Job summary
Do you have a reputation for delivering skilled and creative approaches to health care learning/teaching, with particular interest in undergraduate healthcare students? Do colleagues want to emulate your professionalism and motivation in clinical/classroom settings, remember you as a positive role model, shaping their commitment to delivering high quality care? If you want to be at the heart of developing the future healthcare workforce, join our UHB Practice Placement Team where Quality and Safety of patient experience is at the centre of everything we do, as we lead the way with our own School of Nursing, AHP and Midwifery.Working within the Practice Placement Team under supervision of Practice Placement Managers you will support the implementation and delivery of quality nursing care through teaching, assessing and supervision of Practice Supervisors, Practice Assessors and undergraduate students based at Heartlands Hospital and their satellite dialysis units.You will need to be a registered practitioner with 12 months experience working with undergraduate healthcare students with a good understanding and knowledge of local university processes for practice placements. You will have sound working knowledge of the NMC supervision and assessment standards as an up to date Practice Assessor, experience teaching a range of clinical skills within your current role, awareness of undergraduate nursing curriculums and prepared to work flexibly across our 4 sites.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual that will demonstrate flexibility, workload planning and ability to work in a fast paced environment to:-
* Support induction/orientation of students to UHB, ensuring they feel welcomed
* Assist students with placement documentation in order to achieve their learning outcomes
* Provide pastoral care support, conduct student forums and review meetings
* Enhance student experience by coordinating/teaching a range of clinical skills and complete placement audits to assess student suitability
* Support practice supervisors/assessors so they have the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to support, teach and assess students, including underachieving students, in developing action plans, escalating to universities and placement managers
* Utilise excellent written/oral communication skills to ensure staff/ students are supported with potential practice fails and utilise digital methods for communication/record keeping
* Demonstrate desire to improve the student placement experience as a credible practitioner, with ability to produce exciting teaching plans/sessions and deliver clinical teaching skills
* Be a visible role model, ensuring trust policy is maintained for patient safety, work with clinical/education teams across the trust to increase placement capacity and create learning opportunities
* Demonstrate a proven track record of supervision and assessment, with understanding of the NMC Standards for Supervision and Assessment
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
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*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
- * Demonstrable experience as a Practice Assessor/Supervisor
- * Degree in Health Care Subject
- * Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development & competence
Desirable
- * Teaching qualification (PG Cert (Ed) or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- * Significant post registration experience in clinical practice (minimum 12 months/completed preceptorship period)
- * Evidence of working with and supervision and assessment of student health care professionals
Desirable
- * Evidence of developing new initiatives
- * Ability to demonstrate an active role in teaching in current post
- * Evidence of having a positive impact on the student experience
- * Evidence of improving the quality of the student learning environment
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Competence in a range of skills and expanded practices relevant to the practise settings for the post, and the ability to teach, supervises others
- * Demonstrates clinical expertise and the ability to deliver evidence based clinical care to high standard
- * Assessment skills
- * Strongly developed communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information with developed persuasive, influencing and empathy skills in order to provide and receive sensitive and often contentious information
- * Able to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances e.g. underperformance
- * Facilitating and supporting others, providing guidance, reassurance and empathy
- * Assertive and confident, with the ability to relate to, motivate and influence clinical staff
- * Committed to student development
- * Able to act as a resource and demonstrate excellent negotiation skills
- * Ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines and work independently
- * Ability to work flexibly to support students on clinical shifts
- * Flexible approach to work and willing to adapt to regularly changing situations in a fast paced environment
- * Organising and prioritising workload
- * Good IT skills and the ability to produce clear, accurate, written, verbal and electronic reports
- * Positive attitude
- * Approachable
- * Knowledge of the NMC Standards to Support Student Supervision and Assessment (SSSA) (2018)
- * Understanding of the principles of Teaching and Learning in a clinical environment
- * Ability to attend cross site and external meetings sites as required
- * Provide team cover across all sites to support service e.g. SSSA training, student/staff support, student forums/skills sessions
Desirable
- * Evidence of formal/informal teaching which has influenced patient care
- * Networking and establishing good working relationships -- with Trust staff, students, HEIs
- * Evidence of ability to confront challenging issues taking a problem solving approach, knowledge of change management and ability to implement
- * Involvement in audit
- * Possess a high degree of personal accountability and the ability to work both autonomously and within a team
- * Time management, prioritization and organizational skills and ability to work to tight deadlines and perform under pressure
- * Ability to network internally and externally
- * Knowledge and experience of Nurse Education delivery in the NHS and local Higher Education Institutes
- * Knowledge of pre-registration student curricula and the associated assessment schedule/requirements
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
- * Demonstrable experience as a Practice Assessor/Supervisor
- * Degree in Health Care Subject
- * Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development & competence
Desirable
- * Teaching qualification (PG Cert (Ed) or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- * Significant post registration experience in clinical practice (minimum 12 months/completed preceptorship period)
- * Evidence of working with and supervision and assessment of student health care professionals
Desirable
- * Evidence of developing new initiatives
- * Ability to demonstrate an active role in teaching in current post
- * Evidence of having a positive impact on the student experience
- * Evidence of improving the quality of the student learning environment
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Competence in a range of skills and expanded practices relevant to the practise settings for the post, and the ability to teach, supervises others
- * Demonstrates clinical expertise and the ability to deliver evidence based clinical care to high standard
- * Assessment skills
- * Strongly developed communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information with developed persuasive, influencing and empathy skills in order to provide and receive sensitive and often contentious information
- * Able to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances e.g. underperformance
- * Facilitating and supporting others, providing guidance, reassurance and empathy
- * Assertive and confident, with the ability to relate to, motivate and influence clinical staff
- * Committed to student development
- * Able to act as a resource and demonstrate excellent negotiation skills
- * Ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines and work independently
- * Ability to work flexibly to support students on clinical shifts
- * Flexible approach to work and willing to adapt to regularly changing situations in a fast paced environment
- * Organising and prioritising workload
- * Good IT skills and the ability to produce clear, accurate, written, verbal and electronic reports
- * Positive attitude
- * Approachable
- * Knowledge of the NMC Standards to Support Student Supervision and Assessment (SSSA) (2018)
- * Understanding of the principles of Teaching and Learning in a clinical environment
- * Ability to attend cross site and external meetings sites as required
- * Provide team cover across all sites to support service e.g. SSSA training, student/staff support, student forums/skills sessions
Desirable
- * Evidence of formal/informal teaching which has influenced patient care
- * Networking and establishing good working relationships -- with Trust staff, students, HEIs
- * Evidence of ability to confront challenging issues taking a problem solving approach, knowledge of change management and ability to implement
- * Involvement in audit
- * Possess a high degree of personal accountability and the ability to work both autonomously and within a team
- * Time management, prioritization and organizational skills and ability to work to tight deadlines and perform under pressure
- * Ability to network internally and externally
- * Knowledge and experience of Nurse Education delivery in the NHS and local Higher Education Institutes
- * Knowledge of pre-registration student curricula and the associated assessment schedule/requirements
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
