Pre-Registration Student Lead

Job summary

Are you invested in the future workforce for Dorset Healthcare? Are you passionate about supporting students to have the best possible experience whilst in practice? If yes, then we would love to hear from you.

Due to a secondment opportunity within the team, we are excited to offer a 12 month fixed term position to lead the wonderful student support practitioners in supporting our pre-registration students.

You will be responsible for the line management of the team, overseeing the placement co-ordination and pastoral support of all pre-registration students in Dorset Healthcare, whilst liaising with Providers, NHSE and Dorset System colleagues. You will be a part of embedding the Student placement strategy in practice, allowing our placement offer to expand and support the pipeline of future workforce into the Trust

This post provides a vital and important role in ensuring a cohesive approach to the delivery of student placements across the Trust and assurance that students learners complete placements that enable them to practice safely, effectively and with confidence and compassion.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to the building of a learning culture throughout the Trust and work closely with other members of the L&D team and the wider organisation to ensure the provision of an excellent and equitable education service.

The Clinical Student Lead will work with the L&D Service Leads to use educational resources to support both students and supervisors in practice, to ensure learners experience a high-quality placement, and develop strong working relationship at all levels across the Trust and with external partners to develop a culture whereby the student experience is firmly embedded in practice.

In this role, the post holder will draw on their experience of earlier career roles, and project management skills, to lead a team of practice educators and Placement Administration support in delivering safe, high quality pre-registration education and placements ensuring we have the required number of placements across professional groups and are able to expand our placement capacity in line with local and national strategy.

Use negotiation skills and act as a conduit between HEIs and Trust services in order to assess the learning/capacity need, if services can meet this need and to then agree provision of student placement numbers.

To work with Trust services where there are issues with placements or where concerns are raised in order to rectify the situation.

About us

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.