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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this position is Mon – Fri 9-5.
Applications are invited for this seldom available opportunity for an experienced innovative nurse to join the Mental Health Service Practice Development Nurse (PDN) Team. You will be an integral part of the Practice Development Team operating across prison healthcare, inpatient and community Mental Health Service areas within NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and the six Health & Social Care Partnerships (HSCP). You will be required to work alongside members of the diverse multi-disciplinary/ integrated teams to quality assure and support professional and practice nursing development.
You will work under the line management and have professional accountability to the Professional Nurse Lead with responsibility for supporting the delivery of the professional Nursing Work-plan. To achieve delivery objectives of the work-plan the Mental Health PDN is required to collaborate and work alongside a diverse range of stakeholders including members of the multidisciplinary team, integrated services colleagues, third sector organisations representing patients and carers to support and quality assure professional nursing practice development.
You will develop nursing teams by contributing to the development of a transparent, responsive learning culture via coaching and mentoring for inpatient, community and prison healthcare mental health nursing and contribute to continuous quality improvement of care delivery in practice.
Your practice will be underpinned by demonstrable values of compassionate, safe and effective person centred care and you will provide highly visible leadership presence across services you support.
Informal contact: Jacqueline King, Professional Nurse Lead, 0141 232 2015, Jacqueline.king6@nhs.scot
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.
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