Practice Learning Facilitator - Nursing

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 12 May 2025

Job summary

As a member of the Practice Education Team, your role will be to support Student Nurses within the Trust and will contribute to the development and maintenance of quality assured placements for the full range of students undertaking educational training within the health care community.

You will:

Contribute at a local, regional and national level to quality assurance initiatives relating to practice learning.
Act as a conduit between the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and placement providers from within NHS and non NHS organisations.
Influence the preparation and delivery of educational programmes which impact on the quality of practice learning and student progression in practice.

Main duties of the job

HDFT is a key provider of Pre-registration nurse education across North and West Yorkshire and the North East and as such this role is pivotal in the provision of the future nursing workforce development.

The key functions of the Practice Education Team are to:

Support Practice based Assessors and Supervisors to ensure that student Learning opportunities are explored and utilised
Monitor the quality of practice learning experiences for pre-registration healthcare students.
Support the development of students by participating in clinically based educational teaching
To represent the interests of HDFT in terms of pre-registration education locally and nationally

About us

HDFT is a key provider of Pre-registration nurse education across North Yorkshire and the North East and as such this role is pivotal in the provision of the future nursing workforce development.

Date posted

28 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

421-CORP-2082R

Job locations

Harrogate Hospital

Lancaster Park Road

Harrogate

HG2 7SX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions, please contact Mark Flowers on Mark.Flowers2@nhs.net

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions, please contact Mark Flowers on Mark.Flowers2@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current NMC Registration
Experience of Health Visiting / School Nursing
Minimum of 2 years post registration experience

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 2 years post registration experience

Knowledge

Essential

Awareness of current nursing issues

Desirable

Awareness of pre-registration education for AHP's

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current NMC Registration
Experience of Health Visiting / School Nursing
Minimum of 2 years post registration experience

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 2 years post registration experience

Knowledge

Essential

Awareness of current nursing issues

Desirable

Awareness of pre-registration education for AHP's

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).