Job responsibilities
Communication & Working Relationships
Develops and maintains effective working relationships
with managers, staff and their representatives.
Develops and maintains effective communications with pre-registration
students and new members of staff entering their professional roles.
Develops and maintains effective communications with
partner and external organisations with regard to local and regional placements
and practice education programmes.
Maintains effective communications with the University
of Plymouth
and the Open University regarding the allocation of students to practice
placements.
Develops and increases communication skills between
disparate staff groups to enhance clinical decision making and the support of
students and preceptees when joining the organisation.
Provides managers and staff with advice and guidance on
matters relating to practice development, the trusts programme, policy and
approach and any training
available.
Takes part in team meetings, Personal Development
Reviews, personal development planning, 1:1 supervision meetings etc.
Deal with
sensitive situations involving students on placement and seek guidance from
other Workforce colleagues as appropriate.
Communicates with others in relation to practice education
initiatives as required.
Planning & Organisation
Effectively promote the redesign and on-going improvement
of approaches and processes of delivering student placements and practice
development programmes, through articulating national, organisational and
local vision for the future delivery of this agenda.
Co-ordination of student placements for University of Plymouth and Open
University students.
Review and evaluate the practice development
programmes, actively promoting understanding across the organisation of these
programmes and key responsibilities for those involved in the process.
Monitor a formal clinical skills programme for all
learners to be achieved within practice.
Take part in
annual Personal Development Reviews, aligning personal objectives with
organisational objectives supporting the senior management team.
Support the Workforce
and Organisational Development team in all areas of work relating to student
placements, preceptorship and other practice education initiatives where required.
Lead on training in area of expertise and engage relevant
team members where appropriate.
Co-ordinate and
maintain a register of placement and sign off mentors within the Trust and
ensure that the Trust has sufficiently trained mentors within areas that have
student placements.
Responsibility for
Judgement & Analysis
Provides guidance, training
and mentoring for all members of staff involved in student placements and practice
education. This may include indicating useful sources of information/training, teaching new techniques or skills,
providing guidance on dealing with the situational aspects of the job or
encouragement to learn particularly useful skills.
Recognises areas of
work through day to day activities that could be undertaken as part of remit
if relevant.
Identify mistakes and errors made in current working practices and
review and redesign processes requiring improvement, while also addressing
any training and development
requirements of self of colleagues.
Assesses
information requirements against desired outcomes in order to gather or
request high quality, robust information that will produce the answers
required.
Challenges any data anomalies recognised through report analysis,
through discussion with relevant leads and with staff members responsible for
management of the information on a day to day basis.
Undertakes audits,
training needs analysis, surveys, self-assessments in order to collate and
analyse progress, need, gaps in service etc.
Interprets complex
information which relates to staff development and ensure this is
communicated effectively to the line manager, project team and others as
required.
Undertakes analysis
of information interpreting any trends, patterns, gaps and preparing this in
presentation to communicate back to information requester.
Responsibility for
Patient/Client Care, Treatment & Therapy
There is no
responsibility for patient/client care, treatment or therapy, however the
postholder will be required to coordinate a trustwide programme that supports
the patient safety agenda in assuring that staff are confident, competent and
appropriately skilled when starting new roles with the organisation.
They will also be expected to maintain their knowledge, skills and professional
registration which may include an agreed level of annualised clinical
activity hours involving patient care and treatment.
Policy, Service, Research & Development
Responsibility
Review
local, regional or national guidance, best practice and case studies to
appraise development opportunities and suggest areas for implementation
within this organisation where appropriate. Ensure views of stakeholders are
fed into process of implementation.
Actively
seek out and interpret national policy, guidance and examples of best
practice with regard to student placement and practice education programmes
nationally. Review this information and adopt it as appropriate.
Review
and update the current policies in relation practice education and engage with
as many relevant staff as possible in the process of review and planning of
implementation.
Develop
high standards of practice throughout trust through promotion of legislation,
guidance and models of best practice identified through research and reading.
Gain peer support where required from local, regional or even national
colleagues where relevant and appropriate.
Have a good understanding of any
local relevant policies such as recruitment, Supervision and PDR, working
time directive etc. Ensures that training is delivered within these frameworks and
knowledge base.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment &
Other Resources
Ensures a consistent and high quality
approach to the coordination of workshops and events, to include the
provision and set up and pack up of required equipment, such as laptops,
projectors, etc.
Responsible for the personal use of IT
and training equipment.
Responsible for the review and
updating of ARC database that holds information on student placements and
allocations, in conjunction with the University of Plymouth.
Responsibility for
Supervision, Leadership & Management
This post has no
line management responsibility.
Information Resources & Administrative
Duties
Assesses
information requirements against desired outcomes in order to gather or
request high quality, robust information that will produce the answers
required.
Ensures
all information recorded by self and other individuals has been inputted
accurately and is recorded on the correct information system. Challenges
where this has not happened.
Utilises
existing methods and systems, such as Clinical Information System, Workforce
Information System, training
feedback forms, to extract information where appropriate
If
information is not available for analysis, make suggestions for information
returns in the future.
Undertakes audits, training needs analysis, surveys, self assessments
in order to collate and analyse progress, need, gaps in service etc.
Interpret
complex information which relates to staff development and ensure this is
communicated effectively to the line manager, project team and others as
required.
Undertakes analysis of information
interpreting any trends, patterns, gaps and preparing this in presentation to
communicate back to information requester.
Presents a variety of information back to a variety of
forums, detailing the purpose of the information, the outcomes it has
achieved and the results it presents (for example preceptor / preceptee
numbers per year, training
attendances, levels of feedback etc).
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
Identifies whether some or all of the
skills and training needs are
satisfied by existing training
provided. Ensures access to this training for the service involved and is connected
to the programme.
Able to develop and deliver a programme of training
in a way that is stimulating for the learners, encouraging them to become
involved in the learning experience thus enabling learners to achieve their
ands the organisations learning goals appropriately.
With others, review core training requirements for staff and design and
develop education programmes which may be delivered to staff across the trust
by post holder or by other staff as appropriate.
Has an in depth knowledge and understanding of the organisations
learning and development priorities. Links closely with the wider workforce
team in order to maintain this knowledge and understanding.
To work under own initiative
managing competing demands with only minimal supervision
To actively participate in ones
own professional development, supervision and annual appraisal.
