Work directly alongside staff for 75% of the role to facilitate staff becoming competent and capable practitioners by improving the quality of the learning environment through support, supervision, and professional development opportunities for all within the practice setting. Act as a positive, professional role model in promoting clinical excellence and offer expert, professional development advice ensuring practice is patient-centered and evidence-based.
Collaborate with the theatre sisters and matron to plan, deliver, maintain, and evaluate an effective specialist clinical learning environment through role modeling, leadership, and excellence in practice.
1. Ensure a robust assessment system is in place to provide continuous clinical support and supervision.
2. Develop and participate in the induction and orientation programme to theatres for all staff.
3. Ensure that the specialist theatre training records for all staff are kept up to date.
4. Support practice development and project work within the service, demonstrating a commitment to disseminating information and sharing experiences.
5. Ensure a progressive approach to raising standards and the advancement of professional practice and patient care in line with national and trust strategy.
6. Design, develop, and deliver training sessions in clinical practice settings and evaluate learning.
7. Instigate education opportunities for assessors, educators, and preceptors in practice to enhance their mentorship skills.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and serving as a base for medical education, training, and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we build with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, focusing on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
Principle Responsibilities
Practice & Staff Development
Work directly alongside staff for 75% of the role to raise, monitor, and evaluate standards of clinical practice using evidence-based frameworks. Establish and develop effective relationships with the theatre team to plan and facilitate changes and innovation in practice.
Use coaching and mentoring techniques to support practitioners in clinical areas and facilitate the implementation of personal development plans, agreed programmes of change, and project work within the service, demonstrating a commitment to disseminating information and sharing experiences.
Act as a role model and clinical expert to colleagues by guiding practice, assessing competence, and supporting the implementation of policies to enhance learning in the knowledge and provision of perioperative care.
In collaboration with senior clinical staff, develop and maintain an effective and creative learning environment for all individuals seeking knowledge and experience in perioperative practice, supporting the theatre sisters, team leaders, and matron in all matters relating to staff development.
Demonstrate an advanced level of clinical competence and inform practice development with a current knowledge of professional practice and healthcare issues, promoting evidence-based practice.
Contribute to a climate where staff members can appropriately question and challenge practice, and where decision-making can be openly debated and discussed, assisting departmental leaders in implementing change effectively.
Provide sensitive feedback focused on the progress of learners and foster a climate in which best practice can be safely debated and reflected upon.
The job description should be regarded as a guide to the duties required and is not definitive or restrictive. It may be reviewed in light of changing circumstances following consultation with the post holder. This job description does not form part of the contract of employment.
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