Clinical Practice Facilitator

As a member of the Corporate Nursing Team, you will work closely with colleagues to support a range of professionals and learner groups, with a key focus on developing and maintaining quality learning environments within the Trust. Your role is key to ensuring learners are fit for purpose at the point of registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
This role will primarily be site based (although some cross site cover may be required) and the focus will be working with individuals undertaking a pre-registration Nursing programme within an Adult acute setting.
**Your role is to**: support the learner journey by participating in the HEI recruitment process; work in partnership to ensure a quality supportive learning environment; ensure consistent support and guidance is available within clinical settings that enables learners to meet the NMC requirement to become a professional registrant and remain in the Trust on qualification. You will work in clinical practice alongside learners and their practice supervisors / assessor in order to support and ensure robust assessment and appropriate attrition.
You will participate in joint working with external key stakeholders such as the Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) and local partners in meeting national guidance and recommendations from Health Education England (HEE), the NMC, NHS Improvement and the Integrated Care Systems (ICS) to support the learner journey, including the mapping of placements / placement pathways, and academic study. Reporting data as required on key performance indicators set by the Trust and national bodies.
You will work in association with Clinical Practice Facilitator (CPF) and HEI colleagues to:
Maintain an accurate record of practice supervisors / assessors
Facilitate and deliver training for practice supervisors / assessors / clinical areas
Maintain Practice Learning Environment Audits
Map placements
Identify learning opportunities to enrich the learner experience
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream
To organise the educational activities of individual pre and post registration learners, by working collaboratively with the HEI to promote evidenced based learning in the development of practice, encompassing local and national service objectives.
To participate in curriculum planning and NMC validation events with HEIs.
To work in partnership with the Trust and HEI(s) to identify, audit and assess areas that facilitate learning.
To sustain effective channels of communication between HEI’s and Trust staff.
To create practice-based opportunities for learning, assisting learners to make the connection between theory and practice.
To ensure records of attendance at pre-registration learning opportunities within the Trust are maintained.
To provide a safe and effective clinical learning environment across clinical placements, extending this to facilitation of placements for external requests (Partnership organisations or individuals) where able and appropriate.
To provide clinical and professional advice relating to pre-registration learners. Ensuring local placement issues are identified, communicated and resolved in a timely manner.