Practice Trainer

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
We are increasing our clinical skills and simulation trainers significantly and have received funding for several new posts - band 6 practice trainers to work across the NCA training and supporting staff to provide the best care for patients.

You should have interest in critical care and posses a wide range of clinical skills and an interest in teaching, training and supporting staff to be the best for patients. You should be an experienced registered nurse or registered health professional for example ODP. Enhanced Care and Trauma experience desirable.

Fixed term contracts or secondments until March 2024
- Car driver essential
- Team player and flexibility essential
- Deliver clinical skills and simulation training to multidisciplinary staff
- Deliver enhanced care training to staff
- Clinicals skills include tracheostomy, ECG, venepuncture and cannulation
- Deliver courses that improve patient care for example sepsis, deteriorating patient
- Maintain meticulous records
- Support staff with learning needs
- Complete a learning needs analysis
- Liaise with all key stakeholders
- Improve the patient experience

**Main duties of the job**:

- Teaching and training of clinical staff in a variety of clinical skills and simulation across the NCA - Trauma/ Enhanced Care
- Developing courses to respond to patient and staff needs
- Evaluating courses and making changes as needed
- Participating in peer review
- Improve the patient experience

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:

- Delivering a wide variety of clinical skills and simulations training across the NCA - Trauma and Enhanced Care
- Maintaining training records
- Supporting staff to deliver high quality patient care
- Completing a learning needs analysis
- Providing reports
- Leasing with all key stakeholders
- Reviewing and improving clinical skills and simulation courses
- Developing new clinical courses to meet service needs
- Delivering ward based training

**Person specification**:
**Experience of teaching/traning**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of teaching & Training

**Desirable criteria**:

- Wide range of clinical skills
- Experience of simulation

**REGISTERED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Registered Health Care professional

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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.