Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Assessment Unit
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-HF7139
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Town
- Woolwich
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum plus HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Practice Development Nurse - Acute Assessment Unit
Band 7
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
Are you passionate about delivering excellent patient care and looking for a fresh challenge?
If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and dynamic Practice Development Nurse to join our Ward 22/23 team.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is launching a new clinical model across our Acute Medicine and Acute Frailty services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in November 2025. We are seeking motivated and compassionate nurses to join our team at the heart of this transformation.
The new model introduces four specialist units designed to deliver high-quality, efficient and patient-centred care. Staff will have the opportunity to work across all four areas, supporting development and providing broad clinical experience. These include:
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A dedicated Acute Assessment Unit (AAU)
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An enhanced Acute Medical Unit (AMU)
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A Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit
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An Acute Frailty Unit (AFU)
This is your opportunity to shape a forward-thinking service with strong leadership, clear pathways and a commitment to development, wellbeing and collaborative working. If you’re ready to be part of this exciting change, apply now and help us deliver the right care, in the right setting, at the right time.
Main duties of the job
To maintain primary responsibility for ensuring the Division provides a progressive learning environment for all grades of nursing staff. The post holder will support and coordinate the development of Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates Health Care Support Workers and both pre- and post-registration nursing students by co-ordinating educational activities and assessments of learning within the department.
To be involved in the Corporate agenda participating in practice and nursing development within their Division and liaising with the Practice Development Lead Nurse as appropriate.
The post holder will actively promote and contribute to inter-professional learning activities across the Division and Trust wide and be an effective role model for best practice nursing. The post holder will provide educational and clinical support for the nurses in the clinical area for 80% of their working time
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be involved in the Corporate agenda participating in practice and nursing development within their Division and liaising with the Practice Development Lead Nurse as appropriate.
The post holder will actively promote and contribute to inter-professional learning activities across the Division and Trust wide and be an effective role model for best practice nursing. The post holder will provide educational and clinical support for the nurses in the clinical area for 80% of their working time
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years of Band 6 acute medical care experience
- Significant and proven clinical and management skills within a relevant clinical field
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary working.
- Previous involvement in quality initiatives.
- Experience in teaching, mentoring and assessment.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit/QI Project
- Experience of interprofessional teaching and learning in the clinical environment including undergraduate medical education
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates evidence of developing innovative practice and of being proactive in managing change
- Awareness of current developments in own clinical specialty
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Computer literate with good skills using the Microsoft packages
- Presentation skills
- Research awareness and demonstrates how this relates to practice 2
- Demonstrates an understanding of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- NMC registered Nurse
- A degree in Nursing or equivalent
- A clinical expert either through formal qualification (diploma/degree) and/or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area.
- Other appropriate post basic qualifications and experience
- Appropriate Mentorship/ Practice Supervisor/ Practice Assessor qualification
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification (PG Certificate Practice Education or equivalent) or a willingness to work towards one.
- Leadership/ management experience
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.
Application numbers
We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tracey Toomey
- Job title
- Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07342066993
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