Practice Development Nurse - Surgery

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Orpington; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS teaching hospital in Orpington is offering a Band 6 Nurse position within the Practice Development Team. This role provides a fantastic opportunity to enhance your leadership skills, support educational activities, and help develop nursing staff. The ideal candidate should have at least 12 months of experience at Band 6 level and a passion for creating a positive learning environment. This position is integral to promoting professional development and ensuring compliance with training standards.

Qualifications

• At least 12 months of experience at Band 6 level.
• Strong clinical and communication skills.
• Experience in educational activities, training, and assessment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a progressive learning environment for nursing staff.
• Coordinate development and training for Health Care Assistants and nursing students.
• Act as the education and training lead for the specialist area.
• Promote inter-professional learning activities across the Trust.

Job description

Job overview

We are offering a fantastic secondment opportunity to join our dynamic Practice Development Team. This is your chance to step into a leadership role, shape the future of nursing, and support the learning and development of staff across Neurosciences.

What’s in it for you?

• Develop your leadership skills in education, teaching, and assessing
• Inspire and support nursing staff and students to reach their full potential
• Work alongside a multi-disciplinary team in a progressive learning environment
• Gain invaluable experience in practice development and clinical education
• Enhance your career prospects by stepping into a senior role

What are we looking for?

We want an experienced, enthusiastic, and proactive Band 6 Nurse with at least 12 months of experience at this level, who is eager to take on a challenge and help drive excellence in nursing education.

The ideal candidate will :

• Have strong clinical and communication skills
• Be a confident leader, mentor, and educator
• Demonstrate adaptability, teamwork, and sound judgment
• Be highly organised and able to work under pressure
• Have experience in educational activities, training, and assessment
• Be passionate about creating a positive and progressive learning environment
• Support statutory and mandatory training compliance
• Actively contribute to inter-professional learning and development across the Trust
• Work clinically as part of the team when required (1-2 LD shifts per month)

Main duties of the job

• To maintain primary responsibility for ensuring the Care Group provides a progressive learning environment for all grades of nursing staff.
• To support and coordinate the development of Health Care Assistants, TNAs, NAs, and both pre- and post-registration nursing students by coordinating educational activities and assessments of learning within the department.
• To assist in the preparation of internationally educated nurses for their OSCEs, depending on specialist skills and area of expertise.
• To support statutory and mandatory training as required to ensure compliance within the Care Group and Trust-wide (including, but not limited to, ALERT, ILS, ALS, PILS, EPLS, APLS, NALS).
• To actively promote and contribute to inter-professional learning activities across the Care Group and Trust-wide.
• To provide effective role modelling and leadership by working clinically as per service needs and identified job plan clinical percentage.
• To act as the education and training lead for the specialist area of practice.
• To provide pastoral support, guidance, and training to all stakeholders on all aspects of pre- and post-registration nursing and midwifery.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, million patient contacts a year and around 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in Southeast London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Our values at King’s, are that we’re a kind, respectful team.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reachis our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (EDI) at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King’s to another level

King’s is dedicated to embracing the broad diversity of our staff, patients and communities and stand firmly against all forms of prejudice and discrimination.