Practice Educator Nurse - Band 6 equivalent

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will deliver the Naomi House and Jacksplace education and training programme to clinical staff to enable them to provide specialist palliative care and support for children and young people from 0-35 years. The post holder will also be expected to lead and manage the team during clinical shifts, providing a high standard of holistic care to children and young people with a variety of complex health needs. Effective communication skills are required to support children, young people and their families during their stay in the hospices. The hospices provide care over a 24-hour period and the post holder is expected to work flexibly across all shifts.

Key Responsibilities

To positively support and influence clinical skills development for all care team staff to sustain quality care delivery

To support the development of the clinical competence of the Care Team in Naomi House, Naomi House at Home and Jacksplace in line with agreed educational development strategies and priorities.

To lead the provision of a very high standard of care and support for all children, young people and their families attending Naomi House and Jacksplace

To participate in the development and implementation of educational programmes to support the professional development of all care team staff

Leadership Responsibilities

To work primarily in the clinical area with the Care Team, role modelling, advising and supporting their development of competency and confidence.

Provide teaching of clinical skills to the care team and assess individuals competency using the clinical competency framework

To facilitate study days, workshops and hands on training to support clinical skills development for all care team staff.

To collaborate with Clinical Team Leaders to identify individual educational needs and assess staff competency and confidence.

To lead and coordinate the day-to-day provision of care to the children, young people and their families in both houses.

To allocate staff appropriately on each shift to ensure effective use of resources.

To be responsible for ensuring a holistic assessment is completed for all children and young people to enable up to date care plans incorporating all necessary risk assessments.

To provide accurate and complete data and maintain the training database as appropriate

To line manage staff as delegated by the Clinical Team Leader, participating in appraisals and day to day staff management.

Clinical Responsibilities

To deliver a high standard of individualised holistic care and support to children, young people and their families, promoting empowerment, advocacy and partnership.

To manage staffing and allocate resources across both hospices according to assessed acuity on each shift.

To contribute to the development of others enabling them to apply current knowledge and skills in practice.

To actively promote the workplace as a learning environment encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice.

To contribute to the development of the clinical competencies framework in line with evidence based practice

To monitor standards of care, participating in audit and required actions.

To have a working knowledge of a variety of technology.

To participate in networking, professional updates and benchmarking to maintain a current knowledge of professional issues. Inform the care team of updated changes to areas of clinical practice

To generate and use appropriate learning opportunities and apply own learning to the future development of practice.

To maintain links with local universities to support shared learning

To support staff and placement students as required, including the identification and support of staff with additional learning needs.

Personal

To be responsible and proactive in personal professional development by:

Maintaining awareness of current developments in palliative care for children, young people and families.

Maintaining clinical skills identified in the Competency Framework.

Ensuring timely revalidation with the NMC

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Competent clinical skills to include: Medicine management/intravenous therapy; Palliative care symptom control, respiratory/care of tracheostomy, nutritional care/ enteral feeding, neurological/epilepsy management
• Commitment to Continued professional development of self and others maximising opportunities for learning.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills; Ability to lead a multi professional team during a shift managing own time and resources effectively.
• Evidence of people management skills. Ability to support and supervise junior staff.
• Knowledge of relevant guidance/NMC local policies to support clinical practice
• Good understanding of safeguarding children policies and procedures- with safeguarding experience including Child in Need, Child Protection, Looked after Children.

Desirable

• Demonstration of teaching skills and understanding of a variety of educational teaching methods
• Enhanced communication skills including: Makaton, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), PECS.
• Knowledge and experience of various physical and mental health conditions associated with children, young people with life limited diagnosis and palliative care.
• Knowledge of theory of education and a variety of teaching methods suitable for differing members of staff
• A working understanding of Clinical Governance and Care Quality Commission standards.

Qualifications

Essential

• REGISTERED NURSE with valid up to date registration with NMC.
• Bachelors Degree in Nursing or relevant clinical experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Teaching Qualification (7307/Certificate in education/PTTLS or equivalent) or willingness to complete

Desirable

• RSCN/RN Child
• Practice assessor qualification

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience of caring for children or young people with highly complex needs and disability within a clinical environment.
• Demonstration of own clinical competencies
• Evidence of experience in a teaching and learning environment including assessment of clinical competency.
• Competent in completing an individualised nursing assessment of the child/young person and developing individualised plans of care.
• Experience and good understanding of clinical supervision and reflective practice.

Desirable

• Experience of working with children/young people in a palliative care environment.
• Evidence of actions taken to optimise learning outcomes within a clinical environment
• Experience of clinical audit.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Wessex Children’s Hospice Trust (Naomi House)

Address

Wessex Childrens Hospice Trust

Stockbridge Road

Sutton Scotney

Winchester

Hampshire

SO21 3JE

Employer's website

https://www.naomihouse.org.uk (Opens in a new tab)