Clinical Nurse Educator- Emergency Departments, Band 6

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key relationships & Communication

The Practice Educator is required to:

- Work collaboratively within a highly motivated, skilled and engaged team committed to delivering best care for everyone.

- Communicate complex messages effectively and productively with a range of staff at all levels in the Trust as well as with our partnering organisations in health and education.

- Build and sustain successful working relationships with colleagues within the department and the wider leadership team and trust.

- Provide, receive and interpret information to and from the following if needed from the Emergency department Practice development lead.

- Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing for Unscheduled care

- Emergency Department Matron

- Practice Educator Emergency Department Lead

- Practice Educator Band 6

- Patient safety and clinical risk lead

- Senior Sister Emergency Department

- Clinical Band 6 Sister/ Charge Nurse

- Rapid Clinical Practitioner

- Professional Education Manager

- Practice Education Facilitators

- Professional Education Practitioners

- Practice Educators

- Apprenticeships & Careers team manager

- Apprenticeships & Careers team

- Director and Deputy Director Quality and Nursing

- Senior management for all professions and departments

- Other (including external) Educational Providers

- Health Education England

- NMC

- The wider Gloucestershire Health Community

- External Organisations including other Health Service providers and Government funding agencies

Key Deliverables

- Ensure accurate records of training and competencies are undertaken and maintained

- Manage and maintain training equipment.

- Develop teaching material based on current departmental trends.

- Support new staff with their transition into the Emergency Departments.

Patient care

- Demonstrate and promote a patient centred style of clinical practice that is caring, compassionate and embodies our vision of best care for everyone.

Professional practice

- Ensure clinical and educational practice is evidence based or peer reviewed best practice.

- Be competent in the use of all relevant Trust IT systems including the use of electronic patient record, email, social media and Microsoft.

- Maintain regular use of emails to keep abreast of information disseminated in the Trust.

- Adhere to the NMC code of practice at all times and operate within the NMC scope of professional practice.

- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of Accountability, responsibility and Duty of Care and work towards the provision of support and education for less experienced and non-registered staff on the implications for practice.

Leadership and management

- Comply with Trust and Departmental policies and procedures e.g. Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Manual Handling, clinical equipment competency, risk management, Data Protection Acts and patient confidentiality at all times. This will include demonstrating compliance with the terms of all safeguarding policies and processes relevant to the safeguarding of adults and children in the care of GHNHSFT and to undergo regular mandatory training concerned with safeguarding matters.

- Report near misses and untoward incidents, complaints, clinical emergencies, injury or medicine administration errors as detailed in the departmental and Trust protocols. Assist lead staff in investigating incidents as required.

- Ensure a smart, professional image that enhances the public perception of the Trust and the professionalism of its staff is portrayed.

Education and training

- Demonstrate a commitment to research-based practice and clinical educational excellence in all service provision

- Support research-based change to improve patient centred care

- Remain up-to-date and a strong positive role model in all mandatory training and appraisal reviews as required for self and the team

Improving quality and developing practice

- Comply with requirements to register with the NMC and identify own learning needs and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.

- Regularly review education and training delivered to ensure it remains relevant, innovative and underpinned with research in support of our Trusts aspirations to achieve an Outstanding CQC rating and excellence in education as a University Hospital.

- Actively promote the Gloucestershire Quality and Service Improvement Academy throughout the Clinical Skills / Professional Education Team at Bronze, Silver or Gold levels

- Introduce innovative ways of working to the service that incorporate digital technologies; this with a view to streamlining, simplifying, achieving cost-efficiencies or making the learning process more enjoyable and effective for our workforce.

- Write, maintain and ensure implementation of relevant policies/protocols/ guidelines relevant to the education, learning and development.

- Identify own development needs, aligning these to service requirements and personal aspirations. Proactively develop and improve own practice using all available resources

- Openly question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with an active NMC pin.
• Evidence of a recognised practice assessor/ supervisor qualification (PG Cert, ENB 998/ Teaching & Assessing in Practice / FLAP / FLIP, PA/PS Training) with evidence of contribution to the development of clinical practice, education and training based on knowledge acquired.

Experience/Skill

Essential

• Experience of working in an acute clinical environment within unscheduled care supervising, assessing, coaching, supporting and teaching others.
• Triage Training
• Immediate Life Support

Desirable

• Previous experience in healthcare education.
• Advanced Life Support
• Paediatric Life Support

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrates ability to question and challenge clinical and education practice in a constructive way so that standards are continually evaluated and improved.
• Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice in conjunction with the wider team.
• Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload and be able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
• Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.

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

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide (Gloucester Royal Hospital & Cheltenham General Hospital)

Gloucestershire

GL1 3NN

Employer's website

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