The postholder will support with the development of AHP degree apprenticeships at Mersey Care NHS FT.
On an operational level this will include providing expert advice, guidance and support to both AHP apprentices and their Educators, monitoring the overall quality of the learning experience and enabling appropriate allocation of apprentices to practice placements.
Overall contribution by the post holder to the continuous development of the AHP degree apprenticeship provision at Mersey Care will include partnership working with associated Higher Education Institutions, Mersey Care Senior Leadership and NHS England colleagues.
Shortlisting planned for: 17 February 2025
Interview planned for: 4 March 2025
Main duties of the job
1. Developing and supporting AHP Educators in decisions relating to the AHP apprentice experience including the achievement of learning outcomes, competence and fitness for practice.
2. Supporting and facilitating the development of AHP Educators providing supervision and support structures in order to build education in practice capability, consistency and efficiency.
3. Engaging with and developing practice placements across all Allied Health Professions to ensure appropriate allocation of AHP apprentices in order to enable all apprentices to successfully complete their individual programmes.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and is also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job responsibilities
1. Assessing the quality of a range of practice learning environments, determining interventions to sustain and enhance practice education; ensuring all service areas/placement providers have an up-to-date action plan in place, informing the annual quality monitoring of Learning and Development Agreements.
2. Supporting and facilitating the development of clinical practice mentors/practice supervisors, providing supervision and support structures in order to build education in practice capability, consistency and efficiency.
3. Leading on the structuring and coordination of inter-professional learning activity across a service area(s).
4. Participating in single Quality Assurance multi-professional site visits across organisations.
5. Developing, co-coordinating, evaluating and implementing education programmes with Higher Education partners.
6. Lead on the structuring, design and delivery of inter-professional learning opportunities in practice for healthcare students and mentors/practice supervisors, within own organisation.
7. Work in partnership with the HEIs in the planning, delivery and review of development programmes for mentors/practice supervisors in order to meet the learning needs of different professional groups.
8. Identify opportunities where multi-professional mentorship, practice supervision can be facilitated in practice as a foundation for inter-professional learning to take place.
9. Produce and maintain a portfolio of education in practice activity within service area(s).
10. Lead on the development, implementation and review of education in practice learning environments in line with educational policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Specialist knowledge of education in practice at Masters level equivalent e.g.: mentorship module at Masters level.
* Professional qualification, to a minimum of degree level, with up-to-date professional registration with NMC/HCPC.
Knowledge & Experience
* Substantial broad range of post qualifying clinical experience.
* Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting.
* Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries.
* Practical experience of facilitating change.
* Experience of staff management/staff supervision.
* Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures.
* Knowledge and experience of the private, voluntary and independent sector.
* Experience of working within Allied Health Professionals in a variety of clinical settings.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Excellent interpersonal skills able to engage and build effective relationships at all levels in stakeholder organisations.
* Ability to present to large groups of people.
* Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff.
* Able to plan, implement and evaluate education programmes.
* Excellent organisational and administrative skills.
* Knowledge of different methods/styles for teaching and learning.
* Detailed understanding of curriculum development including the generation of learning outcomes.
* Detailed understanding of a range of regulatory body requirements.
* In depth knowledge of Quality Assurance principles and framework.
* Working knowledge of Inter-professional learning theory.
* Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access.
* Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
* Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative.
* Ability to work flexibly and manage competing priorities.
* Consistently high attention to detail and quality of work.
* Ability to work as a member of a team.
* Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds.
* Adaptable to meet differing learning styles/preferences.
* Willingness to work across organisation boundaries.
* Ability to write evidence-based reports.
* Understanding of quality improvement methodology and outcome measurement.
* Ability to supervise staff on a day-to-day basis.
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.
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