Clinical Skills Administrator and Assistant 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**:
The Learning and Development Department is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Clinical Skills Administrator and Assistant Trainer to join the Clinical Skills team. You should have an interest in training and education.

You will have a commitment to supporting high quality training on a range of different clinical skills teaching programmes.

You should be flexible, motivated and a team player. This is an excellent opportunity for a Nursing Associate, Assistant Practitioner or Healthcare Assistant, with an interest in developing their teaching and training skills, as well as enhancing their knowledge in administrative duties

An individually tailored induction and development programme will be made available.

You will be required to work at multiple care organisations across the Northern Care Alliance, on a 12 month fixed term contract or secondment.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Undertaking and co-ordinating a high level administrative and assistant service to the clinical skills team and practice trainers in practice across the full range of their responsibilities and duties. This includes attendance at meetings and taking and transcribing minutes, diary management, organising timetables, managing office systems, collating data, Intranet maintenance and creating documents under the direction of the relevant clinical leads.
- Support in the delivery of Clinical Skills Training within own scope of practice in both the clinical and classroom environment.
- Accountable for own actions and able to plan and organise own time, with reference to Line Manager when necessary.
- To exercise judgement in making assessments of urgent or sensitive issues either by dealing with them appropriately or ensuring they are brought to the attention of the Practice Development Nurse / Clinical Skills Business partner.

**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**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Care certificate/Equivalent

**Desirable criteria**:

- NVQ Level 3 in Healthcare/Equivalent

**Clinical Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Clinical experience working as a Nursing Associate or Assistant Practitioner or Health Care Assistant or Senior Care Support Worker

**Knowledge & Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Computer literate - MS Outlook/Word/PowerPoint/Excel

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of supporting learners & students

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