Job summary
Do you have a passion for teaching?
Are you a professional who wants to play a key role in supporting the future workforce to provide high quality palliative care and End of Life Care?
Then this may be the role for you.
Hospice at Home is piloting a new role for a Clinical Educator to support its existing clinical teams, students, and the local community in providing palliative and end of life education.
The project is initially funded for a two year fixed term.
Main duties of the job
The clinical educator is an experienced healthcare professional. They will help newly appointed staff or staff and students in training, by providing knowledge, skills, and experience through coaching and clinical supervision.
They will support the clinical management team in clinical supervision and education, internally and externally with our local stakeholders.
In addition to mentoring newly qualified professionals, they will also support practice placements for learners and liaise with other practice placement support staff to ensure consistency of support across the setting.
Hospice at Home also aims to support our local Palliative and End of Life Care for all, and the clinical educator would support future projects in sharing learning externally.
About us
Hospice at Home's core service is its skilled team of Registered Nurses and Healthcare Assistants who provide exceptional care and support in people's last year of life and at end of life, also providing additional services such as Lymphoedema, Bereavement and Family Support, Befriending, Occupational Therapy, and Complementary Therapy.
We provide individualised care and support to improve quality of life, and our end of life care helps facilitate a peaceful and dignified death in the home and support to those who are bereaved.
Our clinical service area covers a mixture of urban and rural communities, a region of approximately 1,500 square miles throughout North and East Cumbria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supporting Learners- Internal staff and student placements.
Organisational Support- Acting as an ambassador for palliative and end of life services and participating in outreach activities on behalf of the organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Registered Professional
2. Significant post registration experience.
Desirable
1. Teaching Qualification.
2. Palliative Care Qualification.
3. Advanced Communication Skills Training.
4. Coaching
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
1. Work to agreed timelines.
2. Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a team.
3. Enhanced communication skills for appropriate and effective communication with patients, carers, and colleagues.
4. Enhanced care delivery skills.
5. Ability to coach and develop staff.
6. Ability to support and build rapport with staff.
7. Well-developed IT skills.
8. In-depth knowledge of related medical conditions, treatment, and pharmacology including management of long term conditions.
9. Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Experience
Essential
1. Proven post registration experience of working effectively in a team.
2. Working with palliative care patients and families.
3. Mentor experience.
Desirable
1. Evidence of effecting change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see.
Employer details
Employer name
Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland
Address
Valley Court, Barras Lane
Dalston
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA5 7NY
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