The post holder will be responsible for promoting high standards of care through the demonstration of clinical expertise and creating a clinical environment that encourage learning and professional and practice development working within our services.

The post holder will also, as a part of a team, facilitate the induction, clinical mandatory updates and continuing professional development for nursing staff and AHP's working across Sutton Health and Care.

In addition the post holder will liaise with the relevant education providers to ensure that communication between education and practice is maintained.

The post holder must have access to transport to travel to multiple bases across Sutton and to visit people in their own homes

This is a clinical post and the post holder will be expected to perform clinical duties in the home environment

Main duties of the job

To facilitate learning opportunities in clinical practice for post registration nurses, professional visitors and pre-registration nursing students and AHP Students. This will include:

• Deliver designated clinical sessions for Mandatory Training / Induction programme for Nurses
• Contribute to the development programme for Nurses New to the Community
• Support the Clinical Skills and IV Therapy Competency programme
• Collaborate with lecturer practitioners and other clinical experts to deliver a Portfolio of education in practice through clinical skills workshops e.g. Holistic Assessment
• Participate in the review of the Induction and Mandatory Clinical Education Programme
• Be responsive to needs in clinical practice highlighted by complaints or incidents or National Guidance designing and delivering clinical learning programmes and /or create clinical learning opportunities as required for a safe effective patient responsive service.

• Provide excellence in the services that are provided, ensuring improved quality of life for the community nursing caseload and local population
• Provide support, supervision and mentorship to community nursing teams based within a specific area to meet the need of the community nursing caseload and local population
• Provide support to AHP Services working within Sutton Health & Care Community Services contract.

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.

Job description

Job responsibilities

see attached Job Description

To facilitate learning opportunities in clinical practice for post registration nurses, professional visitors and pre-registration nursing students and AHP Students. This will include:

• Deliver designated clinical sessions for Mandatory Training / Induction programme for Nurses
• Contribute to the development programme for Nurses New to the Community
• Support the Clinical Skills and IV Therapy Competency programme
• Collaborate with lecturer practitioners and other clinical experts to deliver a Portfolio of education in practice through clinical skills workshops e.g. Holistic Assessment
• Participate in the review of the Induction and Mandatory Clinical Education Programme
• Be responsive to needs in clinical practice highlighted by complaints or incidents or National Guidance designing and delivering clinical learning programmes and /or create clinical learning opportunities as required for a safe effective patient responsive service.

• Provide excellence in the services that are provided, ensuring improved quality of life for the community nursing caseload and local population
• Provide support, supervision and mentorship to community nursing teams based within a specific area to meet the need of the community nursing caseload and local population
• Provide support to AHP Services working within Sutton Health & Care Community Services contract.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Post registration - minimum 3yrs
• Mentorship - at degree level

Desirable

• Specialist Practitioner Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Recent clinical experience in a Community setting
• Experience of mentoring, supervising and teaching

Skills

Essential

• evidence of advanced knowledge of clinical community practice
• evidence of leading change or delivering teaching to others

Desirable

• I.T skills

Employer details

Employer name

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Green Wrythe Lane Clinic

Carshalton/London Borough of Sutton

SM5 1JF

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343-5815101-SS-Y