Community Practice Development Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This role promotes continuous professional development for nurses, nursing associates, healthcare assistants, and students across Ealing Community Partners/Trustwide. It involves developing and delivering CPD opportunities, supporting practice placements, and ensuring high standards for nursing learners in line with NMC requirements. The post also contributes to preceptorship, nursing education projects, and the development of internationally educated nurses, while auditing and evaluating practice standards.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Demonstrable record of personal development
- High quality written and oral communication skills
- Good leadership skills
- High quality interpersonal skills
- Good clinical skills
Desirable criteria
- Recognised Teaching Qualification
- Master degree (or working towards)
- Specialist Clinical Skills
- Recognised Teaching Experience /Qualification
- Experience in general/ community nursing across a range settings i.e. inpatient and community. Substantial recent experience in practice development / service improvement / nursing education
- Previous experience as Ward Manger/Clinical Team Leader
- Previous experience in working within a clinical governance framework
- Experience in project management
- Knowledge of national policy relating to health services.
- Government's modernisation agenda, including Clinical Governance.
- Good understanding of physical and mental health care needs.
- Able to deal with complex inter-related information and activities
- Able to assess priorities and identify patients' needs
- Knowledge of commissioning process
- Knowledge of education consortiums structures and processes
- Understand systems theory
- Working knowledge of competency base systems of appraisal/assessment
- Excellent team player and ability to facilitate partnership working
- Source of inspiration
- Decisive and does not avoid sensitive issues
- Acts as good role model
- Good time manager
- [contact details removed]
- Record of professional publications
- Qualifications and Training
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Demonstrable record of personal development
- High quality written and oral communication skills
- Good leadership skills
- High quality interpersonal skills
- Good clinical skills
- Recognised Teaching Qualification
- Master degree (or working towards)
- Specialist Clinical Skills
- Recognised Teaching Experience /Qualification
- Experience in general/ community nursing across a range settings i.e. inpatient and community. Substantial recent experience in practice development / service improvement / nursing education
- Previous experience as Ward Manger/Clinical Team Leader
- Previous experience in working within a clinical governance framework
- Experience in project management
- Knowledge of national policy relating to health services.
- Government's modernisation agenda, including Clinical Governance.
- Good understanding of physical and mental health care needs.
- Able to deal with complex inter-related information and activities
- Able to assess priorities and identify patients' needs
- Knowledge of commissioning process
- Knowledge of education consortiums structures and processes
- Understand systems theory
- Working knowledge of competency base systems of appraisal/assessment
- Excellent team player and ability to facilitate partnership working
- Source of inspiration
- Decisive and does not avoid sensitive issues
- Acts as good role model
- Good time manager
- [contact details removed]
- Record of professional publications
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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West London NHS Trust
Community Practice Development Nurse
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
To promote continuous professional development of Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates, Health Care Assistants and Nursing Students across Ealing Community Partners/ Trustwide. To contribute to the development and delivery of continuing professional development opportunities for nurses, Nursing Associates Health care assistants, students, including the support and development of practice placements, new inductees and pre/post registered students. Competent in the role of practice supervisor and assessor, ensuring that placements and support for nursing learners are of a high standard in line with NMC requirements. Contributing to the delivery of nursing preceptorship across the trust and supporting the delivery of key nursing education and quality assurance projects such as nursing recruitment and retention activity, and the development of internationally educated nurses. Contribute to the development and use of systems to audit, assess and evaluate standards of practice. role model best practice in relation to Service User and Carer engagement.
Main duties of the job
Contribute to supporting and developing practice placements and the practice supervisor and assessor role, ensuring that placements and support for nursing learners are of a high standar
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