Senior Nurse for the Primary and Community Care Academy
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Job Overview
The post holder will provide operational leadership for education and training programmes across the Primary Care and Community Division. This includes ensuring high‑quality delivery, robust quality assurance processes, and effective management of the education workforce to meet divisional and organisational priorities.
As a professional and managerial lead, the post holder will support the ongoing development of nurse education, promote excellence in nursing practice and contribute to the advancement of clinical skills. The role requires the ability to guide and support staff, ensuring that training provision aligns with service needs, professional standards and regulatory requirements.
In addition, the post holder will play a central role in supporting the delivery of safe, effective and high‑quality patient care. They will be responsible for managing and developing the workforce to ensure competence, capability and continuous improvement.
The role also involves leading on designated education and professional development projects as directed by the Clinical Lead Nurse. This includes contributing to service improvement initiatives, supporting change management and ensuring that education and training activities are well‑governed and aligned with organisational strategy.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide professional leadership and operational management for education and training across the Primary Care and Community Division. They will ensure high‑quality, safe and effective patient care by developing the nursing and clinical workforce, supporting robust educational programmes and contributing to service improvement.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Leading, managing and quality‑assuring all education and training programmes across primary care, community services and care homes.
- Supporting the development of nursing practice through training needs analysis, programme development and partnership working with universities and HEIW.
- Providing expert professional leadership, ensuring compliance with NMC standards, safeguarding requirements, clinical governance processes and Health Board policies.
- Overseeing workforce development, including supervision, appraisal, recruitment, retention and skill‑mix review within the education team.
- Managing key education‑related projects and producing reports to inform divisional decision‑making.
- Monitoring patient safety, quality and risk themes, ensuring learning from incidents, complaints, and audits leads to service improvement.
- Building strong relationships with internal and external partners and communicating effectively across all levels.
- Managing budgets, resources and activity reporting for education and training programmes.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways, including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Language: English
Essential criteria
- 1st level Nurse, NMC registered RGN, with current registration.
- Master's Degree or equivalent, demonstrable level of knowledge and experience
Desirable criteria
- PGCE
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Non-Medical Prescribing
- Experience in the organisation and delivery of educational programmes
- Considerable experience working at a senior level
