Job Summary
The Practice Development lead for clinical skills role is central to ensuring nursing staff can access clinical support and core skills training, enabling delivery of high quality evidence-based care across the Trust and specifically supports the trust in providing safe quality care throughout.
Working in partnership with the Lead for retention and practice development, the post holder will develop and embed evidence-based clinical nursing practice across the trust through implementation and facilitation of clinically based education, training and skills development.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will lead to develop and deliver high quality training programmes, which are in the trust requirements. The post holder will use different data sources to identify incident trends, using data to inform updates to the training programme.
The post holder will undertake Manual Handling Training to ensure continuity of delivery within the Practice Development service.
The core programmes of training will include venepuncture, cannulation, intravenous access, and IV administration. The post holder will lead the clinical skills training team to ensure our nursing staff have access to clinical skills training.
There is an expectation that the post holder will also support our other Practice Development department programmes at peak times.
This post complements ward-based/specific induction and education and will support and facilitate core practice-based education to all sectors of the nursing workforce by delivering ward and clinical training and assessing clinical competency of core skills, role modeling best practice e.g. manual handling in conjunction with ward staff either in the classroom setting or clinical areas.
About Us
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the Year award 2021.
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
- We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Person Specification
Professional Qualification
Essential
1. 1st level Registered Nurse (degree or equivalent)
2. Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) (or willing to work towards) MSc in education/nursing speciality or able to demonstrate ability to work at master's level
3. Mentorship
4. Post registration acute Band 6 experience
Desirable
1. Clinical Skills and experience
2. Experience of teaching, educating and supporting learners
3. Evidence of trust values
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. #J-18808-Ljbffr