Digital Clinical Placement Programme Leader

Job responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes.

The post holder will hold a Masters level or equivalent qualification in a health and / or social care profession. They will demonstrate a strong portfolio of specialist knowledge, skills, and capabilities in technological teaching methodologies and will hold specialist clinical education qualifications. They will be required to act with autonomy and will make critical and independent decisions to develop digital clinical placement programmes.

The post holder will independently interpret and implement digital clinical placement standard operating procedures that comply with health and social care regulations and legislation. They will manage clinical educators, facilitators, coaches, and learners on their programmes. This includes substantive and temporary employees.

The post holder will act as a Professional Role Model and will demonstrate highly effective leadership qualities and behaviours. They will act as a reflective practitioner and utilise reflexivity to maintain positive work relationships.

Leadership and Consultancy

The post holder is required to work with multiple agencies across health and social care systems at a local, regional, and national level. They are required to strategically analyse, evaluate, and present highly complex and sensitive educational related data, to influence systems leaders to make informed decisions on new educational programmes that would be adopted by the National Digital Clinical Placement Model.

They are required to apply political astuteness and persuasion skills to optimise programme design that will lead to improved learners experience, accessibility, and inclusivity.

The post holder will be operating in highly complex and unpredictable situations that will require them to deconstruct and reconstruct complex facts, information and human factors that promotes and maintain highly effective teaching and learning paradigms. Where environments present uncertainty, the postholder will draw their expert knowledge to develop novel solutions to complex decision making.

They will be required to design, implement, and evaluate digital clinical placement programmes that are cost efficient, effective and have long term sustainability. The post holder will create and manage the digital clinical placement programmes and develop and mature the operational framework to assure quality and performance.

Stakeholder Involvement and Support

The post holder is required to engage with and support patients, families, and charities to share their lived experiences of receiving care. This will include agreements of multi-media resources to capture stakeholder stories in compliance with information governance.

They will be responsible for digital clinical programmes and will line manage the team members involved in the programme design and delivery, in addition to being responsible for learners across diverse programmes. This includes performance, progression, workplace adjustments and risk assessments.

Digital Clinical Placement Program Design and Portfolio

The post holder will be responsible for digital clinical placement programme design, including human resource expenditure, project assets, education tariffs, cost improvements and sustainability. They will take budgetary responsibility for their programme.

They will manage their individual or portfolio programmes and will balance digital placement demands with financial competing factors.

In the design and delivery of Digital Clinical Placement programmes the postholder will occasionally require high level of concentration, following subject matter and learner interest. They will respond to personal and professional needs and managing expectations to cultivate and maintain a psychologically safe teaching and learning environment.

The post holder will be responsible for managing and supporting diverse learners with varied and complex learning needs, undertaking clinical learning of emotive clinical topics. They will also manage the project team and wider stakeholders emotional needs.

The post holder will be responsible for measures to identify and measure stakeholder emotional responses on a virtual learning platform and will implement actions to maintain emotional safety and associate support services. Strategies include wellbeing support, coaching supervision, and risk assessments.

Information Governance and Quality Assurance

The post holder will maintain data, and data storage of educational activity including personal information. The post holder will utilise software information technology programmes, such as surveys, AI, project management systems and excel to produce, monitor, and evaluate teaching and learning activity in a digital environment.

They will take responsibility for the implementation and compliance of specialist digital clinical placement policies and procedures in line with national legislation and regulations.

They will be responsible to ensure that all project team members under their digital clinical placement programmes are aware of and comply with quality standards. The post holder will maintain high levels of accountability to quality standards and will propose quality reviews in line with service improvements and relevant risk assessments.

The post holder will maintain and undertake educational service reviews, to monitor and maintain high quality and standards. They will share intelligence across internal and external stakeholders to inform educational activity and service development. This will include digital clinical placement activity and effectiveness dissemination through publication, conferences, and marketing.

The post holder is accountable to uphold NHS Constitution and be an exemplar for NHS ethic leadership quality and trust values and behaviours.

Health and Safety

The post holder is required to work on Visual Display Unit equipment continuously when delivery digital clinical placements and will use a standard keyboard and visual display units to share technological teaching and learning instruments. They will frequently deliver digital clinical placements, from a sitting or standing position.

They will monitor their health and safety and associated risk assessments, to ensure that ergonomic appropriateness of their work environment. The post holder will work virtually and on site, based on duty requirements.

Qualifications

Essential

• Master Level or equivalent health and / or social care qualification.
• Post graduate education and development qualification

Desirable

• Pg Cert Education
• NHS Leadership qualification
• Coaching qualification
• Action learning set facilitator
• Clinical supervisor / Schwartz / 360 leadership facilitator

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience designing and implementing high quality educational programmes.
• Experience of virtual teaching and learning platforms
• Managing and leading teams

Desirable

• Work Based Mentor
• Clinical Leadership
• Clinical Educator
• Budget Management

Skills

Essential

• Educational material design and delivery
• Facilitation, teaching, mentoring, and coaching.
• Service improvement and project planning
• Reflexive practitioner

Desirable

• Service improvement, project planning, evaluation, and dissemination.
• Advanced Communicator
• Grant writing
• Writing for publication

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of key educational paradigms including andragogy and pedagogy teaching and learning strategies
• Risk Assessment and implementation of reasonable adjustments

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge in diverse learner requirements, inclusivity and responsive to complex cohort individualised needs

Values

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours in line with NHS constitution and fundamental British values
• Advocate and role model health and social care careers
• Equality and diversity leadership

Desirable

• Social Responsibility
• Equality and diversity championing, example, gender and social inclusion

Other

Essential

• Example: special requirements attached to the post - flexible working, ability to travel for conference presentations
• Commitment to personal and professional growth across 4 pillars of professional practice

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).