Co-Lead Nurse Faculty of Education and Research

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Job overview

The role also holds close links to the BRHC Clinical Academic Lead, ensuring the links to education and research capability are visible. The aim is to ensure a high standard of educational programmes are developed to flexibly meet clinical service needs.

The role is expected to consider CYP nursing education for the South West region as a tertiary centre, supporting our referring hospitals to ensure consistency and quality of care of the child in hospital, and where appropriate, contribute and collaborate with BCYP national nursing education projects

Main duties of the job

The main duties include leading/managing the team who teach:

• preparation for practice to pre-registrant apprentices
• clinical skills development across a range of roles and proficiencies
• Qualification in Specialty: paediatric critical care (Levels 1,2 & 3), cardiology & cardiac surgery, neurosciences, nephro-urology, haematology/ oncology and general surgery. This includes maintaining accreditation with the Paediatric Critical Care Society and ensuring courses meet national standards/frameworks
• learner-centric teaching/learning methods to ward-based educators
• working with the Clinical Academic Lead to build capability in nursing-led research

The role includes leadership across BRHC to raise the profile of education in nursing and its links to workforce development, recruitment and retention. The role works within the Women and Children's Division of a large Trust and expected to collaborate with other education teams across UHBW and represent CYP nursing in education discussions at Trust-wide level

The post also has budgetary responsibilities

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role is a co-lead post, working alongside the existing Lead Nurse who is partially retiring.

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Knowledge

• Comprehensive experience in teaching practice
• Extensive experience in clinical practice, preferably in acute paediatric care
• Extensive understanding of the roles and educational needs of the BCYP workforce
• Experience in developing new educational programmes and roles
• Extensive team and change management experience
• Experience in strategic organisation and development
• Knowledge of current issues within nurse education and the ability to relate these to education with BRHC
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Division and Trust wide nursing agenda

• Experience of managing teams who work from home
• Knowledge of current changes in apprenticeship education
• Experience in research and auditing
• Experience in budgetary management

Qualifications

• Registrant with the NMC within child field and/or extensive practice in BCYP nursing
• Evidence of post-graduate level education or experiential equivalent (Level 7)
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Evidence of post basic education in Critical Care or another speciality and application to expert level
• Evidence of leadership development E

• Evidence of teaching for APLS or EPLS courses

Skills

• Excellent report writing skills
• Sensitive to clinical and political demands
• Computer literate / IT skills
• Ability to work independently without supervision
• Ability to use a variety of IT software packages
• Ability to chair and/or participate actively in meetings, seminars and conferences
• Ability to identify and evaluate options for education, training and support for research programmes in delivering the aims of BRHC and UBHW and the wider health and social care community
• Ability to manage teams with diverse foci and facilitate/ performance manage skills which enable progress

• Ability to use Learning Management Systems

Aptitudes

• Collaborative and inclusive approach to work and leadership
• Excellent paediatric clinical skills
• Excellent problem-solving activities
• Assertive, autonomous and proactive
• Good work ethic
• Excellent role model
• Ability to use initiative, lead and manage change
• Ability to manage when under both individual and / or work pressures
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written communication skills
• Strong advocate for the Nursing profession

• Flexible approach to work schedules

• As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
• The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
• UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
• To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

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