Practice Educators provide support and clinical education to staff and student learners to improve their professional practice. They facilitate practice education alongside clinical and academic colleagues, ensuring that learners gain from the learning experiences available during their placements. This role involves role modelling, supervising, supporting and teaching, forming a critical element in bridging the gap between theory and practice.
In addition to these responsibilities, Practice Educators are involved in reviewing and aligning the provision of practice education to wards, supporting general practice development and assessment across wards, and ensuring high-quality placements. They also play a key role in developing and implementing education audits to ensure apprenticeship standards are met.
Qualifications
Degree in Nursing
Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
A Practice Development Nurse is responsible for leading, delivering and continually developing educational programmes to support the nursing workforce and the organisation. PDNs work within the Workforce Development, Education and Training Team to deliver leadership and team-working development, achieving annual objectives. They collaborate with clinical and academic colleagues to facilitate practice education, ensuring that learners gain valuable experiences during their placements. This role also involves role modelling, supervising, supporting and teaching, helping to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Additionally, PDNs are involved in reviewing and aligning the provision of practice education to wards, supporting general practice development and assessment across wards, and ensuring high-quality placements. They play a key role in developing and implementing education audits to ensure apprenticeship standards are met.
Qualifications
Degree in Nursing
Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
The Lead for Education is responsible for overseeing the education and training programmes within the organisation. They ensure that services within their portfolio are delivered within budget and meet the Trust’s requirements. This includes providing training within their skill set and supporting the delivery of training programmes in areas such as resuscitation, clinical skills and simulation.
Additionally, the Lead for Education supports the governance function of the education service and the Trust Education Group. They chair relevant groups and lead educational programmes, developing plans for Trust-wide rollout. They also liaise with academic institutions to ensure that educational programmes meet curricula requirements and promote safe practice.
Qualifications
Degree in Nursing
Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
There are many different avenues for a career in research nursing at the Trust. Nurses can work as research delivery nurses within the team, supporting the recruitment and onboarding of patients to research studies that are currently active. Within this pathway, there is career progression from Band 5 to Band 8a, with access to further training such as GCP training, NIHR e-learning modules and a specific competency framework.
There are also opportunities to become a clinical academic and undertake your own research, underpinned by knowledge and skills gained through a Master’s in Clinical Research, as well as opportunities to undertake doctoral-level study.
Governance Nursing
Clinical governance is the system by which we continuously improve the quality of our services and safeguard high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.
Our clinical governance team supports audit and monitoring, quality and safety performance, patient safety, debriefing and learning from practice, all underpinned by the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).
There are opportunities to develop in this field with patient safety-specific postgraduate modules to enable continual learning and development of the wider team.
Recruitment and Retention
Specific nursing roles in recruitment and retention are valuable in developing a stable and consistent workforce across the organisation. The Trust has a variety of roles in this field, including pastoral support roles, overseas recruitment roles and safe staffing roles.
Opportunities within this field include travelling to recruit staff, as well as developing knowledge and skills around roster management and safe staffing.
Innovation and Improvement
At the organisation, we have a strong innovation and improvement vision to continually drive up standards and quality of care. Within this specialty, there are fellowship opportunities for secondments, as well as quality improvement management roles to support teams across the organisation to innovate and develop.
Development is available in this specialty through improvement qualifications such as LEAN, QSIR and AGILE. There is also access to Master’s-level education and the development of horizon scanning skills.
This specialty also enables staff members to use their training skills to support wider workforce development and to run local improvement initiatives.
Digital Nursing
Digital nursing careers are developing across the Trust as we continue to become more digitally mature. Digital nursing begins at the Digital Matron level and can progress to the Chief Nursing Information Officer role. Nurses undertaking these roles support technology development, optimisation of current systems and engagement across the nursing, midwifery and AHP teams. Key roles in this specialty include training and education to support frontline team members in optimising digital workflows to enhance patient care. The roles are critical in understanding and recognising the challenges of end-user workflows, and in translating digital processes into clinical terminology and practice.
Digital nurses are Cerner-proficient and are key enablers of change to the electronic patient record. Stakeholder engagement is a key responsibility.
Development within this specialty includes leadership development, influencing skills, digital and technology support and learning from external, non-NHS technology providers.
