Practice Development Nurse
| Posting date: | 21 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £45,115 to £52,801 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 September 2025 |
| Location: | Arundel, PO19 1RQ |
| Company: | St Barnabas Hospices |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 298 |
Summary
About the role
The primary focus of this role is to support the growth of competence and confidence in clinical knowledge and skills in practice across the clinical teams based at Chestnut Tree House, to ensure patient safety and effective clinical risk management. This is achieved by facilitating the organisational competency framework, encouraging active learning and the transference of skills from underpinning theory to practice.
The post holder will work under the leadership of the Lecturer Practitioner/Head of Education role modelling evidence based best practice and competence in clinical skills across the clinical teams, encouraging individual enquiry and advocating a personal responsibility for learning. The post will support and develop staff to provide high quality, holistic, patient centered and compassionate care which meets the complex clinical needs of children and young people requiring special palliative care interventions and end of life care.
Essential criteria
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of proficiency and a competency framework for care staff, registered and non-registered, including facilitation of continuing professional development days and the delivery and evaluation of associated training, in accordance with organisationally defined and derived outcomes
- Establish and embed education, learning and research as priorities alongside clinical care and as essential components of quality care provision across all settings, promoting a culture of learning, enquiry, research and innovation across Chestnut Tree House
- Work with team leaders and senior registered nurses to ensure robust orientation for new members of staff and students by maintaining, evaluating and continuing to develop the preceptorship and induction programmes
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of Child and Adult Safeguarding procedures and endeavour at all times to uphold the rights of children and young people
- Contribute to generic and child specific health and safety risk assessments as appropriate.
- Maintain and develop knowledge and awareness of the local, national and international external environment to ensure that Chestnut Tree House Children’s Hospice is proactively responding to opportunities and challenges relevant to education, learning and research
About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.
Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.
We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.
Benefits
- Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
- Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- On-site education support and study leave opportunities
- Option to access Health Shield and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
- Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
- Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in Service
Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.