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Job summary

Main area
Practice development
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
326-6824878-AW
Employer
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
East Surrey Hospital
Town
Redhill
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus high cost allowance
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/01/2025 23:59
Interview date
16/01/2025

Employer heading

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Practice Development Lead for Clinical Skills

NHS AfC: Band 7

We want to give you the best possible experience in the next stage of your career.

We always strive to be the best place to work and to be cared for.

  • We’ve been named the 2021 Acute NHS Trust of the Year, in the annual Health Service (HSJ) Journal Awards for our clear ambition and vision and a significant improvement journey over a number of years’.Ìý
  • The Trust is 6th highest rated Trust in the South East and was still in the top 25% nationally for recommended places to work.Ìý
  • We’re rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission and when asked whether the care of patients is the organisation’s top priority our staff rank us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts.
  • We pride ourselves on supporting you to thrive in your existing role and to develop your career with us. So with us you’ll get loads of benefits, great training and development opportunities, flexibility and a real community feel.

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Benefits to working with us

  • Great training and education, including preceptorship and CPD (up to £1,000 individual CPD funding available for nurses, midwives and AHPs)
  • Our location: you can access beautiful countryside, historic towns and villages and bustling city life all nearby. With good schools, nature reserves and cultural attractions on our doorstep, and both London and Brighton easily accessible too, there’s something for everyone nearby.
  • At least 35 days leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
  • NHS pension scheme
  • A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.
  • On-site nursery
  • On-site Boots and WHSmith shops
  • An Amazon locker and an InPost locker on site
  • Restaurant facilities
  • Full educational library services
  • Excellent rail and bus links
  • The local bus operator offer all new staff one month’s free travel to East Surrey Hospital when they first join (please visit the Metrobus website for details and terms and conditions)
  • Lockable storage for cycles.

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About us

  • We’re a major local employer, with a diverse workforce of c5,000 providing healthcare services to a growing population of around 535,000.
  • We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill.
  • We offer a full range of acute and complex services at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, where we are the nearest trauma unit to Gatwick Airport.
  • We provide a range of outpatient, diagnostic and less complex planned services at The Earlswood Centre, Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey, and at Crawley and Horsham Hospitals in West Sussex.

The Trust is committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of benefits including, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, Ìýfacilities and services to support staff well being.

Job overview

The Practice Development lead for clinical skillsÌý role is central to ensuring nursing staff can access clinical support and core skills trainig, enabling delivery of high quality evidence based care accross the Trust and specifically supports the trust in providing safe quality care throughout.Ìý

Working in Partership with the Lead for retention and practice development, the post holder will develop and embed evidence based clinical nursing practice across the trust through implementation and facilitation of clinically based education, training and skills development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will leadÌý to develop and deliver high quality training programmes, which is in the trust requirements.Ìý The post holder will use different data sources to identify incident trends, using data to inform updates to the training programme.Ìý

The Post holder will undertake Manual handling Training to ensure continuity of delivery within the Practice development service.Ìý

The Core programmes of training will include venepuncture and cannulation and intravenous accessa dn IV administration.Ìý ÌýThe post holder will lead the clinical skills training team to ensure our nursing staff have access to clinical skills training.Ìý

There is an expectation that the post holder will also support our other Practice Development department programmes at peak times.Ìý

This post complements ward based/specific induction and education and will support and facilitate core practice based education to all sectors of the nursing workforce by delivering ward and clinical training and assessing clinical competency of core skills, role modeling best practice e.g manual handling in conjunction with ward staff either in the in classrom setting or clinical areas.

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.Ìý

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:Ìý
• Ìý ÌýWinners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
• Ìý ÌýNational Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
• Ìý ÌýWe are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.Ìý

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Person specification

Professional Qualification

Essential criteria
  • • 1st level Registered Nurse (degree or equivalent)
  • Post Graduate Certifcate of Education (PGCE) (or willing to work towards) MSc in education/nursing speciality or able to demonstrate ability to work at masters level
  • Mentorship
  • Post registration acute Band 6 experience
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical Skills and experience
  • Experience of teaching, educating and supporting learners
  • Evidence of trust values

Employer certification / accreditation badges

HSJ Acute or Specialist Trust of the year

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Eleanor Forster
Job title
Lead Nurse for Retention & Practice Development
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01737768511
Additional information

01737768511 ext 4235