Clinical Skills Lead

Band 7 Clinical Skills Lead, 37.5 hour post based at West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven

How would you like to shape the future of nursing across North Cumbria? These 2 posts will give you that opportunity. The Emergency Care and Medicine care group at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Trust have been recruiting nursing staff from across the globe to join our teams here in Carlisle and Whitehaven, we have also been recruiting local people into roles where the opportunity to develop is amazing. These new Clinical Skills roles are being created in order to provide support to our newly qualified nurses, our international recruits, our healthcare assistants who are working towards Nursing Associate roles or even Registered Nurse.

The Clinical Skills Lead will provide education, training, support and development to staff in line with the agreed training and education priorities set at Care Group and ward/dept. level and in response to identified needs of team/individual.

The Clinical Skills Lead will be key in the development of a sustainable workforce and will lead the design, delivery and evaluation of learning resources and training programmes/events for the back of house areas within the care group. The role will have a particular emphasis on the development and promotion of clinical skills training, preceptorship and apprenticeships and practice development to ensure staff are able to deliver outstanding care to patients and maintain safe working practices. The clinical skills lead will have close links with the similar roles within EAU and ED teams.

The Clinical Skills Lead will design and develop programmes to support newly qualified/new into post professionals transition from student to qualified practitioner and establish support for those completing Care Certificate, staff who are advancing into Band 4 roles and subsequently then into RN posts.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

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As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.

A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.

27 day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

Excellent opportunities for development

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies

EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and info