Significant Clinical Facilitator

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Be involved in the training and development of work-based learning for care home staff
• Provide assessment support to the needs of care home staff
• Maintains communication networks to support identified care home staff, community nursing staff and hospital multi-disciplinary teams to support work-based learners.
• Take opportunities to train and reflect on practice within the teams and alongside other teams to promote holistic care to service users.
• Work alongside staff in practice (care homes) to support the development of skills and competencies in the workplace.
• To use toolkit to support care workers to identify the health needs of residents and an interactive training session delivered by healthcare professionals in the care home setting.
• Participate in reflective practice with multi-disciplinary teams
• Work in a multi-disciplinary way to develop processes to support the Learning environment.
• Seek opportunities to engage in research, attend training, sharing knowledge with the team leading to change of practice.
• Keep up to date with trust policies, follow guidelines and report accidents/incidents in line with trust policy.
• Understand and implement change in line with national and local policy.
• Monitor fairness and consistency in all work alongside with others
• Seek opportunities to develop the assessment process and documentation through training.
• Review with colleagues the suitability of existing placements, learning opportunities and ensuring that competencies are completed.
• Provide accurate advice and information to multi-disciplinary teams whilst the work-based learner is with them
• Escalate any concerns about the academic or clinical work of a member of staff through the appropriate channels

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of Care and Assessment in Learning Disability
• Knowledge of NHS and NMC Nursing Education Agenda

Experience

Essential

• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working and supporting learners in practice

Skills

Essential

• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively

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).

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

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Waltham Forest Learning Disability Team

30 Coleridge Road

Walthamstow

E17 6QU

Employer's website

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