Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Job overview

Are you an experienced registered nurse who wants to support those new to practice? We are looking for empathetic nurses who want to help those new to the profession and working at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. This role is for up to 15 hours a week supporting newly qualified nurses across the Trust. Those qualified to work in mental health settings will be particularly desirable.

Main duties of the job

You would be an advocate for the profession and meet with newly qualified nurses in their first year of practice either in groups or singly to help them find their feet and provide them with an independent voice to help them to resolve issues that may have arisen. This role is one which will help retention within the Trust and requires enthusiasm and knowledge of the profession gained through experience in practice.

Working for our organisation

Working in Learning and Development you will work with a team of enthusiastic staff who work with a range of different staff both in the classroom and clinical practice to ensure that they can develop and provide the best possible patient care. All Learning and Development staff work together as part of a wider team whilst focusing on their specific roles to help the development of staff, in this case newly qualified staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Reporting to the Preceptorship Lead, the post holder will take responsibility as part of the Trusts Learning and Development Team for providing professional support, training and development of a group of newly qualified nurses, who are undertaking the Flyer programme, across the Trust. The post holder will work with the newly qualified nurses in practice across a variety of clinical and geographical areas including mental and physical health, and will support learners in practice to compete their preceptorship programme and help them to be feel settled in the Trust. Working as part of a team the post holder will take responsibility for a defined group of newly qualified nurses from a specific Service area and will act as a key resource for supervisors in order to support the retention of the staff within the organisation.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

  • Registered Nurse
  • Educated to degree level

    • Desirable criteria

  • Education qualification (D32/33, mentor qualification, teaching qualification)

    • Experience

    Essential criteria

  • Evidence based professional knowledge & clinical skills within clinical practice underpinned by theory and experience
  • Clear understanding of learning needs and challenges faced within the clinical settings.
  • Effective facilitation skills with well-developed supervision and mentoring skills.
  • Demonstrable previous success in contributing to delivering change by engaging staff and establishing clear work priorities with them, ensuring a capability to deliver.
  • Evidence of ability to motivate and influence individuals.
  • Able to plan and prioritise own work closely working with the team members.

    • People Skills

    Essential criteria

  • Ability to inspire confidence and respect of others through excellent communication, negotiation and influencing.
  • A positive desire and interest in developing people and the requirement to provide pastoral support to leaners.
  • Able to undertake and manage challenging conversations in a thoughtful and effective manner
  • Able to support the team and share workload evenly.

    • Other

    Essential criteria

  • Car driver will access to car or alternative transport. Ability to travel between sites and to regional meetings
  • Able to work flexibly to access staff on shift patterns out of hours and between sites in order to achieve an equal approach throughout the Trust.
  • Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
  • Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
  • Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
  • We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
  • Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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