Education, Practice Development & Innovation Lead Nurse in Pontyclun

As an expert within the field of education, practice development and innovation, the postholder will possess highly developed specialist knowledge. Working with a significant level of autonomy, the post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development and implementation of a wide range of clinical and professional education and development interventions to sustain and enhance practice education across the Welsh Blood Service.

Working as a core member of the Clinical Service Team, the post holder will ensure the development and delivery of complex, robust, and evidence-based clinical donor care, educational and practice development interventions and initiatives, ensuring both clinical regulatory and professional requirements are met to enable provision of optimal care and experience to our donors and patients.

In addition to the core practice development, innovation and education function, the post holder will be required to support the wider clinical service donor care function to provide service resilience, and will provide operational leadership for several key programmes across the Welsh Blood Service including:

• Infection Prevention and Control
• Safeguarding and Public Protection
• Clinical lead for staff vaccination programmes

Main duties of the job:

• Utilise expert teaching and presentation skills (both written and spoken) to successfully provide relevant educational presentations to a variety of staff groups demonstrating the ability to adjust content and language used in line with audience.
• Act as a clinical specialist for donor care, clinical education, practice development and innovation, ensuring that clinical service practice standards meet appropriate regulatory and professional requirements e.g. the Medicines and Health Care products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Collaborate with Consultant in Donor Care, Head of Nursing and Trainee Advanced Practitioner in Donor Care to identify, develop, plan and evaluate a broad range of education and training initiatives in line with organisational strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the promotion, development, delivery and evaluation of clinical education, practice development and innovation initiatives to support the continual improvement of services to sustain and enhance practice education provision across the WBS.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us:

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services. Formed in 1994, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to provide the key principles of prudent healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors. At Velindre University NHS Trust we aim to foster a culture of discovery, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We will achieve this by embedding research and innovation into everything we do, to deliver meaningful, measurable impact for our patients and communities. If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

Job responsibilities:

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click 'Apply now' to view in Trac. This is a fixed term/secondment until 30.06/2026 to cover a secondment. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.

Person Specification:

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Experienced Clinical Leader
• Educated to Master's Degree level or equivalent experience
• Evidence of post registration education with a commitment to ongoing continuous learning and application in practice.
• Relevant teaching and assessing qualification e.g. PGCE
• Experience in Service development and innovation projects
• Experience in practice development, clinical audit, clinical governance, service improvement and risk assessment
• Working towards an accredited qualification in leadership
• Recognised Project Management Qualification
• Fluent in written and spoken Welsh Language
• Accredited qualification in leadership
• Experience in leading Service improvement and Innovation projects
• Competent in blood and blood component collection

• Previous experience within a Nursing education, service improvement and practice development role.
• Extensive demonstrable experience in developing education and training programmes.
• Demonstrable experience of developing educational and practice development programmes and resources.
• Experience of quality and clinical audit processes.
• Experience in statistical analysis and their application to improve practice.
• Experience of working independently & using own initiative
• Experience in influencing and motivating people.
• Computer literate in routine keyboard skills and software packages.
• Post registration experience of leading/managing a multi-disciplinary team.
• Clinical knowledge, skill and expertise in blood and component donation and post donation care.

• Demonstrable ability to work methodically and accurately often with competing demands
• Passion for education, practice development and innovation to improve clinical practice.
• Keen drive and want to improve clinical practice
• Effective organisational and negotiation skills
• Demonstrates the ability to promote and foster good working relationships
• Evidence of ability to plan and organise own workload and to work independently.
• Ability to develop staff/commitment to the development of others
• Highly developed effective interpersonal negotiation and communication skills
• Emotional resilience to respond positively in challenging circumstances.
• Natural problem solver with the ability to adapt quickly to sudden changes.
• Proactive confident approach and excellent interpersonal skills
• Analytical skills to interpret complex data

• Observe discretion and confidentiality at all times.
• Flexible approach to the needs of the service.
• Welsh Language (Level 1)

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.