Education Placement Facilitator

Job Introduction
We are looking for an enthusiastic & innovative NMC or HCPC registered individual to join our Learning Environment team as part of The Learning Enterprise, the education, and training department of HCRG Care Group.

The role is to provide support to enhance a high-quality learning environment experience and placement for all learners. This pivotal role will work with the Senior Learning Environment Lead and Head of Apprenticeships and be the key link between Higher Education Institutes (HEI), NHSE and operational / workforce development groups within HCRG Care Group.

The role will be full time, 37.5 hours a week, working Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm.

Main Responsibilities
- Facilitate the enhancement of a high-quality practice learning experience for all learners which results in HCRG Care Group as a first choice for recruitment of health professional learners on qualification
- Co-ordinate placement planning and implementation.
- Support all placement activity to capitalise on any relationships and synergies between programmes, teams, employers, education providers and other key stakeholders.
- Work closely with the apprenticeships team and wider TLE team to deal with issues and develop improvements to processes.
- Develop and maintain relationships with external partners / providers / employers to maximise practice placement opportunities for applicable educational programmes.

The role requires excellent communication skills to work with Higher Education Institutes to maintain and increase placement activity including reciprocal placement for our internal apprenticeship pathways. You will work with national providers to achieve key performance indicators in relation to education and practice placements.

To support all placement activity, including scoping practice placement position across local services (new and existing) identifying opportunities to increase placement capacity and develop capability, ensuring apprenticeships are included in workforce placement planning.

**Does your drive and passion want you to give colleagues the opportunity to develop their full potential? Then this may be the job for you**

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Package Description
As a Clinical Education Placement Facilitator you’ll be part of our valued team.

You will feel valued as a Clinical Education Placement Facilitator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission