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Practice Development Nurse

Employer
Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Leeds
Salary
£40,057 to £45,839 a year per annum
Closing date
2 Jul 2022

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Profession
Nurse
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
This is an exciting opportunity for senior nurses with clinical and leadership experience to be a Practice Development Lead. The post holder will need experience and confidence in driving innovation and excellence in older people's mental health and dementia practice. They will need to work closely with community clinical teams within older people's services and maintain good working relationships with teams.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work alongside service managers, other Practice Development Leads and key clinical stakeholders to support clinical teams through effective partnership working to meet the needs of older people and their carers. They will support and facilitate clinical teams to drive quality standards aligned to profession specific and clinical priority areas that are identified within clinical governance forums. They will need to work flexibly and follow the principles of agile working to continuously network and engage with clinical teams and partner organisations; with the overall aim of improving older people's experiences and outcomes, particularly recovery and wellbeing

About us

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health. We perform well againstlocal and national targetsand inour most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.

Job description Job responsibilities

The post holder will need to demonstrate nursing expertise and knowledge and promote and value the nursing workforce, contributing to role development in the context of continued organisational change. They will need to be positive and enthusiastic and be capable of promoting evidence-based practice, coordinating, and facilitating service improvement projects and ensuring nursing professional development. The post holder will need to have high level organisation, communication, and analysis skills. They will need to be comfortable with managing and prioritising competing demands. The post holder will need to be aware of both local and national policies and agendas around community and inpatient mental health for older people and be able to embrace service change and developments.

If you are interested in applying for this role, an informal discussion is highly recommended. Please get in touch with

Lou Bergin (Clinical Lead for OPS) via louise.bergin@nhs.net or Eve Townsley (Head of Operations, OPS) via eve.townsley@nhs.net to discuss the Older Peoples Service priorities

Alex Irvine (Nurse Consultant and AC in Training) via alex.irvine@nhs.net or Carla Rogers (OPS Inpatient Practice Development Lead Nurse) via carla.rogers2@nhs.net to discuss the Nurse Practice Development elements of this role.

Interviews will take place on 18th July and a short presentation will be required as part of the interview.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential
  • Nurse with significant clinical experience in community and / or inpatient services.
Experience Essential
  • Demonstrates extensive experience and knowledge of mental health nursing.
  • Has experience in a senior role (Band 6 or above) for at least two years. Evidence of contributing to project work and ability to think strategically.
Knowledge Essential
  • Demonstrates an enthusiasm to support the emergence of new roles as well as support the nursing specific practice agenda. Demonstrates experience and knowledge related to older people's mental health.
Skills Essential
  • Demonstrates the ability to communicate effectively with others as a facilitator of positive change and learning & can develop implementation plans with teams.


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