Co-Lead Nurse Faculty of Education and Research, Bristol City
Client: University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Bristol City, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 5d1e50479f76
Job Views: 2
Posted: 03.03.2025
Expiry Date: 17.04.2025
Job Description:
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 also 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 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 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 organisational and strategic aims for CYP nursing education for the Trust. The post also has budgetary responsibilities.
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 which 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.
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