Practice Education Facilitator for Clinical Placement Expansion

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

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Job summary

Education plays a significant role in the current context and future ambitions of the Trust. The Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) for placement expansion will continue to focus on maintaining a sustainable CLiP model, and include other placement models in addition to supporting our wards with their clinical expansion, supervision methods and models to support our pre-registration learners.

The Trust wants to ensure a high-quality clinical learning environment is provided through support, educational input and developmental activities for nursing students and practice-based assessors and supervisors. The role aims to enhance the quality of the practice learning experience by providing expansion to clinical placements on ward areas within the practice environment. The role will positively contribute to the future development of the learning environment, clinical placement expansion and the positive clinical placement experience of learners at PAHT.

The role will require excellent communication between numerous stakeholders; PAHT practice areas, partner Universities/Education providers. It will also require the successful applicant to lead on change and support clinical areas through this change.

This role will work directly with nursing students on clinical placement, positively contributing to the expansion of the future workforce,support stakeholders as an additional pastoral mentorand build on our education plans.

Main duties of the job

Key aims of the role are to:

Focus on maintaining a sustainable CLiP model for students within our organisation

Support the supervisors and assessors as an additional pastoral advisor.

Ensure that the standards and values required for learning, development and assessment are embedded and maintained into everyday clinical practice.

Work across professional boundaries to ensure that all nursing students on placement within the Trust receive the best possible education experience that supports the highest standard of learning and development.

Educate teams on the ward about the placement models and practices that will support increasing the number of placements available at PAHT

Enhance the clinical learning environment by maintaining sustainable placement models across all placement areas within the trust; to reflect the patient journey, increase the student's learning experience and ultimately meet the requirements of the placement expansion project.

Enhance the practice learning environment by expanding clinical placements across all wards to continue to meet the requirements of the placement expansion project.

Provide support to staff, actively engaged with the development of students across the trust.

Support teams with adhering to equality, diversity and inclusion best practice to support the experiences of our students and individuals working alongside them.

About us

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart- Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence- Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration- Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Date posted

06 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

292-6830832-CORP

Job locations

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at anytime.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at anytime.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent
  • Professional registration e.g. NMC
  • Active practice assessor or supervisor in a clinical area

Desirable

  • Teaching/Education qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of teaching, supervision and assessing healthcare students in practice settings
  • Experience of working in clinical environment
  • Experienced practice assessor and/or supervisor in the clinical environment

Desirable

  • Experience of undertaking training needs analyses
  • Experience with recruitment, retention and interview processes

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of the clinical expansion ideals and the associated expansion models currently used e.g. CLiP and hub and spoke
  • Ablility to act as a team leader to an identified group of staff, monitoring and documenting the development of their clinical skills
  • Understanding and/or experience of imbedding equality diversity and inclusion into your teaching to ensure that learners of all abilities and physical needs can access the same learning and clinical placement opportunities available.

Desirable

  • Specific specialist knowledge of pre-registration education programmes at both clinical and education levels
  • Knowledge and experience of designing and delivering training courses

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • To take a leadership role in crisis situations, resolving problems across the directorate as necessary
  • Able to solve problems
  • To communicate varied and complicated information (verbally and in writing) in a way that is understood and gets the important facts across

Desirable

  • Ability to dealing with busy/challenging managers, staff and students, remaining polite and courteous at all times
  • Ability to influence service leads and practice assessors and practice supervisors to offer placements in times of great demands on clinicians and services and encouraging them to overcome barriers such as lack of funding, time, and space for student placements.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent
  • Professional registration e.g. NMC
  • Active practice assessor or supervisor in a clinical area

Desirable

  • Teaching/Education qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of teaching, supervision and assessing healthcare students in practice settings
  • Experience of working in clinical environment
  • Experienced practice assessor and/or supervisor in the clinical environment

Desirable

  • Experience of undertaking training needs analyses
  • Experience with recruitment, retention and interview processes

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of the clinical expansion ideals and the associated expansion models currently used e.g. CLiP and hub and spoke
  • Ablility to act as a team leader to an identified group of staff, monitoring and documenting the development of their clinical skills
  • Understanding and/or experience of imbedding equality diversity and inclusion into your teaching to ensure that learners of all abilities and physical needs can access the same learning and clinical placement opportunities available.

Desirable

  • Specific specialist knowledge of pre-registration education programmes at both clinical and education levels
  • Knowledge and experience of designing and delivering training courses

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • To take a leadership role in crisis situations, resolving problems across the directorate as necessary
  • Able to solve problems
  • To communicate varied and complicated information (verbally and in writing) in a way that is understood and gets the important facts across

Desirable

  • Ability to dealing with busy/challenging managers, staff and students, remaining polite and courteous at all times
  • Ability to influence service leads and practice assessors and practice supervisors to offer placements in times of great demands on clinicians and services and encouraging them to overcome barriers such as lack of funding, time, and space for student placements.

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).

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.

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

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Educational Lead: Non-Medical

Nneka Smith

nneka.smith@nhs.net

01279978816

Date posted

06 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

292-6830832-CORP

Job locations

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


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