Job Description

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust offers an exciting opportunity for a Practice Development Nurse (PDN) to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our inpatient mental health services.



Do you thrive on making a difference? Are you an expert practitioner with a passion for empowering others?



As a Band 8a PDN, you'll provide ongoing support and development for all levels of nursing staff, ensuring they deliver exceptional patient care.

What you'll do:

Act as a role model and expert practitioner, providing continuing education and coaching to nurses.

Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to drive the future of nursing through innovative practice development initiatives.

Deliver educational programs and robust supervision, aligned with local and national best practice.

Identify learning needs, develop resources, and facilitate change within the inpatient setting.



The post holder is accountable to the Head of Nursing and thus will work closely with the Head of Nursing to develop practice within nursing.



Collaborate with the Quality Improvement (QI) advisor and Head of Organisational Development to ensure effective implementation of change initiatives.



Work in conjunction with the national culture of care team to coordinate the programme activities over the duration of the programme.



Facilitate and sustainably embed learning and sharing within the ward, learning network, and broader community.



Supporting wards in moving away from risk stratification and promoting personalised clinical safety planning.



Highlight the use of QI methodologies and co-production with lived experience expertise as essential aspects of meaningful change.



Supervise and support the lived experience quality management partner role.



Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace.



Be responsible for the continuing development of competency based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.



Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.



Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.



Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.



We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.



Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:



We're Kind



We're Fair



We Listen



We Care



Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace.



Be responsible for the continuing development of competency based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.



Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.



Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.



Be involved in the developing of Policies, Procedures and Standard Operating procedures that will affect the Nurses in the directorate



Ensure that agreed policies are followed to provide a safe environment for patients, relatives and staff.



Ensure the effective communication between nursing colleagues, Multi- professional teams, patients, relatives/carers and provide advice and support where there are difficulties in relationships when appropriate.



Lead, facilitate and participate in research projects and clinical audit and implement any changes.



Deliver educational programmes in relation to clinical, practice and professional development using up to date methods of delivery, including e learning packages.



In conjunction with Learning and Development department assist in the development of e-learning packages in line with borough clinical priorities.