Job overview

This pivotal role involves spearheading the continuous professional and clinical development of nursing staff and students within the Adult Critical Care Unit. 

The Critical Care Practice Development Nurse will lead in initiatives to develop and implement evidence-based clinical practices, and participate in clinical audit, service improvement and research activities aiming to enhance patient care and outcomes.

Collaboration with the senior nursing team and other healthcare professionals is crucial to maintaining a high standard of nursing practice across the unit. This position requires an expert level of knowledge in Critical Care nursing, exceptional leadership skills, and the ability to effectively manage rapidly changing clinical situations.

Responsibilities include designing educational curricula, delivering lectures and hands-on training, and assessing and providing feedback on student and staff performances to ensure learning outcomes are met and recording systems are in place to indicate progress and compliance with training requirements.

This role requires a proactive approach, with a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and continuous improvement in patient care.

Main duties of the job

Be an effective practitioner and professional role model, demonstrating the ability to confidently lead in the provision of a high-quality service in critical care.

Work in the critical care clinical environment to facilitate a continuous process of critically evaluating and improving education provision, ensuring effective patient focused care. 

Nurture the development of an active positive clinical learning environment which supports interprofessional collaboration and encourages personal and professional growth in critical care.

Review, identify, lead and feedback on strategies to improve learner’s engagement, learning, assessment and completion of the CC3N competencies.

Ensure a high standard of evidence-based nursing practice by undertaking clinical audit and research activities.

Demonstrate enhanced leadership skills and act as an effective role model, an expert resource and facilitator for others requiring knowledge, experience and guidance within the Critical Care clinical environment.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH.  We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital due to open in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit.  We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.  We love working here and think you will too.