Clinical Education Facilitator for Children and

The main purpose of this role is to create and promote conducive learning environment that optimises safe delivery of enhanced nursing care to Children and Young people (CYP) requiring orthopaedic and musculoskeletal care. To support efficient and effective clinical care for CYP and families in order to achieve best outcome and experiences of care.

Are you passionate about staff development, best and evidence based knowledge and skills? Are you motivated when you enable staff to deliver the highest quality and safe nursing care?

Do want to play a povital role in staff retention? Can you facilitate robust orientation and onboarding programme, coordinate the development of educational activities and assessment of learners and improve staff experience?

Do you have what it takes to provide clinical expertise and act as an effective role model for nurses within our department?

If these sound like you, then we would like to hear from you, come join us at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Children's Hospital Unit.

Post holder will create and promote a conducive learning environment that optimises safe delivery of enhanced nursing care to Children and Young people (CYP) requiring orthopaedic and musculoskeletal care.

Facilitate best practice and evidence based knowledge and skills development for staff, in order to optimise the delivery of highest quality and safe nursing care in the clinical area.

Support efficient and effective clinical care for CYP and families to achieve best outcome and experiences of care.

To enhance staff retention through robust orientation and onboarding programme for new staff, coordinate the development of educational activities and assessment of learners within CHU.

Provide clinical expertise and act as an effective role model for nurses

**Specialist Hospital**: The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) is not just any hospital; it's the largest specialist orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a globally recognized leader in orthopaedics and neuro-musculoskeletal medicine.

**Exiting place to work**: We serve over 150,000 patients annually, offering care for a wide range of conditions, from acute spinal injuries to chronic pain and sarcoma.

**Excellent Place to work**: Excellent NHS staff survey result. Above the national average for all themes. Best score amongst acute specialist trusts for flexible working

**Innovation and continuous improvement**: At RNOH, we're not just a hospital; we're a hub of innovation, renowned for our ground-breaking research.

**Clinical responsibilities**:
Facilitate staff training and compliance with Basic Life Support, Paediatric Immediate Life support, and European Paediatric Advanced Life Support.

Develop and establish monthly clinical skills workshop for CYP staff.

Promote and enable the delivery high standards fundamental of care through supporting individual staff with developing clinical knowledge and skills that assure safe enhanced nursing care are delivered to CYP.

Deliver evidence based and hands clinical nursing skills. Undertake assessment of their competence when taking on these new skills and providing feedback and personalises support to individual nurses.

Monitor and review clinical practice and professional standards through benchmarking, auditing.

Identify and respond to changes in protocols, pathways and guidelines and policies.

Work closely with the Spinal CNS and other relevant teams to implement Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programme on the ward.

Maintain enhanced nursing care educational records for all staff, competencies and feedback.

Provide support and facilitate high quality partnership and family centred care for CYP and families in collaboration with the multi professional team and in line with the local and national policies and guideline.

Coordinate robust induction programme for new starters into the clinical area and maintain a record of induction for all substantive and temporary staff.

Develop and establish monthly clinical skills workshop for CYP staff.

Support nursing students, and their supervisors/assessors within the clinical placement areas

Facilitate developmental opportunities for newly registered nurses that enable them achieve competency and maintain portfolios of practice to meet the demands of their new role

Help to monitor and report staff performance, institute remedial action planning where necessary.

Maintain a visible presence within the clinical area, spend minimum of 80% of time working with staff at the bedside to assure delivery of high quality safe and excellent care are delivered to CYP.

Supervise and monitor the quality of fundamentals of nursing care and nursing documentation is maintained to the Trust and NMC standards implement audit of clinical documentation and records to measure and evaluate care planning.

Support Clinical Nurse Educator with educational audits to ensure educational quality standards are maintained. Action audit information to achie