Professional Development Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS healthcare provider in London seeks a Senior Nurse to enhance clinical skills in end-of-life care. Responsibilities include providing mentorship, facilitating learning, and delivering high-quality, evidence-based care. The role requires both clinical and community nursing experience, a commitment to developing the team, and a proactive approach to improving patient care. Candidates must possess excellent communication and assessment skills.

Benefits

Continuous professional development

Supportive work environment

Inclusive workplace initiatives

Qualifications

• Minimum two years of clinical experience at Band 6 or equivalent.
• Proven community nursing experience required.
• Experience in end-of-life care or relevant qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide mentorship and facilitate work-based learning.
• Act as a clinical advisor and deliver high-quality patient care.
• Engage with clinical staff to improve care standards.

Skills

Leadership skills

Mentoring

Clinical assessment

Change management

Communication

Education

Nursing qualification

Evidence-based practice knowledge

End-of-Life Care training

Job description

Overview

+ To support the development of enhanced clinical skill in end-of-life care, ensuring access to appropriate development to maintain a competent workforce.

+ The post holder will provide mentorship and work-based learning facilitation, in-house curriculum design and teaching in end-of-life care.

+ To perform an expert clinical advisor and leadership role and professional support for the community teams, to ensure that safe and effective, high-quality evidence-based care is delivered in an efficient and cost-effective manner, ensuring that performance management targets are met and evidenced through data production and analysis.

+ Developing clinical governance through the support, monitoring and implementation of enhanced clinical standards and learning within the clinical services.

+ The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and also participate in the training of patients, relatives, carers, students and other health care professionals.

+ To act as a role model for clinical staff which addresses patient needs and ensure the delivery of safe patient care.

+ Keeps accurate, contemporaneous records and written reports as required.

+ Reports and proactively supports training and development issues arising from clinical and non-clinical incidents.

+ Proactively manages risk to vulnerable persons and supports training and development of staff as identified through development plans.

+ Participates / facilitates meetings in response to the clinical development needs of staff.

+ Works collaboratively with clinical professional colleagues and agencies to ensure effective communication in order that professional practice development needs for staff are identified.

+ Manages risk and maintains service delivery through effective communication and liaison with Service Managers, staff and Professional colleagues.

+ Engages constructively with clinicians and students to support, develop and enhance quality standards of clinical practice in the work environment.

+ Provides clinical leadership, development and advice to Clinical staff, patients and carers based on current evidence-based knowledge on end-of-life care.

+ Partakes in clinical supervision of registered professionals as required by the clinical supervision policy.

+ Maintains up to date clinical skills and knowledge in end-of-life care and maintains awareness of professional issues through the appraisal of research and evidence actively seeking out new sources.

+ Demonstrate personal accountability in their everyday practice and an understanding of their responsibility for staff to which they delegate actions.

+ Contributes to the improvement of patient care and patient safety by effectively disseminating and integrating evidence-based guidance into clinical practice, of both physical health, mental health and learning disabilities.

+ To incorporate patient preferences into treatment decisions, such as planning advanced directives near the end of life, including recording on clinical systems - RiO, LCR.

+ Ensure that the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Core Values are embedded.

Education

• Acts as a clinical and educational expert in end-of-life care, leading in clinical training, education and programmes for the Long-Term Conditions sub-directorate.
• Identifies learning needs for Clinical Professional staff and develops education programmes around end-of-life care.
• Identifies practice areas which require evaluation through team development planning and training needs analysis.
• Effectively manages competing demands of practice and education related to supporting different levels of learning and development.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of education and the impact on service delivery and patient care through audit and benchmarking processes.
• Facilitates learning by actively integrating theory to practice development.
• Proactively creates a positive learning environment within the clinical services which supports and underpins the principle of lifelong learning, work-based learning and continuing professional development.
• Provides support for learners, mentors and specialist practice students (community nursing pathway) in the education and development process.
• Promotes and facilitates understanding of relevant national and local policies in end-of-life care.
• Responsible for the development of an end-of-life skills data base and the development of career and professional development pathways for this service.

Clinical skills / Health and Well Being

• Maintain clinical skills to practice at a safe level and ensure that the use and application of equipment is in accordance with Trust standards.
• Exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and critical judgement. Make professionally autonomous decisions utilising knowledge and skills.
• Deliver a high standard of clinical and therapeutic care to patients in accordance with the senior practitioner competencies.

Service Improvement

• The post holder will work closely with the Head of Nursing to support professional recommendations in relation to service redesign and new ways of working.
• Act as a change agent, using skills that will motivate and reassure staff through negotiation and training to facilitate the change process.
• Ensure effective and efficient use of resources, equipment and supplies.

Quality / Competence

• Practice in accordance with your level of competency
• Maintain own professional registration in accordance with relevant regulatory body standards.
• Demonstrate ongoing professional development.
• The post holder is required to participate in the Trust appraisal process and work towards meeting identified development needs.
• Facilitate the collection of data.

On Call / Unsocial Hours

The service is currently provided from Monday-Friday, excluding bank holidays, 9.00-17.00.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please ensure you select this on your application form. We encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information regarding a disability or need for adjustments will be treated in confidence. If you require adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know when scheduling your interview date and time. Please contact the appointing manager with any needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have questions about the role or process to gain clarity.

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Role Commitment and Requirements

• You will be committed to the development of the team through effective leadership and will have opportunities to develop your own clinical skills through delivery of a wide range of evidence-based care and an active personal development plan. You must possess excellent communication, assessment and care planning skills and have excellent knowledge of clinical standards.
• Proven Senior Nurse clinical experience at Band 6 or equivalent in an acute or community setting, minimum two years at this level.
• Community Nursing experience
• Experience in End-of-Life Care / equivalent qualifications
• Experience of collaboration across organisational boundaries
• Experience of change management and implementing in practice
• Teaching / mentoring experience
• Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision
• Ability to undertake audit

Working for Our Organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people\'s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary\'s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

+ We\'re Kind
+ We\'re Fair
+ We Listen
+ We Care