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Practice Development Nurse-Paediatrics

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
Are you committed to facilitating education, improving quality and standards within our Children's Services?

Would you like to work within a team that supports training and the development of our team at Ipswich Hospital?

We are looking for a Nurse with advanced clinical skills to join our team as the Practice Development Nurse.

As the Practice Development Nurse you will provide stable guidance and advice to the entire team in the development of skills around the department, whilst ensuring the statutory training is provided to staff throughout the year.

You will work within Children's Services providing a progressive learning environment for all nursing staff to develop and enhance knowledge and skills in clinical practice to improve patient safety and experience.

You will lead on, support and coordinate the development of pre and post registration nurses and healthcare assistants by coordinating educational activities and assessments of learning within the service.

  • To lead in the implementation of evidenced based practice through the development of the clinical skills of individual practitioners
  • To develop and lead on the implementation of training programmes to ensure attainment of required clinical skills for children's registered and nonregistered workforce participating in the implementation of the clinical competency framework
  • Co-ordinates and provides direct clinical support, education and mentoring to staff to develop competence in clinical practice in order to drive forward quality
  • Supports and facilitates the development of clinical practise mentors; provides supervision and support structures liaising with external providers
  • To provide best practice advise in clinical settings to support governance and influence the safety and experience of children / young people and their families

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Faye Button Job title: Matron Email address: faye.button@esneft.nhs.uk

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