As Lead Nurse Clinical and Professional Development, you will provide national leadership for clinical education and workforce development across Blood Donation. You will lead the quality and assurance of education and training for Registered Nurses and Donor Carers, helping colleagues deliver safe, evidence-based care. You will shape clinical education and workforce development, translate professional and regulatory requirements into effective learning, and use data, feedback and learning from incidents to continually improve programmes. You will also provide professional nursing leadership, support delivery of the NHSBT Nursing Strategy and lead key areas including professional development, revalidation, inclusion and staff-feedback action planning. This is an influential national role with the opportunity to strengthen workforce capability and make a direct contribution to clinical quality and donor safety.,
- Provide national leadership for the design, development and quality assurance of clinical education across Blood Donation. Lead and develop the Education & Training Hub team, including recruitment, supervision, appraisal and talent development.
- Co-design and implement clinical education and workforce development strategy, ensuring programmes are effective, evidence based and continually improved.
- Provide specialist professional nursing leadership in areas including revalidation, practice development, competency assessment and professional investigations.
- Translate regulatory, professional and clinical requirements into safe, compliant and high-quality education and training.
- Monitor clinical and training data, KPIs, feedback, incidents and risks to identify improvements and provide assurance.
- Build effective partnerships with senior leaders, universities, regulators and other external organisations, representing clinical education at relevant forums.
- Lead or contribute to audit, research, evaluation and innovation to improve education and professional practice.
- Manage delegated budgets, contribute to cost improvement and support the development and procurement of digital learning solutions.
- Support delivery of the NHSBT Nursing Strategy across Blood Supply and lead key workforce initiatives including Our Voice and EDI action planningIt takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work