Co-Lead Nurse Faculty of Education and Research
Band 8a
Main area: paediatric nursing education
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 22.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday working)
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
Job ref: 387-WC8490-DA
Site: Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, UHBW
Town: Bristol
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/03/2025 23:59
As an organisation, we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
This Co-Lead Nurse post for the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children's Faculty of Education and Research provides an opportunity for an expert in babies, children, and young people (CYP) nursing to professionally lead, manage, and role model the importance of education for nursing roles within a tertiary centre. The role also holds close links to the BRHC Clinical Academic Lead, ensuring the links to education and research capability are visible. The aim is to ensure a high standard of educational programmes are developed to flexibly meet clinical service needs.
The role also includes collaborating with educational teams across the Trust and wider Regional and National specialist educators to develop, share and learn practices which focus on quality education delivery. This role facilitates effective nursing education and competency-based training for Registrant Nursing, Nursing Support Roles, and apprentices working in paediatric environments within University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. The role is expected to consider CYP nursing education for the South West region as a tertiary centre, supporting our referring hospitals to ensure consistency and quality of care of the child in hospital, and where appropriate, contribute and collaborate with BCYP national nursing education projects.
Main duties of the job
The main duties include leading/managing the team who teach:
* Preparation for practice to pre-registrant apprentices
* Clinical skills development across a range of roles and proficiencies
* Qualification in Specialty: paediatric critical care (Levels 1, 2 & 3), cardiology & cardiac surgery, neurosciences, nephro-urology, haematology/oncology, and general surgery. This includes maintaining accreditation with the Paediatric Critical Care Society and ensuring courses meet national standards/frameworks
* Learner-centric teaching/learning methods to ward-based educators
* Working with the Clinical Academic Lead to build capability in nursing-led research
The role includes leadership across BRHC to raise the profile of education in nursing and its links to workforce development, recruitment, and retention. The role works within the Women and Children's Division of a large Trust and is expected to collaborate with other education teams across UHBW and represent CYP nursing in education discussions at a Trust-wide level.
The successful candidate represents BRHC at regional and national education meetings and will have opportunities to contribute to national CYP nursing education projects. The post holder must have a strong educational background as well as proficient clinical experience and be able to contribute to organisational and strategic aims for CYP nursing education for the Trust. The post also has budgetary responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston, and beyond.
As a forward-thinking, multi-award-winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston; join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds: city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce, we aim to recruit and retain a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role is a co-lead post, working alongside the existing Lead Nurse who is partially retiring.
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Comprehensive experience in teaching practice
* Extensive experience in clinical practice, preferably in acute paediatric care
* Extensive understanding of the roles and educational needs of the BCYP workforce
* Experience in developing new educational programmes and roles
* Extensive team and change management experience
* Experience in strategic organisation and development
* Knowledge of current issues within nurse education and the ability to relate these to education with BRHC
* Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Division and Trust-wide nursing agenda
* Experience of managing teams who work from home
* Knowledge of current changes in apprenticeship education
* Experience in research and auditing
* Experience in budgetary management
Qualifications
* Registrant with the NMC within child field and/or extensive practice in BCYP nursing
* Evidence of post-graduate level education or experiential equivalent (Level 7)
* Recognised teaching qualification
* Evidence of post-basic education in Critical Care or another specialty and application to expert level
* Evidence of leadership development
* Evidence of teaching for APLS or EPLS courses
Skills
* Sensitive to clinical and political demands
* Ability to work independently without supervision
* Ability to use a variety of IT software packages
* Ability to chair and/or participate actively in meetings, seminars, and conferences
* Ability to identify and evaluate options for education, training, and support for research programmes in delivering the aims of BRHC and UHBW and the wider health and social care community
* Ability to manage teams with diverse foci and facilitate/performance manage skills which enable progress
* Ability to use Learning Management Systems
* Collaborative and inclusive approach to work and leadership
* Excellent paediatric clinical skills
* Excellent problem-solving abilities
* Assertive, autonomous, and proactive
* Good work ethic
* Excellent role model
* Ability to use initiative, lead and manage change
* Ability to manage when under both individual and/or work pressures
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Strong advocate for the Nursing profession
* Flexible approach to work schedules
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
Contact Information
If you have problems applying, contact:
Address: United Bristol Healthcare Trust
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Marlborough Street
Bristol
BS2 8HW
Telephone: 01173425000 (option 1)
Name: Rebekah Overend
Job title: Lead RN, Faculty of Nursing Education & Research
Email address: rebekah.overend@uhbw.nhs.uk
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
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