Practice Development Nurse

Lewisham and Greenwich; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a Practice Development Nurse (Band 6-7) to lead and deliver education, shadowing and academic components within the District Nursing and Community Services teams at University Hospital Lewisham.

You will work with Divisional teams, the Clinical Academy and Practice Development Leads to identify needs, run courses, coordinate assessments and support workforce capability across the Trust. Training and progression opportunities are a key part of the post.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse and current professional registration.
• Degree in Nursing or equivalent.
• Teaching qualification (PG Certificate Practice Education or equivalent) or willingness to work towards one.
• Leadership and Management course or equivalent training.
• Other appropriate post-basic qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate education and clinical facilitation to nursing staff and learners.
• Coordinate educational activities and assessments within the department.
• Support and develop Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates, Health Care Support Workers and learners.
• Promote inter-professional learning across the division and Trust.

Skills

NMC Registered Nurse

Degree in Nursing

Teaching qualification

Leadership & Management

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Degree in Nursing or equivalent

Teaching qualification (PG Certificate Practice Education)

Leadership and Management course

Job description

Step into a place where exceptional care, patients, culture, and careers come together.

Explore our current vacancies and take your first step toward making a real difference.

Join us. Make a difference. Be part of Team LGT.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough‑based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Practice Development Nurse within the Corporate Practice Development Team. This role supports Community Services at the University Hospital Lewisham in creating and sustaining a high‑quality learning environment, enabling staff to develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies required to deliver safe and effective patient care.

The post holder will work in partnership with Divisional teams, the Clinical Academy, and Corporate Practice Development Leads to identify learning needs, deliver education, and support practice development aligned to organisational priorities. The role includes providing shadowing sessions, supporting workforce capability, and contributing to the delivery, organisation, and academic components of key Trust programmes, including the Fundamentals of Medical Care course. This includes supporting teaching, course coordination, and academic processes such as assessment and marking.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the District Nursing Service provides a progressive learning environment for all grades of Clinical Staff within their remit. The post holder will support and adjust the development of Registered Nurse, Nursing Associates, Health Care Support Workers and both pre‑ and post‑registration learners by co‑ordinating educational activities and assessments of learning within the department.

The post holder will actively promote and contribute to inter-professional learning activities across the Division and Trust wide, acting as an effective role model for best practice registered professional. The post holder will provide educational and clinical support for the Registered Professionals in the clinical area.

We welcome applications from those interested in developing into the role of Practice Development Nurse. You will initially be employed as a Practice Development NurseDevelopmental Post (Band 6) and you will be supported through a practice development programme, once all the set elements of the program are completed and signed off, you will automatically progress into a Practice Development Nurse (Band 7) role.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practice Development Nurse are expected to be compassionate, responsive and professional, contributing to the quality of the services we provide by:

Working in accordance with the regulating body NMC, Trust and Clinical Academy Policies and Procedures.

Ensuring that own practice demonstrates current clinical knowledge

Working alongside clinical staff in the community to support individual Nurses in developing their practice.

Producing written accounts of relevant episodes of clinical facilitation, documenting learning achieved and areas for further development.

Demonstrating highly developed specialist knowledge in clinical settings and supporting the advancement of knowledge and skills using approved assessment procedures.

Working effectively as part of the multi-professional, inter-disciplinary team, encouraging and supporting other health care professionals in the promotion and maintenance of an effective learning environment.

Maintaining effective working relations with colleagues at all levels and from all professions within the Division, always ensuring effective communication.

Able to communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information which might include discussions about academic progress, safe practice and professional standards.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• NMC Registered Nurse
• A Degree in Nursing or equivalent
• A clinical expert either through formal qualification (diploma/degree) and/or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area.
• Other appropriate post basic qualifications and experience
• Teaching qualification (PG Certificate Practice Education or equivalent) or a willingness to work towards one
• Leadership and Management course

Experience

• Significant experience of Band 6 acute care experience
• Significant and proven clinical and management skills within a relevant clinical field
• Evidence of effective multi-disciplinary working.
• Previous involvement in quality initiatives.
• Experience in teaching, mentoring and assessment
• Experience of audit/QI Project
• Experience of inter-professional teaching and learning in the clinical environment including undergraduate medical education

Experience Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrates evidence of developing innovative practice and of being proactive in managing change
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Computer literate with good skills using the Microsoft packages
• Research awareness and demonstrates how this relates to practice
• Demonstrates an understanding of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Awareness of current developments in own clinical specialty.

Personal Qualities

• Able to work clinically and undertake a full range of duties with regards to patient care
• Demonstrates commitment to high standards of patient care and service delivery
• A genuine desire to be a learning facilitator with demonstrable enthusiasm for practice development

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or be LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. The post will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.