Band 7 Practice Education Facilitator - Bristol
We are pleased to offer a part-time role (15 hours) over 2/3 days as an AHP Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) working with our established PEF who has recently reduced her days. The role involves great organisational and problem-solving skills, liaising with Higher Education Institutes and coordinating placements for Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Dietetics, and Speech and Language Therapy students and apprentices. One of the 2 days will overlap with the current PEF.
Your role will be key in making student experiences successful and supporting our staff in delivering great learning experiences. This includes offering in-house training for practice educators and keeping abreast of national initiatives on AHP education and delivery. The role is suited to an experienced AHP (OT, PT, SLT, or Dietician) who is keen to develop their skills in practice education, having experience in regularly taking students and being aware of current workforce challenges for AHPs. This role will ideally complement their clinical role in the Trust.
If you'd like to talk to Sophie, the current PEF about the role, please get in touch at sophie.algar@nhs.net or contact Katherine.godfrey@nhs.net, Interim Head of Allied Health Professions.
Main duties of the job
In this post, you will:
* Assess the quality of current and potential learning environments, supporting colleagues to offer a good standard of vocational training aligned with relevant learning outcomes and clinical standards.
* Model, articulate, and promote good practice around the HCPC standards for student education and the professional bodies, RCOT, CSP, BDA, RCS<, contributing to various audit and reporting processes (e.g., Health Education England data returns).
* Maintain a professional liaison between AWP and its partnering Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), representing the Trust in a range of meetings and forums.
* Actively engage with AWP clinicians, learners, and educational colleagues to alleviate concerns and ensure the smooth running of practice placements.
* Be a highly visible and accessible resource to teams and an advocate for learning and education in everything you do.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire, and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees provide better care.
At AWP, we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job responsibilities
* Advise clinical teams and Practice Assessors/Supervisors on teaching best practices in a clinical setting to deliver and maintain high clinical standards for service users and families.
* Influence and inform the development of effective and high-quality learning opportunities for learners, acting as a visible resource to clinical teams.
* Implement agreed actions to maximise the required placement capacity in all clinical teams within the Trust where AHPs are present.
* Develop strong links with Practice Educators to support them within the placement areas.
* Support the development of Practice Educators in the clinical teams through updates, workshops, conferences, and development meetings.
* Enhance and maintain working partnership relationships with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and other system and Regional Education Coordinators.
* Provide support mechanisms for practice educators in liaison with the HEIs in addressing individual student issues, including suboptimal performance.
* Represent the Trust in operational meetings with HEIs to ensure that issues of concern about practice and performance are fully addressed.
* Work to develop a register of AHP practice educators and ensure systems are in place in the organisation to maintain this.
* Facilitate the annual audits of practice environments with the HEIs, ensuring that improvements identified are embedded and maintained, and student feedback is fully utilised to drive improvements in student experience.
* Challenge poor performance among practice educators and learners, identifying required improvements and ensuring these are followed up.
* Participate in and support student recruitment initiatives and induction events.
* Support the development of improved practice education within AWP and HEIs through contributing to local and national initiatives, including placement expansion.
* Maintain clinical competencies as identified in the training matrix.
* Promote up-to-date evidence/research-based practice in relation to the assessment of students and other learners and demonstrate this in own practice.
* Act as a change agent and support other staff in the implementation of new practices.
* Evaluate the quality of student placement experience through the audit cycle and lead or contribute to quality initiatives within the clinical areas.
Person Specification
Experience and qualifications
* Experience in Student Education across multiple AHP Professions.
* Qualification/Formal education in teaching and learning.
* Well-organised with full use of Microsoft packages.
* Confident communicator face-to-face, via phone, and technology-enabled platforms.
* Experience of organising events, conferences, etc.
* ICB level experience in AHP learning issues.
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 the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Interim Head of Allied Health Professions
Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
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