Lead Nurse - Clinical and Professional Development

Job Summary

As Lead Nurse – Clinical and Professional Development, you will provide national leadership for clinical education and workforce development across Blood Donation. You will lead the quality and assurance of education and training for Registered Nurses and Donor Carers, helping colleagues deliver safe, evidence-based care. You will shape clinical education and workforce development, translate professional and regulatory requirements into effective learning, and use data, feedback and learning from incidents to continually improve programmes. You will also provide professional nursing leadership, support delivery of the NHSBT Nursing Strategy and lead key areas including professional development, revalidation, inclusion and staff-feedback action planning. This is an influential national role with the opportunity to strengthen workforce capability and make a direct contribution to clinical quality and donor safety.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• Provide national leadership for the design, development and quality assurance of clinical education across Blood Donation.
• Lead and develop the Education & Training Hub team, including recruitment, supervision, appraisal and talent development.
• Co-design and implement clinical education and workforce development strategy, ensuring programmes are effective, evidence based and continually improved.
• Provide specialist professional nursing leadership in areas including revalidation, practice development, competency assessment and professional investigations.
• Translate regulatory, professional and clinical requirements into safe, compliant and high-quality education and training.
• Monitor clinical and training data, KPIs, feedback, incidents and risks to identify improvements and provide assurance.
• Build effective partnerships with senior leaders, universities, regulators and other external organisations, representing clinical education at relevant forums.
• Lead or contribute to audit, research, evaluation and innovation to improve education and professional practice.
• Manage delegated budgets, contribute to cost improvement and support the development and procurement of digital learning solutions.
• Support delivery of the NHSBT Nursing Strategy across Blood Supply and lead key workforce initiatives including Our Voice and EDI action planning

About You

Experience and Knowledge

You will bring:

• Significant senior nursing experience in complex clinical environments, with highly developed specialist clinical knowledge relevant to Blood Donation.
• Extensive experience of designing, delivering and evaluating clinical education, together with experience of leading teams across multiple sites.
• Strong leadership, performance management, planning and organisational skills, with the ability to coach, mentor and motivate others.
• Strong analytical and judgement skills, including experience of interpreting complex clinical and workforce data and using insight to drive improvement.
• Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills, with experience of working with senior leaders, multi-professional teams and external organisations and translating national policy into operational practice.

Qualifications and Training

• Registered Nurse (Adult/Child) with current NMC registration.
• Postgraduate qualification at Master’s level or equivalent senior experience.
• Teaching, education or practice development qualification.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.

The role also requires the ability to travel nationally and a willingness to maintain clinical competence for Blood Donation sessions.