidelines, ensuring compliance with standards, and timetabling educational work for NGH and KGH sites as needed, promoting staff

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Educated to level 6 or equivalent level of education or experience.
• Teaching qualification.
• Practice Assessor and Practice supervisor qualification or teaching qualification.

Responsibilities

• Deliver competency-based and relevant education and training programmes across the Trust to support ongoing professional development.
• Be innovative and encourage proactive evidence-based practice to inform service development.
• Promote effective collaboration among multidisciplinary team to enhance patient experience.
• Collaborate with colleagues and service users to assess evolving needs of the local population.

Skills

Influencing & negotiating

Leadership

Teaching & preceptorship

Communication

Time management

IT skills (MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint/…

Education

NMC registered nurse

Level 6 education or equivalent

Teaching qualification

Practice Assessor/Supervisor qualification

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Forms

Job description

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

Person specification

Education, Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Educated to level 6 or equivalent level of education or experience.
• Teaching qualification.
• Practice Assessor and Practice supervisor qualification or teaching qualification.

Desirable criteria

• Leadership qualification
• Management qualification

Knowledge and Experience.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates awareness of current changes in the NHS.
• Experience of managing challenging situations to meet a positive outcome.
• Proven track record of teaching and supporting learners in practice.
• Effective leadership and experience in the management of change.
• Experience of conducting appraisals and supporting others.
• Evidence of recruiting and inducting new staff.
• Knowledge of current Development opportunities within UHN.
• Experience of managing a team and staff performance.

Desirable criteria

• Post registration experience within a clinical setting for at least two years.
• Experience of quality assurance auditing related to education requirements.
• Experience of interpreting and managing complex data management and returns.
• Experience of managing a complex workload.
• Developing and Evaluating Teaching Programmes

Skills.

Essential criteria

• Influencing and negotiating skills.
• Ability to undertake challenging conversations with individuals who may be distressed and divulge distressing issues.
• Effective managerial, leadership and motivation skills.
• Effective teaching, training, and preceptorship skills for large groups of learners.
• Ability to design, implement and evaluate bespoke programmes of learning and projects
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload
• IT competent using Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint, Forms
• Excellent time management skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Ability to work collaboratively across a range of professions.
• Ability to communicate and network with a wide range of people from a variety of settings, including NMC, NHSE, national and regional events
• Act as an advocate, using escalation and signposting to other services as appropriate

Desirable criteria

• Awareness of the wider agenda and the need for public/service user involvement

Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential criteria

• 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
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with staff, patients, learners, and carers from a diverse background
• Flexible and resilient
• Works effectively within a team
• An ability to remain positive during service changes and challenges
• Ability to problem solve, anticipate, and forward plan
• Act as a role model to others
• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with UHN vision and values
• Able to demonstrate reflective practice and facilitate this in others
• Must be able to demonstrate understanding of, and behaviours consistent with the NMC Code 2015
• Ability to remain calm when working under pressure and seek help when required
• Ability to maintain a high level of concentration when managing competing demands
• Physical effort is required both clinically and setting up/managing educational activities
• Ability to travel between the Kettering and Northampton Hospital sites and other UHN sites where required

Important Information

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

We welcome applications from members of our black and minority ethnic (BME) communities, especially in relation to senior posts within at KGH.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

Appointments will be made on merit.

If you need to have a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, as a requirement of the role, you will be required to repay the cost of obtaining a DBS check (£49.50) and this amount will be reclaimed from your first salary. From 1st February 2019 all new starters to the Trust are required to join the DBS update service as per Trust DBS Re-checking Policy which has an annual cost of £16. New employees who do not join the update service will be required to pay £49.50 for a new DBS check in 3 years time.

Please note that news starters with KGH are subject to a six month probationary period.

Please ensure that the information you provide on your application form is correct, accurate and that nothing has been omitted. Any information that is stated in your application form in relation to qualifications/training courses/work/education experience/references must be able to be evidenced. Failure to do so may result if your offer being withdrawn.

'Safeguarding is everyone's business. KGH considers Safeguarding a priority amongst its citizen's and a key value for all employed to the service.'

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

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