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Practice Development NurseNHS

Dunstable, LU5 4JD Permanent £49,387 to £56,515
Posted 7 August 2026 Closing date 23 August 2026
Leagrave Rail Station (2.9 miles away) Luton Station Interchange (4.6 miles away)

Job summary

Supporting community nursing practitioners across Bedfordshire to enhance their clinical performance and confidence.

Work clinically with community nursing teams/clinicians to ensure service competencies are completed.

Act as a positive role model - maintaining clinical competence and credibility to enable provision of both professional and clinical supervision, skill development and support.

To take the lead on the development of clinical practice supporting the operational manager and Team Leaders

Drive the quality agenda and ensure that the Quality strategy underpins all operational services

To support the community nursing and wider community teams participating in out of hours on call rota where appropriate.

Main duties of the job

To support staff to identify learning needs and work in partnership with Team leaders to ensure all essential training required to perform the post is undertaken

To support senior managers and the Team Leaders to ensure locality services meet CQC requirements with particular regard to records management, ensuring the team maintain a high standard of both manual and computerised documentation.

Support the management of risks within the locality, taking appropriate mitigating action and ensuring the reporting of incidents in accordance with the policy.

To contribute to the peer review and assurance process across the localities in partnership with Team Leaders

To support staff to identify learning needs and work in partnership with Team leaders to ensure all essential training required to perform the post is undertaken

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Support the management of risks within the locality, taking appropriate mitigating action and ensuring the reporting of incidents in accordance with the policy.

To provide professional support and leadership to the teams in the absence of the Team Leader

  • To deliver training sessions and support the skills and Drills induction programme

Job description

  • To contribute to the peer review and assurance process across the localities in partnership with Team Leaders

To provide targeted interventions in localities where risk and/or issues are identified

To provide professional support and leadership to the teams in the absence of the Team Leader

  • To deliver training sessions and support the skills and Drills induction programmeprovide professional support and leadership to the teams in the absence of the Team Leader
  • To deliver training sessions and support the skills and Drills induction programme

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

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