Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust offers an exciting opportunity for a Practice Development Nurse (PDN) to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our inpatient mental health services.
As a Band 8a PDN, you’ll provide ongoing support and development for all levels of nursing staff, ensuring they deliver exceptional patient care.
Responsibilities
* Act as a role model and expert practitioner, providing continuing education and coaching to nurses.
* Collaborate with multi‑disciplinary teams to drive the future of nursing through innovative practice development initiatives.
* Deliver educational programmes and robust supervision, aligned with local and national best practice.
* Identify learning needs, develop resources, and facilitate change within the inpatient setting.
* Work closely with the Head of Nursing to develop practice within nursing and ensure accountability.
* Collaborate with the Quality Improvement advisor and Head of Organisational Development to ensure effective implementation of change initiatives.
* Work with the national culture of care team to coordinate programme activities over the duration of the programme.
* Facilitate and sustainably embed learning and sharing within the ward, learning network, and broader community.
* Support wards in moving away from risk stratification and promoting personalised clinical safety planning.
* Highlight the use of QI methodologies and co‑production with lived experience expertise as essential aspects of meaningful change.
* Supervise and support the lived experience quality management partner role.
* Support staff and nursing teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace.
* Be responsible for the continuing development of competency‑based frameworks for nurses within the borough.
* Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with multi‑disciplinary teams.
* Provide staff teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.
This advert closes on Thursday 14 May 2026.
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