Retire and Return (R&R) Nurse inStoke-on-trent inStoke-on-trent PUBLISHED THU 16 JAN 2025
North Staffordshire GP Federation rWI3eUlI
Key responsibilities include collaborating with the Staffordshire Training Hub and Integrated Care System to facilitate training and placements for student nurses, as well as supervising and assessing various nursing staff. The role aims to strengthen the nursing workforce by fostering educational clusters, clinical supervision, and upholding high-quality patient care standards across member practices. The R&R Nurse will act as a mentor and role model, guiding recruitment efforts and ensuring that experienced nurses continue to contribute to general practice effectively.
Location: Hybrid working across Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire
Hours of work: 10 hours per week (potential to increase)
The role of the Retire and Return (R&R) nurse is to support and strengthen the workforce in order to retain experienced nurses to share their knowledge and skills with new and existing nursing staff in primary care.
For this leadership role to be successful, credibility with peers will be essential. The post holder will be a General Practice Nurse who is potentially looking towards retirement with experience in supervising and assessing members of the nursing workforce. They will have excellent interpersonal skills and be passionate about improving the standards for learning and developing the nursing workforce in General Practice.
The successful candidate will be a GPN from the Staffordshire area who is retiring but would like to maintain professional registration (Minimum 150 hours per year NMC requirement).
Aim
To retain experienced General Practice Nurses within general practice in a bespoke role to support and develop the workforce in innovative ways to the benefit of multiple practices.
To support North Staffordshire GP Federation (NSGPF) to develop a robust system to retain retiring nurses who have experience and knowledge to guide, support and nurture the next generation of the primary care nursing workforce. To ensure high quality care is delivered to patients. To target retention of experienced GPNs to support recruitment to General Practice Nursing. The role can be developed by NSGPF requirements and national guidance and work in collaboration with the Staffordshire Training Hub and their GPN Facilitators.
Job Description
- The post holder will work across the NSGPF across Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire. It will be critical that the individual links in with all practices within NSGPF
- The successful candidate will liaise with and report to the NSGPF Associate Director of Nursing
- The role will work closely with the Retire and Return Nurse Project Lead (Staffordshire Training Hub)
- Also liaising with partner organisations within the Integrated Care System (ICS) including but not inclusively; GPN Facilitators working for Staffordshire Training Hub and HEIs
- The Project Lead and the Associate Director of Nursing will provide support.
Key sessional commitments include:
- NSGPF meetings as requested
- PCN meetings as requested
- Attendance at face-to-face Clinical Supervision.
About us
Core elements of the role
- To work closely with the GPN Facilitators (STH) to support Practices within the NSGPF to recruit and supervise new GPNs into the role
- To support the growth of supervisors and assessors in General Practice Nursing and to maintain logs of their location within the NSGPF and relevant training in conjunction with the PNF in the Staffordshire Training Hub
- To facilitate supervisor and assessor training updates as appropriate
- To plan a programme for the student nurses whilst on placement
- To act as practice supervisor and/or assessor for student nurses, nurses new to General Practice, Nurse Associates and Health Care Support Workers as appropriate
- To liaise with HEIs to provide placements for pre-registration student nurses within NSGPF
- To develop NSGPF based student nurse placements and support with educational cluster sessions
- To maintain clinical competencies to be able to supervise and assess students and new GPNs
- Supporting and leading clinical supervision sessions across the NSGPF practices for the nursing workforce after appropriate training (this is a CQC requirement)
- To provide the role of Internal or External Cytology assessor for new sample takers across the NSGPF as appropriate and therefore will need to continue to be a current cervical smear sample taker
- Provide the role of assessor for Student Nursing Associates to support Practices
- Provide the role of assessor for Trainee Health Care support Workers to support practices
- Support nursing teams across the NSGPF with the appraisal process if requested to do so
- Provide support to Lead GPNs across the NSGPF if needed, particularly around infection prevention and control and guidance leading up to CQC inspections.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Leadership
- Develop strong working relationships with the NSGPF, member Practices and key nursing leads within the NSGPF and practices
- To be a role model for new recruits into the nursing workforce in the NSGPF, supporting and nurturing ensuring appropriate levels of supervision and support to support recruitment and retention.
Delivery and Implementation
- Work collaboratively with the Project Lead (Staffordshire Training Hub) to ensure approaches to delivery are clinically appropriate as well as supportive
- Help resolve issues or challenges by supporting Nursing Staff and Practices in learning and development in clinical areas of practice
- Support identification of measures and indicators that require further support to grow placements for student nurses and new General Practice Nurses.
Communications and Engagement
- Be a champion for General Practice Nursing recruitment and retention
- Develop educational cluster session for student nurses on placement within the NSGPF, liaising with other Retire and Return nurses in other areas of the Staffordshire system.
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