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.
Do you thrive on making a difference? Are you an expert practitioner with a passion for empowering others?
As a Band 8a PDN, you'll provide ongoing support and development for all levels of nursing staff, ensuring they deliver exceptional patient care.
What you'll do:
* 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 programs and robust supervision, aligned with local and national best practice.
* Identify learning needs, develop resources, and facilitate change within the inpatient setting.
Responsibilities
* Accountable to the Head of Nursing and will work closely with the Head of Nursing to develop practice within nursing.
* Collaborate with the Quality Improvement (QI) advisor and Head of Organisational Development to ensure effective implementation of change initiatives.
* Work in conjunction 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 the 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.
Person Specification
* RMN/RNLD with current NMC registration
* Educated to masters level or relevant experience
* Evidence of continuous professional development, relevant teaching certificate 998 or equivalent
* Minimum of 2 years at band 7 appropriate to post applied for – previous experience of working in inpatient and community sectors, experience of skills training/teaching, experience of providing supervision
* Ability to participate and lead on quality improvement/audit projects – project management qualification/skills, ability to analyse audit and research data, ability to draw conclusions and action planning from data reports, ability to teach/share learning, ability to prepare, implement, facilitate and audit learning
* Be able to use computer systems (Word, Excel, Rio). Ability to use database and access and understand relevant Trust databases.
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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