Community Learning Lead

North Warwickshire District / Community Nursing teams are excited to offer a new and exciting role to an experienced nurse who holds an interest in supporting learners in practice within the community setting to grow a highly competent, supported, and caring workforce for the future.

You must be a professional role model demonstrating excellent leadership and coaching skills who has taught, mentored, and assessed learners in practice.

This will involve assessment, supervision, feedback, performance management and work allocation. Your role will have the responsibility for ensuring the area is a positive learning environment and with successful learning outcomes.

You will contribute to the future workforce planning and pathway development of community services and implement service changes. The role will also require you to support the team clinically with 20% face to face patient contact.

The Community Learning Lead (CLL) will identify and support training needs, plan, implement and evaluate education activities for trainees, new starters and existing practitioners within Theatre Services.

The post holder will demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills commensurate with a clinical expert and effective leader; serve as a role model; an agent of change and a facilitator of work-based learning.

Explicit within the role and the outcomes required of it, the CLL will work collegiately to ensure standards are established, implemented and sustained, particularly those related to staff knowledge, skills development and patient safety by participating in audits.

The CLL will work 80% of their time clinically working with trainees, new starters and existing staff and 20% supporting Lead Practitioner in identifying training and education needs and planning, implementing and evaluating education activities in their clinical area of practice.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Measurable Result Areas

The Community Learning Lead will support the development of all Theatre Practitioners, Theatre Support Staff and Trainees by:
Working autonomously as a visible and accessible resource for practice based staff. Maintaining professional standards of Conduct to sustain staff and public confidence in accordance with the NMC and HCPC.

Facilitate the on-going development and implementation of education initiatives in particular the orientation, preceptorship and mentorship of Trainees and new starters.

Develop, deliver and evaluate formal / informal teaching sessions and work based learning programmes in order to support the professional and practice development of both registered and non-registered practitioners.

Attend relevant committees / groups in the absence of Lead Practitioner in order to influence and progress development of professional practice.

Leading and / or contributing towards initiatives that result in changes to existing practice and systems of professional working. Supporting staff of all grades with using reflective and quality improvement principles to adapt to changes in practice.

Actively participating and representing the organisation at internal /external forums (Higher Education Institutes) pertinent to area of work stream focus.

Contribute to the development and review of policies, procedures, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), care pathways and protocols ensuring they meet national. Local and professional criteria.

Assist with appropriate selection and recruitment within the Theatre Workforce, participating in appropriate interview panels and supporting the development of recruitment methods in line with a reflective culture.

Clinical / Leadership

Maintain clinical skills and competences in order to undertake safe and effective direct clinical care of patients when required, either to enable implementation of aspects of this role or to support service priorities when need arises. This includes rotation to Day Surgery Unit / Main Theatre and out of hours activity.

Assist Team leaders to support service priorities.

Provide clinical management of the