Practice Development Nurse: Sponsorship Available

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Supporting community nursing practitioners across Bedfordshire to enhance their clinical performance and confidence.

Work clinically with community nursing teams/clinicians to ensure service competencies are completed.

Act as a positive role model – maintaining clinical competence and credibility to enable provision of both professional and clinical supervision, skill development and support.

To take the lead on the development of clinical practice supporting the operational manager and Team Leaders

Drive the quality agenda and ensure that the Quality strategy underpins all operational services

To support the community nursing and wider community teams participating in out of hours on call rota where appropriate.

Main duties of the job

To support staff to identify learning needs and work in partnership with Team leaders to ensure all essential training required to perform the post is undertaken

To support senior managers and the Team Leaders to ensure locality services meet CQC requirements with particular regard to records management, ensuring the team maintain a high standard of both manual and computerised documentation.

Support the management of risks within the locality, taking appropriate mitigating action and ensuring the reporting of incidents in accordance with the policy.

To contribute to the peer review and assurance process across the localities in partnership with Team Leaders

To support staff to identify learning needs and work in partnership with Team leaders to ensure all essential training required to perform the post is undertaken

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Support the management of risks within the locality, taking appropriate mitigating action and ensuring the reporting of incidents in accordance with the policy.

To provide professional support and leadership to the teams in the absence of the Team Leader

  • To deliver training sessions and support the skills and Drills induction programme

Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • Registered General Nurse
  • Educated to Masters level or equivalent
  • Post-registration qualification in District Nursing
  • Demonstrable evidence of significant post-registration nursing experience, including in a community setting

Desirable

  • Independent Prescriber

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrate evidence-based practice and up-to-date clinical skills
  • Experience of clinical leadership
  • Extensive experience of complex assessment of health and social needs
  • Ability to oversee multiple caseloads and monitor quality

Desirable

  • Relevant teaching/mentoring qualification and evidence of teaching skills

Knowledge

Desirable

  • Evidence of and commitment to multi-professional working
  • Demonstrate working within a multi-agency environment.
  • Have a comprehensive understanding of partnership working.
  • Demonstrate application of clinical governance
  • Excellent understanding of community health and social care principles and practice
  • Understanding of National and Local issues that impact on the population of Bedfordshire.

other

Essential

  • Willing to work to meet the needs of the service (to include evenings, weekends and bank holidays).
  • Ability to travel throughout Bedfordshire and access to a car for work purposes

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

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