Job summary
- Main area
- critical care
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 164-6959941
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queens Medical Centre
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Critical Care Professional Nurse Advocate
Band 6
Job overview
We seek experienced Critical Care Nurses with a PNA qualification to form a PNA and well-being team for the Adult Critical Care and CCOT Directorate. The hours for this post will be shared between appropriately qualified applicants to ensure a robust service offer.
The Professional Nurse Advocate will use the A-EQUIP approach to support critical care and CCOT staff, enhancing system performance and staff/patient experiences across Nottingham City and Queens Medical Centre campuses.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver restorative practice services, including 1:1 and group Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS).
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and evaluate specialist services, ensuring high standards of restorative practice.
- Provide advice and support to staff at all levels, fostering cooperative relationships with other experts and services.
- Contribute to the development of clinical practice and care standards through RCS, identifying educational needs and supporting service improvement and quality initiatives.
- Offer expert nursing advice, care, and support, serving as a point of contact for staff involved in patient care.
Requirements:
- Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Successful completion of a Professional Nurse Advocacy Course and Critical Care course.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specifications for more details.
Main duties of the job
The Professional Nurse Advocate for Critical Care and CCOT will demonstrate inspirational, motivational and visible leadership within the work place. This role will ensure Critical Care and CCOT staff are supported through a continuous improvement process that builds personal and professional clinical leadership, improving the quality of patient care delivered and supporting professional revalidation using the A-EQUIP (Advocating for Education and Quality Improvement) approach. The PNA will be support the well-being and PNA lead in for developing a robust delivery plan to provide restorative clinical supervision (RCS) by using both 1:1 and group sessions.
The PNA will support the well-being and PNA lead in producing reports and present to the senior leadership teams, recruitment and retention team, governance team and the educational team amongst others to drive innovative and positive changes for our staff development. Improving the environments will allow enhancement of the quality of care delivered, personal and professional clinical leadership and professional revalidation.
Please see Job description and person specification for an in depth insight into the main duties of the role,
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will act as a deputy to the Well-being and Professional Nurse advocate Lead.
In addition to the summary below you will need to Familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.
- Advocate for patients, reinforcing that every nurse’s role is to support patients and their families.
- Demonstrate inspirational, motivational and visible leadership in the workplace
- Act as a role model promoting psychological safety and situational awareness.
- Acquiring and maintaining an appropriate repertoire of management skills, engaging in continuing professional development appropriate to the field of practice and continuing to develop competency in line with agreed personal development plans, including leadership skills and enabling the empowerment of other members of the Unit teams. Engage in booster sessions.
- Have suitably accredited Critical Care course and promote to others Identifying opportunities for staff to access appropriate education and training programmes
,and other learning opportunities such as shadowing, mentoring and action learning, ensuring equity and fairness of access - Taking an active role in self-development and identifying one’s needs, taking appropriate steps to meet those needs.
- Support a culture of autonomy, belonging and contribution to inspire continuous improvement and empower staff in all positions to innovate.
- Demonstrate safe, compassionate, consistent and appropriate practice and expert advice using up-to-date knowledge and evidence to assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate support. Communicate findings, influence changes and promote health and best practices within critical care services. Make person-centred, evidence-based judgements in partnership with others involved to ensure optimum restorative practice.
- Using the A-equip model through restorative clinical supervision, discuss any professional issues, including clinical incidents, team dynamics, stress, burnout, bullying, career progression, interview preparation and quality initiatives, and personal matters. Facilitate feedback on themes and learning to influence education and quality improvement initiatives
- Following a traumatic or stressful event or clinical incident allows (or creates) the opportunity for reflection to reduce stress and enable learning, limit compassion fatigue and improve confidence.
- Coach staff through reflection on incidents they may have experienced with a focus on the system and processes. Participate in learning from incidents, including reflection and action in practice.
- Collate data on the effectiveness of restorative clinical supervision (RCS) for staff and the benefit of the PNA role through data collection and staff feedback.
- Portray an understanding of personal and professional resilience, developing this attitude in others
- Contribute to and, where required, lead on initiatives that are aimed at improving staff wellbeing and staff experience. Where appropriate, suggest changes which are aimed at improving standards.
- Provide a high-quality service from referral to assessment and review, referring to other specialists as required.
- Recognise and act to avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and well-being of staff. Advise on promotion of health and prevention of illness, speculating concern as required to appropriate members of MDT.
- Report and raise concerns about safeguarding and accessing advice at the point of need. Be conversant with the trust policies, procedures and systems.
- Support the Unit Sister/Charge Nurse and Well-Being and PNA Lead in:
- Ensuring that best practice undertaken is shared with colleagues in the speciality, directorate and the Trust.
- Helping staff to use clinical information within the Unit or department to help improve the quality of patient care.
- Encouraging staff to be involved in service changes and developments using processes defined within the directorate/division.
- Participating in a communication strategy that enables effective, two-way communication between the clinical area, the directorate, and the division.
- Demonstrating clear lines of communication within a defined clinical area results in clear responsibilities being identified within the multi-professional team.
- Creating a culture where staff have appropriate authority over issues that contribute to providing essential care and enable them to secure and achieve the highest quality standards.
- Being a visible point of contact for patients, visitors, relatives and staff, acting as a resource for problems and needs and presenting the patient’s view to others.
- Assisting in establishing, motivating and developing the clinical team with a clear focus and direction.
- Providing an authoritative and credible source of knowledge and specialist clinical advice and support to the team.
- Be a significant instrument of change within the clinical area in response to clinical incidents and/or demand.
- Compile themes from completing exit interviews of staff leaving critical care and from RCS sessions to recognise improvement
initiatives to aid staff retention and job satisfaction.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse ( Nursing &Midwifery Council registration)
- Relevant post-basic qualification in Critical Care specialist pathway (ENB 100 or equivalent)
- Evidence of academic learning at Level 6 or equivalent
- Possession of NMC Mentoring Course
- Relevant post- basic course in the provision of A-EQUIP model of supervision.
- Completion of any local competency packages
- Maintains professional updating and awareness/ CPD/revalidation
Desirable criteria
- Continuing professional development/ reflective profile
- Research training/experience
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “We are here for you” behavioural standards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience at Band 5 within the acute setting, and within critical care
- Supervision of non- registered staff, pre -registration and post basic students
- Evidence of ability to mentor
- Evidence of well developed leadership, clinical expertise, management & time management skills
- Evidence of change management in nursing
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate an involvement in link nurse, or project work
- Conflict management skills
- Ability to demonstrate negotiation skills
Communication and Relationship Skills
Essential criteria
- Recognition of own level of competence and limitations and able to communicate these to appropriate staff
- Can minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication
- Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relative/carers and staff.
- Able to respond to problem situations and to ensure that effective interventions are put in place
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills
- Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Audit or research within the clinical area
- Providing staff with feedback on their individual performance and use of the knowledge and skills framework
- Ability to identify own learning needs
- Able to contribute to the development of implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload and recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations
- Able to contribute to the development of implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans
- Demonstrate an ability to supervise and support others in the prioritisation of their patient care
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate leadership skills and ability to effectively lead a team
- Demonstrate an ability to recognise when workload and priorities of others are inappropriate and intervene as required
- Demonstrate effective time management skills and effective resource management
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Physically able to perform the full range of nursing duties
- Dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, use of equipment and documentation
- Competent and capable of using medical equipment
- Able to undertake patient manual handling manoeuvres and non-patient manual
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of moving and handling training
Other requirements specific to the role (eg be able to drive or work shifts)
Essential criteria
- Flexible, adaptable and confident Caring, enthusiastic and well -motivated
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sally Stretton
- Job title
- Professional nurse advocate and well-being lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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