Job summary
- Main area
- Education
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 264-8103384-COR
- Employer
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Northamptonshire
- Town
- Kettering
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 Pro Rata if Part Time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/11/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/11/2026
Employer heading
Corporate Practice Development Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
This post if a full time UHN corporate Practice Development Nurse working within the Pre Registration Team predominately
The post will include cross site working across UHN to support pre registration learners in practice and support staff in supporting learners in Practice .
It involves teaching , arranging induction's , designing training &, supporting the wider Practice development team as required
Main duties of the job
Assist with any of the six primary workstreams in the education department: Preceptorship, Clinical skills, Corporate Practice Development, Healthcare Support Worker
Leadership and Pre-registration learners
Working for our organisation
Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.
We recognise that AI tools can support application writing; however, candidates are asked to keep their use to a minimum. Responses should reflect your own experience, skills and knowledge, as over-reliance on AI-generated content may result in generic answers that do not accurately represent your abilities.
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Deliver competency-based and relevant education and training programmes across the Trust to support ongoing professional development.
- To be involved in the specific developments of programmes and education delivery
- Be innovative and encourage proactive evidence-based practice to inform service development.
- Promote effective collaboration among members of the multidisciplinary team to enhance the overall patient experience.
- Collaborate with colleagues and service users to assess the evolving needs of the local population. Promote practices that are dynamic, efficient, innovative, and regularly updated to ensure they remain relevant and responsive to these needs, particularly in educating staff for effective service delivery.
- Develop and implement informed guidelines to ensure consistent, evidence-based best practice.
- Ensure compliance with internal and external healthcare standards and contribute to policy formation
- Act as a clinical role model, demonstrating supportive behaviours
- Where specific requirements are expected within the UHN Nursing Education Development team i.e. clinical working, pathway development/training; organise how these will be timetabled alongside the corporate requirements
- Be willing to support service delivery of education & development at both NGH and KGH sites where applicable
Person specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
- Educated to level 6 or equivalent level of education or experience.
- Teaching qualification.
- Practice Assessor and Practice supervisor qualification or teaching qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- Management qualification
Knowledge and Experience.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates awareness of current changes in the NHS.
- Experience of managing challenging situations to meet a positive outcome.
- Proven track record of teaching and supporting learners in practice.
- Effective leadership and experience in the management of change.
- Experience of conducting appraisals and supporting others.
- Evidence of recruiting and inducting new staff.
- Knowledge of current Development opportunities within UHN.
- Experience of managing a team and staff performance.
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience within a clinical setting for at least two years.
- Experience of quality assurance auditing related to education requirements.
- Experience of interpreting and managing complex data management and returns.
- Experience of managing a complex workload.
- Developing and Evaluating Teaching Programmes
Skills.
Essential criteria
- Influencing and negotiating skills.
- Ability to undertake challenging conversations with individuals who may be distressed and divulge distressing issues.
- Effective managerial, leadership and motivation skills.
- Effective teaching, training, and preceptorship skills for large groups of learners.
- Ability to design, implement and evaluate bespoke programmes of learning and projects
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload
- IT competent using Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint, Forms
- Excellent time management skills.
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Ability to work collaboratively across a range of professions.
- Ability to communicate and network with a wide range of people from a variety of settings, including NMC, NHSE, national and regional events
- Act as an advocate, using escalation and signposting to other services as appropriate
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of the wider agenda and the need for public/service user involvement
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients, and service users
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with staff, patients, learners, and carers from a diverse background
- Flexible and resilient
- Works effectively within a team
- An ability to remain positive during service changes and challenges
- Ability to problem solve, anticipate, and forward plan
- Act as a role model to others
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with UHN vision and values
- Able to demonstrate reflective practice and facilitate this in others
- Must be able to demonstrate understanding of, and behaviours consistent with the NMC Code 2015
- Ability to remain calm when working under pressure and seek help when required
- Ability to maintain a high level of concentration when managing competing demands
- Physical effort is required both clinically and setting up/managing educational activities
- Ability to travel between the Kettering and Northampton Hospital sites and other UHN sites where required
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mandy Massey
- Job title
- Matron for Nursing Education and Development
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01604545583
- Additional information
Hayley Burns : [email protected]: Matron For Nursing Education and Development
Melanie Rowland - [email protected]: Team Leader for Pre Registration
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire
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