Senior Clinical Academic Nurse Researcher
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Job overview
Are you an ambitious, talented, and motivated Registered Nurse with a passion for research ready to take the next step in your career?
We are looking for a Registered Nurse to support the development of nursing research within Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC) which is part of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston (UHBW) NHS Foundation Trust. The post will be based within the Faculty of Children’s Nurse Education (FCNE), which has recently expanded their remit to the Faculty of Children’s Nurse Education and Research.The post holder will work closely with the Lead Clinical Academic Nurse Researcher on research capacity and capability building within BRHC.
BRHC is committed to building research capacity and capability for NMAHPs, strengthening existing partnerships with local Higher Education Institutions and developing sustainable research collaborations with world-class researchers.
The closing date for the post will be 18^th February 2025 at 12pm. Interviews will be face to face in Bristol and are scheduled for Tuesday 4^th March 2025] at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
Main duties of the job
Working with key stakeholders within FCNE / BRHC / UHBW and partner Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to:
- Encourage and facilitate Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional (NMAHP) research knowledge, skills and potential within BRHC to empower staff to lead, use, deliver and participate in research
- Support the implementation of the UHBW research and NMAHP specific strategy to enable research opportunities for the workforce
- Support the generation and implementation of evidence into practice to benefit patients, carers and our workforce
- Develop and build relationships and initiatives with partner HEIs to support the growth in the number and diversity of nurse leaders in research
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.
Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. 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 in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria- NMC Registered nurse – ideally Child Branch
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing or closely health related degree
- Master’s Degree or experience
- Post graduate knowledge of research techniques, analysis and use of information
- Additional related paediatric critical care specialist qualification
- Good Clinical Practice Research training
- Post graduate teaching / assessing qualification
- Management / Leadership Qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria- Recent experience at a senior level including, change management, & multidisciplinary working
- Experience of leading & managing large improvement and academic research projects/study
- Evidence of having delivered a research portfolio
- Experience of leading research projects in a complex organisation
- Experience and understanding of key nursing and MDT objectives and how research and education links to the Nursing / MDT strategy
- Extensive experience of teaching, developing and facilitating research and innovation programmes to the inter-professional team across health and social care settings
- Evidence of current clinical practice in a range of acute care settings
- Evidence of conference presenting
- Evidence of leading projects across health & social care settings /clinical practice, teaching and research
- Evidence of competitive grant capture/income generation
- Experience of developing complex training and education programmes
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria- Excellent problem-solving skills using internal and external sources of expertise when appropriate
- Sensitive to clinical and political demands
- Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change
- Evidence of ability to analyse & present complex, multi-stranded data in appropriate forms
- Ability to identify and evaluate options for education, training and research programmes in delivering the aims of BRHC and UBHW and the wider health and social care community
- Presents plans supported by reasoned argument and evidence
- Ability to sustain high workload through times of service and organisational pressure
- Ability to chair and/or participate actively in meetings, seminars and conferences
- Ability to diagnose and take remedial action where research or innovation programmes are slipping from their targets
- Business focused
- Develop and present workable solutions to complex service and research and innovation issues taking into account internal and external political environments
- Excellent organisation skills
- Performance management skills and techniques to enable accurate real-time progress
- Experience of using statistical packages and qualitative data management tools
Aptitudes
Essential criteria- Ability to lead and build successful teams
- Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
- Able to influence the direction and decisions of Nursing research services, Trust and external audiences as required including Higher Education Institutions and commissioning organisations
- Ability to present highly complex data to a variety of audiences
- Good negotiating skills
- Excellent communications skills (written/oral) to the multi-professional team at a variety of levels
- Able to undertake clinical duties as required by a registered nurse within BRHC
- Able to work flexibly across areas and different locations as required
- Comprehensive IT skills to manage & report on complex performance management information systems
- Ability to manage conflict
- Able to move and handle teaching and training equipment
- 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.
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