Job overview
Are you an active and innovative person?, do have excellent communication and organisation skills and are you ready to take on a new challenge in your career? We have an exciting opportunity at Barking, Havering Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust to join the established Clinical Skills Team as a Clinical Skills Practitioner. We seek a highly motivated, ambitious NMC Registered Nurse or Midwife who is passionate about education and committed to support the delivery of all clinical skills training. The Clinical Skills Practitioner will focus on building a workforce fit for the future and promoting the Trust as a 'Employer of Choice'. You will work closely with the Quality and Safety Lead to develop, implement, evaluate and maintain a core curriculum of clinical skills and simulation training for the inter-professional workforce. As a Clinical Skills Practitioner you will work closely with wards and departments to support clinical staff in developing clinical skills to provide safe and effective care.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Skills Practitioner role is responsible for supporting the co-ordination and delivery of Clinical Skills Training Trust wide, delivering on all aspects of clinical skills training and Moving and Handling training.
Delivery of training will be at a high standard and be evidence based. This role will involve delivering training programmes across all sites, teaching skills to a wide range of multi-disciplinary staff groups, student and apprentices and supporting clinical areas and wards with skills audits and learning support as necessary.
You will support the Quality and Safety Lead for Education to meet the Trust’s clinical skills and training agenda across the Trust.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.
Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.
Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered Nurse/Midwife with appropriate evidence of revalidation
2. Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of experience
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
3. Teaching, assessing and mentoring students in a clinical setting
Desirable criteria
4. Experience of managing difficult conversations.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of diverse learners
Desirable criteria
6. Experience of training delivery using the OSCE approach.
Applicant requirements
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.