We are looking to recruit a Community Practice Development Nurse to support the Community Nursing teams and other services in the North East of Hampshire.
This role is to develop the training needs for the staff from all disciplines within community services including supporting students who are on placement in the community nursing, Intermediate care teams.
This role requires teaching experience and knowledge of the current changes in evidence based practice within community nursing, therefore knowledge of community nursing is desirable for this role.
This role also requires you to work closely with the Matron for Community nursing and the wider Practice Development team within the trust.
There are fantastic training opportunities to develop your CPD by completing in-house and University modules. You will be given full support in this role for a variety of different sources.
This role is full time covering 5 days per week, you will be expected to travel to community nursing teams and other sites as part of your role clinically and as part of the Community Practice Development role.
To provide effective practice development for the Community, older persons, Palliative and Therapies Directorate focusing on the Practice development of the Community nursing and Intermediate care team.
• To facilitate clinical staff in community services in identifying opportunities for maintaining and improving standards of patient care.
• To support and facilitate innovation in care provision in a structured and systematic way.
• To offer professional guidance and support to clinical staff.
• To develop guidelines and implement developments in practice, and ensure these are audited.
• To co-ordinate education and training provision for Community Services.
• To work clinically 40% of contracted hours.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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This advert closes on Thursday 10 Apr 2025