Practice Educator In Health (Maternity Cover)

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

You will join a progressive and successful team, delivering a range of full-time and part-time programmes within the Faculty of Health. The successful individual will apply their knowledge and expertise of the care and health sciences industry across a range of vocational and work-based programmes.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As post-holder, you will be responsible to the Curriculum Coordinator, and ultimately to the Head of Area, for the following:

• High-quality, innovative teaching, learning, assessment, and internal moderation across a range of vocational and work-based learning courses.
• Assessing upon a range of accredited programmes across Health and Social Care, as required, delivering the learning aims of students. This may be achieved through general teaching, one-toone tutorial, classroom style workshops, observation, reviews, and the assessment of students in the College or in the workplace.
• To course lead vocational and work-based learning programme(s) of study for learners in the Health and Social Care division, ensuring high levels of achievement and success.
• To effectively support other areas of curriculum, where business need dictates, which may include adult and full-time provisions to ensure high levels of learner / apprentice success and progression.
• To review and adapt curriculum offers to reflect new delivery modes and responses to agendas such as unemployment, retraining and wellbeing.
• Contributing to the delivery, tracking, and monitoring of key skill performance amongst cohorts of students in the Faculty of Health. Where required, to work with the apprenticeship on-boarding team to ensure that learners complete an effective and robust induction process.
• To identify and implement new initiatives that will exploit the use of College facilities and engagement with the wider community.
• To deliver an exceptional learner experience through the delivery of outstanding teaching, learning and assessment leading to positive achievement outcomes and progression on to higher levels of study, employment, or apprenticeships.
• To undertake responsibilities for assisting in the course management of a designated course, being responsible for the application of awarding/validating body regulations and procedures and upholding academic standards.
• Grow long-term relationships with clients and employers, within the healthcare sector, to capitalise on partnership opportunities for learners.
• Assisting students in their progression to Higher Education and / or employment.
• Contributing to the development and the continual improvement of courses, coordinating effectively with both staff and students.
• To carry out periodic evaluation and monitoring of the quality of provision in line with the quality assurance calendar.
• Being proactive in marketing / liaising with sector representatives, and employers, with the objective of developing and enhancing programmes of study, ensuring targeted levels of recruitment, establishing strong partnership links, and raising the profile of the division.

GENERIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESIn addition to the requirements of the post above, all academic staff are required to:

• Complete all associated organisation / administrative work, preparation, internal verification and marking.
• Deal with immediate student disciplinary and welfare problems.
• Keep and maintain specified student and class records.
• Plan, prepare, develop, and evaluate courses and course materials, and supervise course provisions, where appropriate.
• Participate in programme / school / college activities, as requested, including parents evenings.
• Participate and undertake Staff Appraisal and in-service training, based upon an assessment of individual service needs.
• Meet the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Colleges Health and Safety Policies.
• Undertake individual and / or collaborative research and consultancy work agreed by Weston College management, as part of the Practice Educator in Health (WBL)s current duties.
• Be prepared to operate on a flexible year, as required. Academic staff will normally be expected to work not more than two evenings per week, on average.
• To take responsibility for your Continued Professional Development (CPD) to ensure that you attend regular courses, conferences and keep an up-to-date file of your CPD achievements.
• To keep up to date knowledge and understanding of trends and best practices of healthcare aligned to the sector.
• Comply with Information Security requirements in line with College policy.
• Undertake such other duties as may be reasonably required, commensurate with the grade of the appointment.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Working knowledge of the Health and Social Care industry, specifically within the Health sector.
• Relevant medical and/or clinical occupational experience.
• Understanding and experience of key health and social care practices to effectively teach and monitor student performance and progress.

Desirable

• Relevant successful teaching experience.
• Knowledge and experience of current teaching and learning strategies.
• Experience of working with regulatory awarding organisations or accrediting bodies (e.g., membership of a special interest group, advising bodies on policy etc.)

Qualifications

Desirable

• A degree in Health or Social Care, or Professional Qualification, which is appropriate to the work.
• Teaching Qualification - All candidates for teaching posts must possess a
• recognised Teaching Qualification or be prepared to gain this Qualification within the first two years of service, with the assistance of the College.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Weston College

Address

Knightstone Campus

Knightstone Road

Weston-super-Mare

North Somerset

BS23 2AL

Employer's website

https://www.weston.ac.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)