Practice Nurse Educator

Sussex Partnership Nhs Foundation Trust; Waldron; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in East Sussex is advertising a full-time fixed-term Practice Nurse Educator (PNE) role to cover maternity leave until end March 2027. This innovative clinical nursing role supports a learning environment and embeds a culture of learning within other clinical roles.

The PNE role provides clinical leadership to develop competence and confidence of the mental health nursing workforce and to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered mental health nurse with extensive recent clinical experience.
• Educated to degree level.
• Completion of recognised SLiP or Practice Assessors study days.
• Robust evidence of own personal development and supporting a learning environment.
• Experience in change management.
• Audit and research skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership through role modelling and oversight of clinical practice and support for nursing staff.
• Develop, deliver, and evaluate a programme of clinically relevant practice education for the nursing team.
• Promote high-quality patient-centred care grounded in evidence-based practice and aligned with governance standards.
• Contribute to organisational people, nursing, and quality plans and support service improvement initiatives.

Skills

Mentor experience

SLiP/Practice Assessors

Professional development

Change management

Audit and research

Education

Educated to degree level

Job description

Job summary

East Sussex Division are pleased to be advertising a full time fixed term Practice Nurse Educator (PNE) role to cover maternity leave until end March 2027. This is an innovative clinical mental health nursing role which supports the facilitation of a learning environment, embedding a learning culture and works as an addition to other clinical roles.

The PNE role offers the opportunity for registered mental health nurse to work in a clinical leadership role to support and educate the nursing workforce and works to develop competence and confidence of the mental health nursing workforce and improve the quality, safety and effectiveness of care provided to patients.

Main duties of the job

The PNE role will support the development and learning of our nursing workforce with a particular focus on newly qualified nurses. The PNE role will support the supply and retention of registered nurses and the mental health & well being of the workforce.

Please see attached Job Description for more details.

About us

The East Sussex Division employs over 200 nurses in various settings including urgent care, acute inpatient services for adults, older adults and dementia, complex emotional needs, community based services (in Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams) for adults, older adults and people with dementia.

Job responsibilities

To provide clinical leadership through role modelling and oversight of clinical practice along with support for registered and unregistered nursing staff (including those nurses recruited from overseas), and staff who support nursing delivery. This role seeks to enhance the clinical quality of care and treatment provided by the mental health workforce. Be responsible for the development, delivery, and evaluation of a programme of clinically relevant practice education to support the professional development of the nursing team, with a specific focus on enabling the delivery of high-quality patient/person centred care that is grounded in evidence-based practice and underpinned by national, organisational and trust objectives, guidelines, and policies. Actively support the objectives of the organisational people plan, nursing plan and quality plan. Provide specialist education knowledge to ensure that learning and teaching in clinical practice promotes and supports the Clinical Governance agenda and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards. Offer training and development based on essential skills for service improvement. Working collaboratively with the senior leadership team towards quality improvement.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered mental health nurse with extensive recent clinical experience
• Educated to degree level
• Completion of recognised Supporting Learners in Practice (SLiP) or Practice Assessors study days
• Robust evidence of own personal development, and that of influencing and supporting a learning environment within a team
• Experience in change management
• Audit and research skills

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

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).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).