Practice Development Nurse (Childrens Community Nursing)

Do you want to make a tangible difference to people's lives, with the best of London on your doorstep?

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire. We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Are you an exceptional, motivated and experienced children’s nurse with expertise in the community or acute settings? Do you have a passion for teaching and supporting learning and development? Are you keen to develop your supervising and assessment skills within supportive teams? Then this could be the opportunity for you.

Our ambition is to make working in Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust an attractive career opportunity for clinical staff from Health Care Assistant through to Advanced Practitioner. In order to help achieve this ambition, we are looking for a Children’s Practice Development Nurse to join the CLCH Academy to promote and facilitate practice development across our Children’s Community Nursing and Special School Nursing teams, in our North West London and North Central London Division. As a PDN, you will join the CLCH Academy Team where you will be supported with your development at post graduate level in a robust career pathway.

Main duties of the job

• Promoting high standards of care through the demonstration of clinical expertise.
• Facilitating the creation of a positive learning environment in the workplace where staff development is encouraged and supported.
• Facilitating the induction, education and continuing professional development for all levels of registered and non-registered nursing staff within the Children's Community and Special School Nursing Teams.
• Working alongside staff in individual teams undertaking a key role in practice development.
• Translating Academy priorities such as changes in nursing standards, new clinical roles such as Apprenticeships into their designated service.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

• Registered Children’s Nurse.
• Working towards a Master’s degree level qualification or equivalent.
• Clinical Leadership training.
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development.
• Community Children’s Nursing qualification.
• Learning and Development Qualification.

Experience

• Experience within Children’s nursing (acute ward based, community or Special School Nursing Services).
• Experience supporting learning and development.
• Experience in taking forward clinical and service change.
• Experience of working in a changing and uncertain environment.
• Experience of delivering on development initiatives and leading change with individuals and teams.
• Experience of working with staff and stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience of using evidence to inform best practice.
• Experience of engaging with patients, the public and stakeholders.
• Experience of report writing and presentation.

Skills & Knowledge

• Knowledge of the national priorities relating to provision of complex children’s nursing services.
• Skills in articulating a vision to staff working at different levels.
• Knowledge of practice development and change management.
• Knowledge of the NHS agenda of how it impacts on service delivery.
• Ability to think strategically, develop and deliver strategies and plans.
• Ability to implement and evaluate successful change programmes.
• Leadership skills, relationship building skills and influencing skills.
• Ability to focus on key priorities and to sustain momentum to achieve desired results.
• Integrates organisational vision and values as way of working.
• Ability to inspire and build a strong team focused on achieving results.
• Aware of the equalities and diversity agenda.
• Ability to thrive in a changing environment and to focus on opportunities to generate new ideas.
• Ability to organise and utilise resources to achieve value for money.
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet competing demands and priorities.
• Ability to work in a pressure environment and keep calm in challenging situations.
• Able to work as an effective team member.

Key Attributes

• Passionate about work and services delivered.
• Self-motivated towards own professional growth and development.
• Proactive.
• Flexible to work patterns.
• Sensitive towards needs of others.
• Committed to developing people.
• Committed to improving quality.
• Embraces change and seeks opportunities to find new solutions to problems.
• Honesty and integrity.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification. Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job. Interview arrangements will be communicated via email, so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH, we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks: Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN), Race Equality Network, Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff. Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

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.