Lead Nurse for Education

Employer King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Kings College Hospital

Town London

Salary £70,387 – £80,465 per annum inc HCA’s

Salary period Yearly

Closing 09/03/2025 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Job overview

We are currently looking for a dynamic, motivated senior education lead to ensure the smooth running, progress and evolution of the Kings Academy. The King’s Academy is a new education facility at Hinton road near Kings College hospital. This is an exciting role for a senior nurse or midwife, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing, developing, and expanding an offering of education courses and activity with the clinical specialists.
The post holder will be required to practice at an advanced level, capable of delivering all aspects of education including design, set-up, quality assurance, management, financial management (eg CPD) and recruitment/delivery. The post holder will require extensive experience leading trust education or practice development and working with HEI’s and education partners as a lecturer practitioner.
Applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply for this role – if you have the experience, skills and aptitude to lead our Academy at King’s we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the Lead Nurse/Midwife for Education & the King’s Academy. This role will be responsible for the maintenance and development of high-quality education for nursing, midwifery and AHP staff ensuring all regulatory standards are met.
The post holder will be an experienced, motivated individual with considerable experience in education at a senior level in a large, complex healthcare organisation and/or a higher educational institution. The post holder will provide expert advice and guidance to the Trust on nursing, midwifery and AHP education and is responsible for developing and maintaining close working relationships with external stakeholders and partners.
The post holder must be able to demonstrate significant experience in managing non-medical education both pre and post registration. This includes experience of developing training programmes, teaching, managing budgets, income generation and expenditure for the academy while supporting with other finance streams.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 11,500 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities
Education and Training

• Ensure the effective delivery of the NHS Education Contract for CPD with NHSEI for nursing and midwifery.
• Meet required education regulatory, compliance and Trust standards.
• Responsible for the provision, delivery, evaluation and quality assurance of a portfolio of high-quality education and training, including the clinical non-registered workforce.
• Provide expert educational delivery and professional knowledge, of complex educational funding and programmes/pathways of care.
• Work closely with the Chief Nurse and Deputy Chief Nurse on planned changes to nursing, midwifery and AHP education including new roles, training required, funding arrangements, regulatory requirements and the implications for service delivery, including recruitment and retention of the workforce.

Strategy and Planning
• To be the Trust named Lead for King’s Academy working closely with the Deputy Chief Nurse, ADoN for Resus, Simulation & Armed Forces and external partners.
• To analyse and interpret highly complex information and demonstrate a high level of attention to detail by providing comprehensive reports for the Board of Directors and sub committees, Divisions and Corporate Teams that give clear information and guidance, and ensure adequate probity of the Trust in relation to Education.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

• Masters in Clinical/Education
• Extensive recent clinical experience with active NMC registration
• Project management qualification/PRINCE2 Foundation and/or Practitioner

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience managing pre and post registration N&M Education
• Substantial experience lecturing and teaching in HEI’s
• Experience of development of standards, policies, procedures and audit
• Considerable understanding and experience of managing a large complex service and/or project: including evidence of solving a range of complex operational and strategic problems
• Substantial specialist experience in the NHS at a senior level in non-medical education

Skills and Competencies

• Able to produce reports in statistical and graphical format and write detailed and accurate reports
• Ability to present complex information to a range of professional groups, including clinicians and senior managers
• Confident leadership / ability to inspire confidence in teams and develop individuals
• Commitment to education, retention of staff and patient safety
• Ability to work clinically within the nursing establishment to support patient care/safety and maintain clinical credibility

IMPORTANT

• Check your email account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you
• If you delete the job from any of your accounts, you may be prevented from accessing further communications
• To enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances, please contact the named person on this advert
• Please provide email addresses for referees where possible
• Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy
• All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
• Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received. You are advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Annual Reports and Other Corporate Publications

King’s College Hospital is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King’s College London, and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Estelle Fivash

Job title Associate Director of Nursing for Education

Email address

Telephone number 07816088656

#J-18808-Ljbffr