Practice Education Facilitator - Haemoglobinopathy and Pain
Band 6
Main area: Haemoglobinopathy
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent: PEF - 0.25 WTE Haemoglobinopathy and 0.2 WTE Pain
Hours: 17 hours per week
Job ref: 387-SPS8961-GB-A
Site: Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre
Town: Bristol
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/04/2025 23:59
As an organisation, we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
Bristol, as the Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre (HCC) for the Southwest region, provides and coordinates specialist care/advice to over 290 adults with Sickle cell, Thalassaemia, and Rare anaemias. We are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate individual to provide educational opportunities to all staffing groups involved in the care of individuals with a Haemoglobinopathy disorder. The role will focus on providing evidence-based and best practice education and learning opportunities to ward staff including ED and ITU, local GP surgeries, and regional hospitals within the Southwest.
They will also work collaboratively with the Adult Acute pain service to deliver specialist pain management care to individuals admitted with a severe painful sickle cell crisis. The aim is to ensure patients receive optimal pain management and care. You will act as the first point of contact for ward staff and the Acute pain service. The role will involve teaching and assessing competencies relating to complex analgesia techniques, maintaining competencies through the use and design of innovative learning opportunities, and educating the wider clinical team. They will maintain accurate records for the purpose of evaluating pain management outcomes, feedback, and service improvement.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
* Promote a positive image of University Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
* Contribute towards sharing good practice within the multidisciplinary team.
* Create a suitable environment where effective learning can take place and that individual learning needs are identified in relation to education.
* Educate a diverse group of healthcare professionals and providers to ensure that patients receive a high quality of clinical care, that fosters good patient experience and gives regard to their religious belief, culture and doctrines.
* Ensure that own practice demonstrates current clinical knowledge and evidence-based practice.
* Act as a resource for education and clinical expertise in hospital and the community.
* Maintain own knowledge of Haemoglobinopathies care, treatments, and pain management to provide effective educational support.
* Support staff members in enabling learning to develop best practice through research, education, audits, and learning from incidents.
* Maintain accurate records of training undertaken by members of staff.
* Assess current learning and training needs across services, network sites and work with the HCC team to develop and ensure relevant clinical-based learning programmes and resources are of the appropriate standard.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston, and beyond.
As a forward-thinking multi-award-winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston; join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds: city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce, we aim to recruit and retain a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Post Registration course in a relevant subject
* Bachelor’s Degree (or working towards)
* Willingness to undertake a PGCE or Master’s Degree
* Master’s Degree
* Supportive
* Respectful
Skills and Abilities
* Organisational and time management skills
* Effective team player
* Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
* Able to engage with a variety of personnel within the Trust and outside e.g. wider NHS services
* Evidence of teaching skills and an ability to present locally and nationally
* Innovative and able to create a variety of learning opportunities for staff
* Able to effectively contribute to a clinical environment that is motivating and conducive to lifelong learning
* Able to collate and analyse data, and a working knowledge of IT
* Knowledge of Haemoglobinopathies and principles of complex analgesia techniques in sickle cell
* Knowledge of Sickle cell
* Knowledge of quality standards and NICE recommendations
Knowledge and Experience
* Recent and relevant experience in caring for patients with inherited conditions
* Evidence of an informal and formal teaching role
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Able to understand the educational training needs of the staff and patients
* Have current knowledge of national and local standards and guidance in the context of Haemoglobinopathies and Complex analgesia techniques in sickle cell
* Experience of developing education training packages
* Experience of undertaking research or audit projects
* Evidence of commitment to research-based practice or evidence of project work participation
* Knowledge of current changes within the NHS and nurse education
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Prisca Lux
Job title: Lead Haemoglobinopathy Clinical Nurse Specialist
Email address: Prisca.Lux@uhbw.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0117 3422774
Additional information
For further details about this vacancy please contact Prisca.Lux@uhbw.nhs.uk
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