Practice Educator

1 week ago

Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Bedfordshire Hospitals are looking to recruit two Band 6 Clinical Educators to join the Pre-Registration Education team.

The successful applicants will have a passion for education and developing students and trust staff. They will have a broad range of acute hospital experience and clinical skills, experience of supporting learners and developing learning plans for learners that are experiences difficulties.

The post holders will be based in the Pre Registration team but will also support other education workstreams such at preceptorship, overseas nursing, support workers, talent for care and apprenticeships.

**JOB SUMMARY**:

- To deliver clinical skills and vocational training programmes for pre-professional, pre-registration, preceptees and overseas nurse recruits, to support their achievement of identified training and competency requirements.
- To actively promote patient safety and through the facilitation of training programmes, to ensure that learning reflects improvements to the patient experience.
- To support the delivery of objectives for a designated work stream within Bedfordshire Hospitals. The post holder will be based on either the Luton and Dunstable or Bedford Hospital site, but expected to work across the Trust and including off site locations.

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**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Clinical Skills Training
- Work with the clinical educators, operational managers and supervisors to assess the clinical and non-clinical skills/learning needs within the Trust; ensuring departmental requirements and competencies are clear and inform the training needs analysis for that area.
- To support / contribute to the audit of training needs of staff in conjunction with clinical educators, practice development nurses and service managers to ensure the competency based training programmes are appropriate and meet the needs of staff.
- Support managers in monitoring the performance of all learners; ensuring they have a clear induction and clinical competencies. They will ensure that each learner is monitored for safe practice and assessed against the Trust and national standards.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of Trust strategies and initiatives by delivering and evaluating appropriate training packages and competency assessments.
- To work as a member of the Trust education team delivering classroom training on each of the programmes associated with pre-professional, pre-registration, preceptorship or overseas nurse recruits.
- To actively encourage and role model best practice on the wards with multi-professional staff.
- To contribute to the quality control aspects of all training provision within the Trust, i.e. ensuring that the standard of work based learning portfolios are maintained and that support of learners is provided.

Managerial Responsibilities
- Maintain awareness of the other work streams and projects and cross cover colleagues as required.
- Being flexible, to work with learners out of hours or when required, work as part of the team in a clinical area, i.e. when the hospital is in escalation.
- While working in the clinical environment escalate/address any concerns regarding practice with the appropriate departmental manager and Divisional Matron.
- Maintain training records of staff progress against the educational key performance indicators and contribute to the training reports to the board.
- To take part in sharing good practice days for multi-professional staff, raising awareness of development opportunities both internally and externally including careers fairs.
- To gain accreditation with relevant training institutes to ensure quality standards are evident in internal training programmes.
- To participate in recruitment and selection of staff including Student Nurses, Overseas nurses and Return to Practice students as and when appropriate.
- To be actively involved in promoting good communication between wards/departments.

Education, Training and Development of Staff
- To support the on-going Trust programmes, including the induction programme for both registered and unregistered staff.
- To provide workshops for nursing, midwifery and allied health professional staff and students to update their practice or learn new skills.
- To provide approved training programmes using the latest research, developing resources and presentations. For those programmes they are responsible for, continually evaluate them using feedback to further developmental opportunities.
- Ensure that procedures for extending the role of the nurse / AHP and the scope of professional practice are implemented and revised regularly.

Professional and Legal Responsibilities
- To develop the role of clinical expert in providing care and advice on related problems and to take responsibility for own professional development, undertaking appropriate act

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