Lead Nurse-Education and Training

Job Introduction

Prestige Nursing and Care

Lead Nurse: Education and Training

Location: Epsom head office/home working

Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)

Contract: Permanent

Pay: £32,000-£41,000 per annum

About Prestige Nursing and Care

Prestige Nursing Ltd is registered by the CQC and provides high quality domiciliary care, as well as nurse led complex clinical care via 26 local branch offices in England and a similar service is provided through five branches in Scotland.

Our services span the generations and include:

• Adults of all ages, including the elderly and frail, based in their own homes and community setting
• Children and young people in and outside of the home setting i.e. at school, college, social activities and play

About the role

We are seeking a registered nurse, who is passionate about education and training, who can optimise the provision and development of education and training which underpins and upholds the delivery of high quality complex clinical care provided to clients in their own homes.

Working alongside the Head of Clinical services, Clinical Leads and Regional nurses you will develop and maintain training resources which enable and support the regional nurses to train non-registrant professional carers to gain and maintain competencies relating to key clinical tasks and interventions required by clients in the home setting.

Responsible to the Head of Learning and Development, and accountable to the Head of Clinical Services, the role is an important component of our clinical governance framework and contributes to ongoing service improvement through education and training. Whilst the role predominantly supports the training infrastructure surrounding complex care provision, there will be opportunities to provide face to face training and to develop and share your expertise in a key subject matter.

During the Covid 19 pandemic, our regional nurses have been home based with access to branch office where required, to support on-going work in the community setting. Assisted with appropriate PPE, they have continued to meet with carers and clients lead complex care packages. Our staff have access to weekly tests and the vaccination programme for all health and social care staff has been rolled out at pace.

Role Responsibility

Key deliverables

• To strengthen, design and/or procure education and training resources which support complex clinical care in the community/ home-care setting, enabling the integration of theory and practice. This includes developing teaching and competency assessment plans.
• To lead on the coordination, development and maintenance of existing, and new, teaching and competency assessment plans to equip and support registered nurses, across the regions, to deliver standardised education and training to professional carers providing complex care.
• Provide education expertise advice and support, keeping up to date with national standards, and best practice guidance, and integrating new findings, and recommendations into relevant work programmes.
• Respond to data generated through adverse events, compliments and complaints to develop training which is responsive to developing service needs and supports continual improvement.
• Identify and support new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques relating to clinical care as well as pending packages which require additional expertise knowledge.
• Be a subject matter expert on an agreed area
• Where required, provide specialist clinical teaching to groups as well as providing one to one support to individuals wishing to enhance their skills
• Contribute to updating relevant policies

The Ideal Candidate

About You

We are looking for an enthusiastic forward-thinking registered nurse, ideally with community experience and a teaching qualification or experience, although consideration will be given to those with proven clinical expertise. You will have the confidence and competence to further develop and strengthen the training infrastructure relating to complex clinical care.

Essential requirements

• Current UK professional NMC registration: RN/RNC//RN:LD
• Ongoing evidence of CPD
• A recognised teaching and assessing qualification, 998
• Working knowledge of child and adult safeguarding procedures

Desirable

• Experience working within a community setting
• Experience working within the independent sector/charity

For informal enquiries and further information please feel free to contact:

• Judith Adams, Head of Clinical Services : , Telephone number : 07881517744 or
• Donna Geraghty, Head of Learning and Development:, Telephone number: 07917791148

Closing date: Monday 29th March

Interview date: Week commencing Tuesday 6^th April

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Package Description

• Good rates of pay with a bonus scheme related to performance
• Free DBS
• Option to combine home /office-based working with in-house IT support and resources
• Comprehensive induction, when new to role and in-house training
• Ongoing senior clinical support
• A friendly, community-based working culture
• Employee Assistance Programme – Immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to include support such as financial and family concerns

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.