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Deputy Development Nurse for Student Experience

Job details
Posting date: 11 February 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 13 March 2025
Location: Surbiton, KT6 7QU
Company: South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 7002446/294-CORP-7002446-FZ

Summary

A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.


An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Nursing Development Team (NDT) for the post of DeputyDevelopment Nurse (Student Experience). This is a great opportunity for a registered nurse who has an interest and experience in management, teaching and education of nursing students and who would like to enhance and develop their career.

The DeputyDevelopment Nurse (Student Experience) is responsible for ensuring that Pre-registration Nursing and Apprentice Nursing Associate students experience high quality learning opportunities when they complete their clinical placements within the Trust. In collaboration with the Development Nurse Manager, Placement Coordinator and wider NDT colleagues, the post holder will be responsible for managing Student Experience portfolio and providing hands on support to all learners, HEIs, supervisors, assessors and other internal stakeholders.

· To support Senior Development Nurse and Development Nurse Manager, providing support for the day-to-day management of the team, when needed

· To support with and maintain high quality clinical placements for learners completing Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) approved programmes within SWLStG Trust.

· To promote safe and effective learning environments to enable learner success.

· Supporting Practice Assessors and supervisors of student nurses in maintaining clinical placement quality and ensuring placement audits are up to date and registered with all HEIs.

· Implementation of strategies to meet the standards set by the NMC, Health Education England and Local Education Boards. This includes Practice Assessor update training, working with link lecturers and supporting student nurses.

· Maintain digital systems for disseminating information to all, practice assessors and clinical managers.

· Offer guidance to managers on NMC standards in nurses’ education, maximising the use of mentors, link lecturers, development programmes and the provision of practice opportunities across the Trust.

· They will be a good team worker and have the ability to motivate junior staff, Practice Assessors and student nurses as well as acting as a positive role model for the student nurses and their Practice Assessors and supervisors.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Tolworth Hospital, Surbiton

To create the very best environment to care for our patients, this site’s layout will be transformed in 2026 to add a number of wards to the existing three. Tolworth has a canteen and is near shops, the A3, Tolworth station, and is a bus ride from Surbiton station, with fast connections to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.
• To ensure high quality provision of practice learning opportunities for learners across the Trust who are undertaking programmes leading to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

· To work collaboratively with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and other practitioners across the sector, to monitor practice placements and ensure that they are fully compliant with audit requirements.

· In partnership with key stakeholders and Placement Coordinator, to develop and maintain clinical practice placement opportunities for learners undertaking Pre-registration Nursing and Nursing Associate courses within the Trust and to ensure that clinical placement areas meet the requirements outlined within the Standards for Pre-registration Nursing Education (NMC, 2010).

· In partnership with key stakeholders, to ensure that all learners are provided with practice learning opportunities that enable them to meet theNMC standards of proficiency and programme outcomes, as indicated withinStandards for Pre-registration Nursing Programmes(NMC, 2018/2023).

· Monitor systems for supporting and disseminating information to Practice Supervisors, Practice Assessors and clinical managers across the Trust.

· In collaboration with other Student Experience team members, to lead and support the implementation of the NMC’s Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (SSSA) (NMC, 2019/2023).

· To work with placement areas and HEIs to ensure that all annual clinical placements audits are up to date and to establish and maintain systems for monitoring, reviewing and reporting on the quality of the practice learning environments.

· To provide support and guidance for Practice and Academic Assessors, Practice Supervisors and staff who support and assess students and learners in clinical practice.

· To work collaboratively with and support the wider Student Experience colleagues and other members of the Nursing Development Team (NDT).

· Maintain own clinical competence and fitness for practice by working a minimum of two days per month within clinical teams across the Trust.

· Act as a credible role model.


This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Feb 2025