Job overview
This post is for a fixed period of 2 years to facilitate and support the clinical, professional, and educational development of mental health nursing workforce colleagues. The post is suitable for registered mental health nurse with extensive clinical experience, experience in education and skills as a Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) demonstrated through qualification and practice.
The overarching aim of the Professional Nurse Educator (PNE) is to facilitate and support the clinical, professional, and educational development of mental health nursing workforce colleagues (including but not limited to registered nurses, student nurses and healthcare support workers) across Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will be responsible to work with the Professions and QualityTeam, and Clinical and Quality Leads across GMMH.
Main duties of the job
The PNE willdeliver, monitor, and evaluate the preceptorship programme and clinically relevant practice education to support the professional development of the mental health nursing team, with a specific focus on enabling the delivery of high-quality patient/person centred care that is grounded in evidence-based practice and underpinned by national, organisational and trust objectives, guidelines, and policies.
The PNE will track and monitor the compliance of the preceptorship pathway for preceptees across GMMH.
The postholder will provide expert knowledge and clinical leadership to all nurses within the clinical team, facilitating the application of theory to practice across GMMH clinical settings.
This is a protected role to improve staff experience, well-being and professional safety of the mental health workforce by offering ongoing support and restorative clinical supervision leading to improved staff retention with a focus upon preceptorship, retire and return and revalidation.The post holder will be supernumerary.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Leadership in Clinical Practice and Education
Lead by example, acting as a role model to others by demonstrating effective professional attitudes and behaviours.
At all times promote and safeguard the interests and wellbeing of patients, relatives, and staff.
Collaborate with colleagues to review and evaluate existing clinical practice training and development programmes and develop new training initiatives.
Organise and provide high quality evidence-based clinical, theoretical, educational and training programmes in response to identified training needs analysis based upon local and national guidelines, Quality Improvement agenda and reviews.
Provide a bespoke/structured in-house education and training programme to enable staff to meet the on-going needs of the patient and their family.
Support the development of clinical competence across the nursing workforce, including (but not limited to) registered nursing staff, nursing students and healthcare support workers.
Provide regular and consistent restorative supervision, mentorship, coaching and facilitation for all staff to enable the development of confidence and critical thinking in clinical and operational duties.
Facilitate and deliver learning through a blended approach using quality assured materials to support individual learning needs and styles.
Facilitate staff to assess their skills, knowledge, attitude, attributes and abilities against a role specific clinical competency framework and assist in the development and implementation of effective personal development plans in conjunction with their line manager (as required).
Ensure that all clinical training and development programmes meet current curriculum requirements and professional standards of nursing practice.
Encourage a supportive learning culture where students and nursing staff can maximise opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes related to professional development, preceptorship and Nurse registration and revalidation.
Monitor preceptorship compliance, leading preceptors and precptees to complete the preceptorship pathway utilising deadlines and goals indicated in the GMMH Preceptorship Policy, NHSE Standards and NMC guidance.
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
1. Pay Enhancements:
2. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
3. Excellent pension
4. Cycle to work scheme
5. Salary sacrifice car scheme
6. Wellbeing programme
7. fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person specification
Education/Qualification/practice
Essential criteria
8. NMC registration RNMH
9. PNA Qualification
10. SSSA NMC standard assessor
11. Active PNA
12. Leadership Skills
13. Leadership experience
Desirable criteria
14. Quality improvement experience
15. Experience of nursing preceptorships
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
16. Project management/quality improvement Skills
17. Communication, presentation and Teaching Skills
18. Compassionate Leadership
Knowledge
Essential criteria
19. Knowledge and awareness of legislation and standards
Desirable criteria
20. GMMH policies and preceptorship retirements
The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications
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We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.
Sponsorship
We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click .
If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.
The Home Office introduces new changes from 22/07/2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it.
Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.