East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
The Workforce Development, Education and Training Team (WDET) is a team within the Corporate Care Group that supports and delivers a wide range of education and training across the organisation and in partnership with local university and education partners and Kent & Medway ICB. We are committed to supporting clinical practitioners to deliver best practice and high quality, safe patient care through our education and training programmes. The Practice Development Nurse role is integral to the agenda of the Workforce Development, Education and Training Team and the Trust objectives.
The role of the Practice Development Nurse will hold a portfolio of responsibility to lead, deliver and continually develop educational programmes to support our growing nursing workforce and organisation. The role will require management of site based Clinical Skills & Learning Facilitators to support the WDET workstreams.
Main duties of the job
Working within the Chief Nursing Officer's Workforce Development, Education and Training team to deliver through leadership and team working, the achievement of annual objectives.
Job responsibilities
* Work with other PDNs in the WDET team to lead and take responsibility for the development of education programmes.
* Work in clinical practice with learners to support the assessment of competence, challenge practice as necessary and influence change through motivation and compassionate leadership, in alignment with evidence-based practice.
* Role model and share best practice, promote professionalism, uphold visibility and clinical credibility in practice.
* Collaborate with specialist teams to co-design, co-produce and co-evaluate programmes to ensure they meet the highest professional and clinical standards in collaborative partnership with Trust policy, guidance and all stakeholders.
* Be responsible for maintaining current and credible lesson plans, teaching resources, Google classrooms and competency documentation for all programmes delivered by WDET.
* Share and disseminate information to team and integrate key learning themes into education programme.
* Support the Clinical Skills Facilitators to achieve programme outcomes ensuring they are prepared to deliver course material and are always kept up to date with changes to the programmes and teaching materials.
* Monitor standardisation of teaching within WDET delivered Trust wide.
* Communicate with Ward Managers and Matrons to understand current clinical based practice learning requirements.
* Deliver teaching in both the classroom and clinical setting to meet programme objectives.
* Facilitate education programmes treating all learners with respect, considering equality, diversity, inclusion and individual learning requirements.
* Evaluate programme content and delivery, keep accurate records and adapt programmes as required in response to Trust changes and/or clinical incidents and priorities.
* Support and monitor compliance and standards in practice through audit, with the focused priority of maintaining patient safety.
* Manage and monitor attendance of education programmes on the Trust learning management system (ESR) via Business Intelligence reporting.
* Coordinate education programmes to ensure they are appropriately staffed and facilitated.
* Work with all stakeholders to ensure staff feel valued, supported and understand professional behaviours and standards.
* Network and engage with networks such as Practice Education Council to share and receive information.
* Maintain own clinical competence by working in clinical practice regularly and keep updated as per Trust policy and guidance.
* Work collaboratively with the WDET team and practitioners across EKHUFT to lead on projects that fulfil new service requirements.
* Manage our Clinical Skills Facilitators, taking into consideration health and wellbeing, appraisals and continuing professional development needs so that they may continue with career progression and development.
* Be responsible for own continual professional development.
* Report to the Lead Nurses for the Workforce Development, Education and Training Team.
* Potential future expectations of role to include the development of coaching through the use of a nursing model, such as CLIP, to transform practice learning for pre-registration nursing education.
* To collaboratively work with agreed stakeholders to increase quality and quantity of pre-registration practice placements.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Experience
* NMC registered or equivalent
* Experience of working in acute hospital Trust
* 2 years experience in band 6 role
* Experience of working in partnership with AEI's
Role specific
* Evidence of supporting and managing learners in the practice setting? ie. pre-registration learners
* Demonstrate your ability to receive and deliver constructive feedback.
* Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of quality, standards and compliance in practice.
Leadership & Self
* Experience of leading and managing others in a team.
* Evidence of the use of personal initiative and self-awareness to work with independence.
* Demonstrate an understanding of how you would contribute to and meet both operational and strategic objectives.
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.
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