Expected Shortlisting Date
23/12/2024
Planned Interview Date
02/01/2025
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse (Adult) with a strong clinical background and a keen interest in education, training and staff development? Do you have a passion for delivering and promoting excellent standards of care to patients?
An exciting, full-time opportunity has arisen with the Neurosciences education team at the Leeds General Infirmary, where we care for patients with a wide range of departments including: Neurosurgery, Neurology, Spinal Surgery and Stroke services. The post holder will be expected to work across the Clinical Service Unit (CSU) with clinical colleagues to develop and embed good practice, provide innovative teaching and education, and embed evidence-based practice.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as a professional role model and support all clinical colleagues across Neurosciences. The post holder will provide up to date evidence-based practice and support colleagues from the start of their journey with us, throughout their career, this includes registered and unregistered practitioners.
The post holder will use their knowledge, skills and experience to plan, organise and deliver quality training and education, on a range of subjects. The post holder will ensure the evaluation and audit of the education and training provided.
About us
The Neurosciences Clinical Education team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to staff education and development, we want every individual to reach their full potential which helps everyone to provide the highest quality care to patients. We are a small, passionate team dedicated to providing evidence-based, compassionate care to patients.
We focus on education, training and development alongside promoting the health and well-being of the staff within Neurosciences.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support, educate and develop registered and unregistered staff in their clinical role in order to deliver high quality, evidence based care to service users. The post holder will contribute to the planning, implementation and evaluation of education.
They will work in collaboration with the senior management team to maintain the vision and objectives of the Neurosciences units and ensure these are embedded in practice.
The post holder will lead by example and be responsible for disseminating good practice and actively challenge assumptions, practice and performance where appropriate.
Please refer to the additional Job Description attachment for full requirements.
Person Specification
Skills & behaviours
Essential
* Good problem solving and decision making abilities
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and that of others
* Act as a role model, demonstrating evidence based practice
* Flexible, adaptable and capable of lateral thinking
Desirable
* Change Management Skills
* Team Player
* Able to deliver feedback to others
* Positive approach to change
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Nurse
* Relevant teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable
* Degree in Nursing or evidence of working at this level
Experience
Essential
* Significant recent relevant clinical experience
* Experience with audit and standard setting
Desirable
* Working within Neurosciences
* Multi-disciplinary working
* Experience undertaking a Quality Improvement Project
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
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