Practice Education Facilitator for Clinical Placement Expansion
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Education plays a significant role in the current context and future ambitions of the Trust. The Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) for placement expansion will focus on maintaining a sustainable CLiP model and supporting our wards with their clinical expansion and supervision methods to support our pre-registration learners.
The Trust wants to ensure a high-quality clinical learning environment is provided through support, educational input, and developmental activities for nursing students and practice-based assessors and supervisors. The role aims to enhance the quality of the practice learning experience by providing expansion to clinical placements on ward areas within the practice environment.
This role will require excellent communication between numerous stakeholders, including PAHT practice areas and partner Universities/Education providers. The successful applicant will lead on change and support clinical areas through this change.
This role will work directly with nursing students on clinical placement, positively contributing to the expansion of the future workforce, supporting stakeholders as an additional pastoral mentor, and building on our education plans.
Main duties of the job
Key aims of the role are to:
1. Focus on maintaining a sustainable CLiP model for students within our organisation.
2. Support the supervisors and assessors as an additional pastoral advisor.
3. Ensure that the standards and values required for learning, development, and assessment are embedded and maintained in everyday clinical practice.
4. Work across professional boundaries to ensure that all nursing students on placement within the Trust receive the best possible education experience that supports the highest standard of learning and development.
5. Educate teams on the ward about the placement models and practices that will support increasing the number of placements available at PAHT.
6. Enhance the clinical learning environment by maintaining sustainable placement models across all placement areas within the trust.
7. Provide support to staff, actively engaged with the development of students across the trust.
8. Support teams with adhering to equality, diversity, and inclusion best practices.
About us
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient, and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at any time.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Degree level or equivalent.
* Professional registration e.g. NMC.
* Active practice assessor or supervisor in a clinical area.
* Teaching/Education qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience.
Experience
* Experience of teaching, supervision, and assessing healthcare students in practice settings.
* Experience of working in a clinical environment.
* Experienced practice assessor and/or supervisor in the clinical environment.
* Experience of undertaking training needs analyses.
* Experience with recruitment, retention, and interview processes.
Skills & Knowledge
* Understanding of the clinical expansion ideals and the associated expansion models currently used e.g. CLiP and hub and spoke.
* Ability to act as a team leader to an identified group of staff, monitoring and documenting the development of their clinical skills.
* Understanding and/or experience of embedding equality, diversity, and inclusion into teaching.
* Specific specialist knowledge of pre-registration education programmes at both clinical and education levels.
* Knowledge and experience of designing and delivering training courses.
Personal Qualities
* To take a leadership role in crisis situations.
* Able to solve problems.
* To communicate varied and complicated information (verbally and in writing) effectively.
* Ability to deal with busy/challenging managers, staff, and students, remaining polite and courteous at all times.
* Ability to influence service leads and practice assessors and supervisors to offer placements.
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.
Salary
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
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