General Practice Education Facilitator

Job summary

The General Practice Education Facilitator role will support the Educational and workforce development opportunities such apprenticeships, those new to practice (Preceptorship, Fellowships, continual professional development, leadership development, and AD hoc opportunities offered by Health educational England.

You will be highly motivated who thrives on the supporting the development of learners and can provide the very best educational opportunities. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality multi-professional learning and will be required to support the breadth of the student, irrespective of grade or profession to ensure that learning opportunities are maximised.

With support from the Training Hub Lead and Operations Manager, take the lead in ULEs / desktop reviews, quality assurance monitoring/audits of clinical education in practice within primary care and in accordance with quality assurance standards in partnership with education providers.

Working Hours. This Job Vacancy is advertised via Irwell Medical and Darwen Healthcare (joint strategic leads) on behalf of Pennine Lancashire Training Hub. The role can be for one person but also advertised as a job share, flexible working hours including remote working and may suit an individual who is in the later stages of their career or wishing to work flexibly within a part-time role.

Main duties of the job

To act as a representative for clinical education at local and regional level ensuring that national quality standards are met within practice placements to provide all students an experience of the highest quality.

Able to identify trends in work-based learning and working in partnership with supervisors, assessors, and managers to ensure the learning needs of students are met in the workplace.

Able to ensure sure that learning opportunities are maximised in the clinical placement environment for all learners by evaluating training and development programmes and implementing changes because of evidence gathered.

Able to identify and promote opportunities for partnership working across a range of professional groups and agencies.

To maintain a robust database of ULEs of all clinical placements as well as up to date records of all Pennine Lancashire supervisors and assessors.

Work with the Training Hub Lead and Operations Manager to influence educators and managers to continue to offer placements, balancing the need for increasing clinical placements while ensuring consistency in the quality of placements

About us

Pennine Lancashire Training Hub form part of the one of the five localities that make up The Lancashire and South Cumbria Training Hub (L&SC TH) which supports the development of the existing and future workforce of General Practice.

The small friendly and professional team at Pennine Lancashire Training Hub value the ethos of education and training and work together supporting all the Practices with both East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. We would expect the post holder to have the knowledge and skills to complete the following key workstreams:

Develop and expand placement capacity Ensure workforce planning is in place Increase recruitment to Primary Care Recruit and embed new roles Retain the workforce

We adopt a flexible attitude to working hours and elements of the role can be completed remotely but encourage some working at one of the main bases in either Darwen Healthcare or Irwell Medical Centres.

Job description

Job responsibilities

CORE ELEMENTS:

To act as a representative for clinical education at local and regional level ensuring that national quality standards are met within practice placements to provide all students an experience of the highest quality.

Able to identify trends in work-based learning and working in partnership with supervisors, assessors, and managers to ensure the learning needs of students are met in the workplace.

Able to ensure sure that learning opportunities are maximised in the clinical placement environment for all learners by evaluating training and development programmes and implementing changes because of evidence gathered.

Able to identify and promote opportunities for partnership working across a range of professional groups and agencies.

To maintain a robust database of ULEs of all clinical placements as well as up to date records of all Pennine Lancashire supervisors and assessors.

Work with the Training Hub Lead and Operations Manager to influence educators and managers to continue to offer placements, balancing the need for increasing clinical placements while ensuring consistency in the quality of placements.

QUALITY ASSURANCE:

With support from the Training Hub Lead and Operations Manager, take the lead in ULEs / desktop reviews, quality assurance monitoring/audits of clinical education in practice within primary care and in accordance with quality assurance standards in partnership with education providers.

Assess the quality of learning environments against quality assurance standards, suggesting improvement measures to enhance learner experience.

Maintain records and ensure all educators, assessors and supervisors are trained and up to date in accordance with the relevant regulatory body standards in relation to supporting and educating learners in practice.

Provide best practice advice in a clinical setting for supervisors and staff in relation to clinical education.

Constantly seek to improve the quality of clinical education using evidence-based practice, liaising with professional colleagues, reviewing literature, and evaluating learner feedback.

Participate in evaluation methods to assess the impact of clinical education practice on patient care, where necessary.

Support both learners and educators/mentors/supervisor/assessors with risk assessment to ensure health and safety within the practice

Work in partnership with the educational institutes in the planning, delivery, and development of programmes across primary care.

STUDENT SUPPORT:

Ensure high quality learning experiences are provided for all learners within primary care.

Visit students within their placement supporting them with their education and assessments as well as ensuring no learning opportunity is missed. Support the quality of Clinical Placement Learning Environments by ensuring all placement providers have up to date ILOs and understand the requirements of the learners whilst on placement.

Ensure all learners are provided with a strategic and local induction at commencement of placement.

Where necessary, work alongside clinical educators, assessors, and supervisors in practice to support student development. Support educators, assessors and supervisors in complex decisions relating to the learner experience including the achievement of learning outcomes, competence, and fitness for practice.

ALLOCATIONS AND CAPACITY:

Facilitate the development of our portfolio of clinical practice educators, assessors, and supervisors, providing support structures to build capacity, capability, consistency and efficiency.

With support from the Training Hub Lead and Operations Manager, identify and develop new clinical placement capacity for our leaners across our area by networking with clinical teams and managers to explore all possible learning opportunities.

Support the Training Hub to map annual allocation of all learner placement plans for each HEI to enable long term capacity planning.

Balance the need for increasing the availability of practice placements while ensuring a consistency in the quality of placements.

Influence practice management, educators, supervisors, and assessor to continue to offer placements in times of great demands on clinicians and services and encouraging them to overcome barriers such as lack of funding, time, and space for student placements.

Identify further learning experiences that will enhance learning opportunities

COMMUNICATION:

Communicate educational and practice information across placement providers and education institutions and undertake presentations relating to education in practice where necessary.

Network locally, regionally, and nationally with peer group to support the sharing of best practice.

Ensure communication channels are used appropriately to facilitate the flow of information between internal and external partners.

Ensure confidentiality for all stakeholders is always adhered to.

OTHER:

Ensure that equality and diversity issues are recognised, addressed in accordance with legislation, policies, and procedures.

Understand the clinical, educational bodies and regulations associated with Health and Social Care professionals working within primary care.

Flexibility to adapt the role as required due to the evolving nature and growth of the Pennine Lancashire and Lancashire & South Cumbria Training Hubs.

Awareness and understanding of apprenticeship offers and educational requirements.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Essential criteria Has the ability to plan and implement new ways of working, facilitates collaborative working to improve service performance where there is resistance to change. Critical thinking to evaluate information and data. Negotiation and influencing skills supporting service development. Excellent track record in writing high quality reports and business cases. High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty, and integrity in undertaking the role Good written and verbal communication skills Good analytical skills, ability to analyse complex facts and provide composite reports. Calm and objective under pressure Ability to establish credibility and develop and maintain effective working relationships at operational and senior management level. Computer literate with experience of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and excellent and accurate Experience of working across multiple sites

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse/Healthcare Professional, Ist Level Degree or equivalent Broad range of General Practice Experience Experience of Continued Professional Development

Desirable

Experience of working in a Primary Care setting, healthcare environment and/or public sector is essential. An understanding of health and care services across the whole of community to include political and economic awareness. Experience of developing and delivering training for all levels of staff Knowledge and application of change management Extensive experience of teaching, supervising, and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries. Experience of staff management/staff supervision Experience of presenting to all levels of stakeholders Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures Demonstrable application of governance and quality frameworks Knowledge and experience of primary care, private, voluntary, and independent sector Demonstration and application of audits/coordinating and undertaking audits

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