Practice Education Facilitator (AHP)

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced Allied Health Professional as a Practice Education Facilitator to support the pre-registration portfolio for Allied Health Professional learners.

You will be expected to work closely with the clinical and pre - registration teams, providing support to professional and education staff.

You will work as part of the team ensuring the provision of high quality learning environments within Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, and will be required to work locally within services where Inter-professional learning opportunities can be promoted.

You will be required to support the breadth of the student experience, which may require cross boundary working, student mentorship, training delivery and contribution to the delivery of the new Quality Assurance Concordat.

Team working is essential and you should have an adaptable attitude, use you initiative, and have good clinical expertise, excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a dynamic team.

We are looking for someone who has the passion, determination and creativity to support innovation in pre-registration portfolio the delivery of results.

If you feel you have the skills, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Assessing the quality of a range of practice learning environments, determining interventions to sustain and enhance practice education; ensuring all service areas/ placement providers have an up to date action plan in place, informing the annual quality monitoring of Learning and Development Agreements.

Supporting and facilitating the development of clinical practice supervisors/ assessors, providing supervision and support structures in order to build education in practice capability, consistency and efficiency.

Leading on capacity management and student allocations within practice settings to ensure sufficient capacity to meet contractual demand.

Leading on the structuring and coordination of interprofessional learning activity across a service area(s).

Participating in single Quality Assurance multiprofessional site visits across organizations.

Developing, co-coordinating, evaluating and implementing education programmes with Higher Education partners. For example, contributing to curriculum development, validation and review through the Annual Quality Review of the Education Contracts.

About us

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal and care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice

The aims of this Trust are to improve the health of and provide the best possible care to the population in which we serve and ensure that our staff has joy and pride in their work. We are striving to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities in which we serve. We value our staff and can offer excellent opportunities for further training and development. We are keen to reflect our local population and therefore applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed.

In addition, we can offer you:

27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS service)
Eligibility for our NHS Car lease scheme
Eligibility for our NHS Technology Scheme
Access to on-site Gymnasium
Various NHS Discounts

Date posted

12 January 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

241-31CD-24

Job locations

Royal Bolton Hospital and community locations

Bolton

BL4 0JR

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description. If you have any further questions regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Essential

Significant evidence of a Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience.
Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting
Experience of having worked across professional and organizational boundaries
Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures
Professional qualification, to a minimum of degree level, with up to date HCPC professional registration
Experience of staff management/staff supervision
Ability to present to large groups of people
Practical experience of facilitating change
Able to plan, implement and evaluate education programmes
Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff

Desirable

Specialist knowledge of education in practice at Masters level or equivalent experience

essential

Essential

Significant evidence of a Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience.

Person Specification

Essential

Significant evidence of a Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience.
Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting
Experience of having worked across professional and organizational boundaries
Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures
Professional qualification, to a minimum of degree level, with up to date HCPC professional registration
Experience of staff management/staff supervision
Ability to present to large groups of people
Practical experience of facilitating change
Able to plan, implement and evaluate education programmes
Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff

Desirable

Specialist knowledge of education in practice at Masters level or equivalent experience

essential

Essential

Significant evidence of a Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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