• Job Description

  Req#: C9277-25-0890?language=en&page=211&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust offers an exciting opportunity for a Practice Development Nurse (PDN) to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our inpatient mental health services.

  Do you thrive on making a difference? Are you an expert practitioner with a passion for empowering others?

  As a Band 8a PDN, you'll provide ongoing support and development for all levels of nursing staff, ensuring they deliver exceptional patient care.

  What you'll do:

  Act as a role model and expert practitioner, providing continuing education and coaching to nurses.Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to drive the future of nursing through innovative practice development initiatives.Deliver educational programs and robust supervision, aligned with local and national best practice.Identify learning needs, develop resources, and facilitate change within the inpatient setting.

  Main duties of the job

  • The post holder is accountable to the Head of Nursing and thus will work closely with the Head of Nursing to develop practice within nursing.
  • Collaborate with the Quality Improvement (QI) advisor and Head of Organisational Development to ensure effective implementation of change initiatives.
  • Work in conjunction with the national culture of care team to coordinate the programme activities over the duration of the programme.
  • Facilitate and sustainably embed learning and sharing within the ward, learning network, and broader community.
  • Supporting wards in moving away from risk stratification and promoting personalised clinical safety planning.
  • Highlight the use of QI methodologies and co-production with lived experience expertise as essential aspects of meaningful change.
  • Supervise and support the lived experience quality management partner role.
  • Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace.
  • Be responsible for the continuing development of competency based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.
  • Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.
  • Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.

  About us

  Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We're Kind
  • We're Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

  Details

  Date posted

  17 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £61,631 to £68,623 a year pa inc

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  277-7352883-AAC

  Job locations

  Pinewood House

  Pinewood Place

  Dartford

  DA2 7WG

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  • Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace.
  • Be responsible for the continuing development of competency based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.
  • Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.
  • Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.
  • Be involved in the developing of Policies, Procedures and Standard Operating procedures that will affect the Nurses in the directorate
  • Ensure that agreed policies are followed to provide a safe environment for patients, relatives and staff.
  • Ensure the effective communication between nursing colleagues, Multi- professional teams, patients, relatives/carers and provide advice and support where there are difficulties in relationships when appropriate.
  • Lead, facilitate and participate in research projects and clinical audit and implement any changes.
  • Deliver educational programmes in relation to clinical, practice and professional development using up to date methods of delivery, including e learning packages.
  • In conjunction with Learning and Development department assist in the development of e-learning packages in line with borough clinical priorities.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  • Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace.
  • Be responsible for the continuing development of competency based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.
  • Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.
  • Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.
  • Be involved in the developing of Policies, Procedures and Standard Operating procedures that will affect the Nurses in the directorate
  • Ensure that agreed policies are followed to provide a safe environment for patients, relatives and staff.
  • Ensure the effective communication between nursing colleagues, Multi- professional teams, patients, relatives/carers and provide advice and support where there are difficulties in relationships when appropriate.
  • Lead, facilitate and participate in research projects and clinical audit and implement any changes.
  • Deliver educational programmes in relation to clinical, practice and professional development using up to date methods of delivery, including e learning packages.
  • In conjunction with Learning and Development department assist in the development of e-learning packages in line with borough clinical priorities.

  Person Specification

  Essential

  Essential

  • RMN/RNLD with current NMC registration
  • Educated to masters level or relevant experience
  • oEvidence of continuous professional development oRelevant teaching certificate 998 or equivalent

  Essential

  Essential

  • oMinimum of 2 years at band 7 appropriate to post applied for oPrevious experience of working in inpatient and Community sectors Experience of skills training/teaching oExperience of providing supervision

  Essential

  Essential

  • oAbility to participate and lead on quality improvement/audit projects oProject management qualification/skills Ability to analyse audit and research data Ability to draw conclusions and action planning from data reports oAbility to teach/share learning oAbility to prepare, implement facilitate and audit learning

  Essential

  Essential

  • oBe able to use computer systems (word excel Rio) Ability to use data base and access and understand relevant Trust data bases.

  Person Specification

  Essential

  Essential

  • RMN/RNLD with current NMC registration
  • Educated to masters level or relevant experience
  • oEvidence of continuous professional development oRelevant teaching certificate 998 or equivalent

  Essential

  Essential

  • oMinimum of 2 years at band 7 appropriate to post applied for oPrevious experience of working in inpatient and Community sectors Experience of skills training/teaching oExperience of providing supervision

  Essential

  Essential

  • oAbility to participate and lead on quality improvement/audit projects oProject management qualification/skills Ability to analyse audit and research data Ability to draw conclusions and action planning from data reports oAbility to teach/share learning oAbility to prepare, implement facilitate and audit learning

  Essential

  Essential

  • oBe able to use computer systems (word excel Rio) Ability to use data base and access and understand relevant Trust data bases.

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Pinewood House

  Pinewood Place

  Dartford

  DA2 7WG

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Pinewood House

  Pinewood Place

  Dartford

  DA2 7WG

  
  

  Employer's website

  http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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