Primary Care Development Nurse

The PCDN team support Primary Care teams and Nurses to improve the delivery of long-term conditions (LTCs) care across the city to improve patient outcomes, reduce unwarranted variation and health inequalities. You will be a keen, committed person with a current nursing registration. The role is challenging and wide-ranging being suited to those wishing to make a difference to the population of Sheffield. With excellent interpersonal, negotiating and communication skills the ideal candidate will have excellent knowledge and experience of working in a primary care setting and sound clinical knowledge of people with or at emerging risk of LTCs.

As nurse leaders the team work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to develop and support the implementation of quality improvement projects (informed by the NHS Long-term Plan, Local QA/QI & Prioritise, NHSE & I Priorities/incentives), gather feedback and review outcomes.

If you have used any Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmes, such as ChatGTP, to support your application, please declare this at the start of your supporting statement, The team act as a catalyst for change working to ensure services are person centred, evidenced based, accessible, needs led, and integrated. This is achieved by forging close links with key professionals across the health and social care system including transformation managers, providers, the wider local authority, and voluntary sector. We provide clinical expertise and oversight acting as an interface between organisations, improving the opportunities for interaction across boundaries.

As members of the PCDN team the post holders will contribute to the development and delivery of the teams Strategy and Implementation plans. They will support the development of new and innovative practices, responding to emerging knowledge and techniques and working with other services where appropriate to make improvements. The PCDN team work proactively to identify and improve the quality of care for people of Sheffield by promoting national guidelines and local strategies. We use audit tools and analyse data to identify gaps in services and work collaboratively with others to develop solutions and support initiatives that enhance patient care and improve safety.

We promote workforce development by upskilling Primary Care colleagues and empowering them by building strong relationships.

The team develop resources (for example Practice team Hub) to disseminate information to colleagues in Primary Care and promote communication.

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our four places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.