Job Introduction
Unlock Potential as a Practice Development Nurse: Join Our Dynamic Inpatient unit Team!
Are you an accomplished and dedicated Nurse, prepared to unleash your full potential? Seize the opportunity to excel as a Practice Development Nurse (PDN) within the realm of inpatient rehabilitation. Embark on an exciting journey within the three in-patient wards across Community Hospital sites located in Bath and Paulton.
Why choose us? Step into the spotlight as an integral member of our senior nursing team, reporting to the Matron for Inpatients and Minor Injuries. Become a part of a team who are keen to take the development of colleagues forward to improve rehabilitation and nursing outcomes for service users and their families. Our philosophy rests on the pursuit of excellence in patient care, as we strive to enhance standards and outcomes.
Hours are usually 7am – 7pm Monday to Friday with 1 in 4 weekends expected with options for flexibility and supporting staff across the 24/7 nursing week. Working as part of the clinical teams with some dedicated supervisory time to work alongside.
Main Responsibility
You will be responsible for enhancing clinical development across both St Martin’s Hospital in Bath and Paulton Hospital. You will actively engage in hands-on, practical clinical leadership, guiding newly appointed staff, students, and apprentices. Your role involves cultivating clinical competences, spearheading dynamic improvement, and ensuring a continuum of enhancement.
- Clinical Excellence: Showcase your clinical expertise by advocating for evidence-based practices that make a difference. You will demonstrate proficiency, from impeccable moving and handling techniques to objective identification of patients' needs. Your expertise will include training in medical devices such as PEG/NG tubes and syringe drivers.
- Mentorship and Development: Facilitate the growth of your colleagues by shaping their clinical competencies. Undertake the role of guiding continuous professional development and supporting revalidation journeys. Navigate the realm of live learning needs analysis and contribute to the Professional Development Forum.
- Champion of Learning: Radiate positivity as a visible presence within the team! Cultivate a fertile learning environment for both students and peers alike. Elevate training standards to unprecedented heights, seamlessly blending academia with practical application.
- Innovator of Progress: Take the lead in driving transformative change, eradicating suboptimal practices with a “Just Culture” mindset. Embrace the power of reflection, stimulate learning and improvement through the lens of SBAR completion and thematic reviews.
The Ideal Candidate
Your Background: Are you a passionate Nurse educator, registered with the NMC and enriched by experience within the dynamic healthcare arena? Whether you've honed your skills in the bustling corridors of an acute trust or the nurturing environment of a community setting, your journey has uniquely prepared you for this pivotal role.
If you are an enthusiastic Nurse possessing a passion for improving training and clinical competence, then we would love to hear from you!
Together, we will enhance an environment of compassion, competence, and care. Whether you are a Band 5 ready to assist others in honing their skills or a seasoned Band 6 seeking a steadfast base and surrounding team, this is the role for you!
Package Description
As PDN you’ll be part of our valued team at our BaNES community hospitals.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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