Assistant Clinical Skills Trainer

Clinical staff are essential to keep our NHS running effectively and efficiently, training is crucial to ensure skills are up to date and that staff feel like they are supported.

Do you want to be part of something bigger?

We are seeking an Assistant Clinical Roles Trainer to join our team at Musgrove Park Hospital. Working with clinical departments, universities and the recruitment team, you will be providing staff with training to enable them to safely complete their roles and develop their skills and careers.

This role will include working across learning and development to assist in the delivery of a wide range of clinical skills training including NEWS 2, sepsis, venepuncture, cannulation, wound care, catheter care and more.

Within the development team, we pride ourselves in supporting and training staff to provide outstanding care to all patients in a safe environment. We are seeking a like-minded individual that will continue to offer our incredible colleagues within the Trust with the support and training opportunities that they require...

If this sounds like you, please read on

Providing established and supported clinical skills training in a class room / virtual or clinical environment.

Providing a professional role model for all colleagues attending inductions and training.

Assessing and delivering developmental feedback to learners and their departments.

Guiding new health care support workers through completion of their Care certificate.

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working,fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progressionand regular conversations, not to mention ourBlue Light CardandNHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone’s throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will be to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone

**Job Title**:
Clinical skills trainer

**Band**:
Band 3

**Directorate**:
Corporate/People Services

**Department**:
Learning & Development

**Base**:
Musgrove Park Hospital

**Responsible To**:
Sarah Harris Curriculum manager

**Accountable To**:
Wendy Powell Head of Learning & Development

1. Job Purpose

**To work under the supervision of the curriculum manager to**:

- Participate in the delivery of patient care with identified learners (learners identified as Apprentices, Trainee Assistant Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners, Trainee Nursing Associates, Nursing Associates, EU and non EU nurses awaiting NMC registration
- Deliver established teaching topics to individuals/groups of learners in various settings: ward / classroom / virtual
- Contribute towards ward/department organization
- Assisting in the induction, supervision, and training of: Healthcare Support Workers at Band 2 & 3s, student Assistant Practitioners & TNA’s and student nurses with the training of the National Early Warning Scoring system (NEWS), fluid balance, vital signs, SBAR and Sepsis training and delivery of patient care.
- Assess within established frameworks (eg Care Certificate)

**Responsibilities**:
Communication & Working Relationships
- Develop communication skills to convey complex and sensitive information effectively to learners, managers, patients, carers and other staff, overcoming any barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events
- Communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately with the multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers
- Communicate Clinical skills training as directed within policy/protocol
- Respond appropriately to queries, take phone messages and pass on written and verbal information to patients/ learners or teams.
- Provide relevant information to learners, managers, patients, and colleagues
- Complete documentation accurately and contribute to reports of patients’ activity and progress, recognizing that the qualified nurse/midwife has personal accountability for entries to patient records made by others under their supervision
- Give developmental feedback on patient care and activities to relevant healthcare professionals
- Maintain patient confidentiality
- Attend regular team meetings

Planning & Organization
- Plans own workload in conjunction with service needs and under guidance from the service leads in learning and development.
- Contribute to care planning and review and reporting all the outcomes and any concerns of all patient care duties personally undertaken and to do this clearly and promptly to the registered Nurse, Midwife or Therapist, documenting as req