This is an amazing opportunity to join our Empower team within Spirit Healthcare. We are a rapidly growing family of healthcare companies and offer an exceptional package and progression for the right person. These are exciting times - come and join us!
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the Education Services Manager, the role is key in delivering an exceptional, effective structured diabetes education service for patients across the UK (evening and weekend availability is required). Flexibility is required and offered.
1. Delivery of the EMPOWER programme to patients.
2. Delivery of face to face and video courses.
3. Ensuring the EMPOWER programme is delivered in accordance with the curriculum, syllabus, educator handbook, lesson plan and service Operating Manual.
4. Ensure delivery of the EMPOWER programme in accordance with all Spirit policies and procedures.
A full job description is available.
About us
Spirit Health Group is a fabulous place to work. We genuinely do things differently! We are like no other healthcare company and only employ exceptional people who embrace and encourage change. We innovate. We simplify. We inspire. We look at things from a new perspective, and we genuinely care about patients and our people. We live by our values of brilliance, vigour and family - that's how we roll.
Our outstanding levels of achievement have won us recognition from Best Companies every year since 2021.
Our people are pivotal in:
1. Saving the NHS millions of pounds with a rapidly growing range of cost-effective healthcare products and devices.
2. Implementing medicines optimisation and prescribing programmes, brilliantly.
3. Building innovative digital remote monitoring solutions for people with long-term health conditions.
4. Providing patients with high-quality education services.
5. Dispensing NHS prescriptions through our friendly pharmacy that has a passion for diabetes.
Our massive growth plans will help us save the NHS £100 million and touch the lives of millions more patients.
Job responsibilities
What are the results and outcomes this role is to achieve?
* The post holder undertakes training and passes competence assessment to deliver diabetes education.
* Diabetes education is delivered in an inclusive and interactive manner which allows for questions and discussion on the topics covered.
* Delivery of education is patient centred and allows for a variety of learning styles to support cognitive learning.
* The educator introduces and covers each topic following the curriculum closely.
* Educators reflect on the session, identify what went well, what went less well and what changes could be made.
Any reasonable duties shall be undertaken to achieve the above.
What performance measures are necessary to measure the above?
* Undertake a structured training programme and pass a competency assessment to enable delivery of the course following the curriculum.
* Annual observation and reaccreditation process.
* Achieve a consistently high patient feedback score.
* Delivery of interactive structured diabetes education programmes in accordance with the set curriculum and lesson plan.
* Use a range of sound teaching and learning techniques to improve participants' ability to self-manage their diabetes.
* Ensure the course is delivered using the most up-to-date programme content.
* Understand the administration and course organisation process undertaken by the admin team.
* Ensure all paperwork is completed, e.g., attendance sheet, quality of life questionnaires, goal setting and action plans, and satisfaction surveys.
Specific Skills/Competencies/Qualifications/Person Specification
* Experience of delivering health education.
* Sound clinical knowledge and understanding of diabetes.
* Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Clinical knowledge and understanding of diabetes.
Experience
* Experience of delivering health education.
Skills and Competencies
* Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
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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