Senior Nurse/Peer Coach–Community Practice & Professional Development

Job summary

This is a fixed term / secondment vacancy until 30 / 09 / 24

If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

Are you a senior nurse with clinical leadership experience? Are you passionate about improving the quality of care and supporting development of our workforce?

Are you looking for a new challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity available to work alongside our Clinical Lead Nurses and Professional and Practice Development Nurses, supporting the improvement of quality and implementation of change, facilitating learning and development, and ensuring staff are supported via coaching and supervision.

This position will involve working across the three counties with base to be dependant on location of successful candidate.

This is a fixed term contract to cover a secondment and approval for secondment will need to be agreed prior to interview.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead on empowering the Community Clinical Lead Nurses and District Nurse Team leaders to deliver a well-defined, well managed and responsive nursing care in the community.

They will :

Provide senior coaching and mentoring support to Community Clinical Lead Nurses and District Nurse Team leaders across the development of District Nurse (DN) team leaders within Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB), utilising tools such as advocacy, connecting to resources, experiential sharing, relationship building, group facilitation and skill building / mentoring / goal setting.

Identify opportunity for changes in practice which meet the needs of the local population and lead on opportunities for the team members to develop and excel as part of a DN team and as part of the wider multi professional team within a neighbourhood.

Provide restorative supervision based on the A-Equip model to Community Practice and Professional Development Nurses, Clinical Lead Nurses and District Nursing Team Leaders using a 1-1 or group approach.

Evaluate with Community Practice and Professional Development Nurses, DN Team leaders and teams the value of the A-Equip model.

Oversee and lead the existing Community Practice and Professional Development Nurses in establishing standardised practices across HDUHB.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and / or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Interviews to be held on 05 / 04 / 2024.

About us

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties.

Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales.

We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through :

• Four main hospitals : Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;
• Seven community hospitals : Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion;
• and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;
• 48 general practices (six of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;
• Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.

The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences.

In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.

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Person Specification

Qualifications & knowledge

Essential

• Registered Nurse (Part 1 of NMC register)
• Bachelors Degree
• Evidence of significant professional leadership / improvement knowledge and expertise.
• Masters level education or equivalent experience
• Recognised Quality Improvement Qualification
• Knowledge and understanding of current policy and issues around professional practice, standards and the wider NHS.
• Recognised management qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.

Desirable

• PGCE (or equivalent) education / development experience)
• Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing or equivalent
• Clinical Supervision qualification / training

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience of clinical leadership of services / clinical team
• Experience and knowledge of community nursing or equivalent clinical area
• Extensive experience of initiating leading and achieving successful practice developments and care improvements across a range of services
• Direct experience of service and organisation change
• Experience of developing and delivery education / training programmes
• Experience in offering and using clinical data to understand staffing and practice performance at an individual and service wide levels
• Demonstrates an integrally person-centred approach to workforce planning and practice developments
• Committed to personal and professional development through lifelong learning

Desirable

• Experience in coaching
• Experience in clinical / restorative supervision

Language skills

Desirable

• Welsh speaker (Level 1)