Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (secondment opportunity)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 208-B31AD5-25-1
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Global House
- Town
- Scunthorpe
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practice Assessor/District Nurse
Band 7
Job overview
Are you an experience District Nurse with a Practice Assessor qualification looking for a new challenge in North Lincs?
As an experienced District Nurse with a Level 7 Practice Educator qualification you will be delivering advanced, high quality clinical interventions
to your patients whilst supporting the education and training of future District Nurses workforce.. The Community Practice Assessor holds a
pivotal role in teaching, facilitating learning, the specific assessment of District Nursing students and all staff within the District Nursing Service to
ensure they have the right knowledge and skills who are safe and fit for practice; providing assurance the workforce will deliver the high quality of
care to meet the needs of the population including patients with continuing healthcare needs, health coaching and well-being. The Practice
Assessor will conduct evidenced based assessment of students in line with the HEI curriculum and NMC standards, also providing constructive
feedback working alongside the academic assessor.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will demonstrate skills commensurate with their level of practice across all four pillars of practice. In addition to their clinical and
teaching responsibilities they will also act as role models in terms of leadership and quality improvement culture. Working with multiple partners
within and without the organization the post holder will promote, support and develop our community nursing workforce including specialist
community clinicians in line with NMC requirements and standards for the Specialist Practice Qualification.
Key relationships will include
• Community Team Leads
• C&T Quality Improvement
• HEIs
• Associate Chief Nurse
This posts will provide the opportunity to take forward the expanding role of community nursing within the multi-disciplinary integrated team to meet the long term conditions and end of life care agenda, linking and working closely with the GP’s. It will be expected that you will have an understanding and commitment to the continuing development and modernisation of community nursing and must have effective communication and negotiation skills.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing
- Nurse Prescribing
- Practice Assessor Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of further professional development.
- Two year post degree clinical experience.
Occupational Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of leadership, change and people management.
- Car Owner driver.
- Evidence of commitment to continued professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of change and people management.
- Experience of research/development and audit.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Inglis
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795470650
- Additional information
Rachael Dent
07926078394
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