Senior Development Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Nursing Development Team (NDT) at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust for the post of Senior Development Nurse (Pre-Registration Nursing Practice Lead). This is a great opportunity for an experienced senior nurse with a passion for workforce development, clinical education, and leadership to enhance and develop their career. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the Trust's pre-registration nursing workforce, driving professional excellence, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality care through strategic leadership and innovative training and development initiatives., The Senior Development Nurse (Pre-Registration Nursing Practice Lead) will provide strategic and operational leadership for the pre-registration nursing workforce and early career development pipelines across the Trust. This role will oversee core programmes including Student Experience (SE) workstreams, Care Certificate Programme (CCP), HCA Development Programmes, Nursing Associate (NA) and Registered Nurse (RN) Top-Up Apprenticeships, and Newly Qualified Nurse (NQN) and Nursing Associate (NA) recruitment pathways.

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLStG) is a leading provider of mental health services across South West London and is a beacon of excellence for many of the national mental health services. We serve over 1.1 million people across the London boroughsof Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth and employ more than 2,5000 staff, providing care and treatment to around 20,000 people from South West London and beyond atany given moment.

As a teaching trust, we also provide education, training and research inpartnership with a number of universities.

Our values are in keeping with the NHS Constitution and our Behaviours Framework set the standards for how we plan and make decisions; deliver quality care; behave with each other and service users and recruit, induct, appraise and develop our staff. We are looking for staff who willhelp us live these values and help to make SWLStG a better place for everyone., We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.