Band 6 Education Facilitator

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading heart and lung hospital in Cambridge seeks an individual to join its Clinical Education team. The role involves supporting staff and learners in the clinical environment, communicating effectively with various stakeholders, and undertaking a clinical role to enhance patient care. The ideal candidate will have a focus on professional development within surgical teams and contribute to training programs. This position reflects the values of compassion, excellence, and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support staff and learners in the clinical environment.
• Communicate effectively with learners, patients, and the team.
• Work in clinical areas to support new starters.
• Undertake a clinical role in the department.
• Identify, design, and deliver training programs.

Job description

Overview

An ideal opportunity for an individual to join the Clinical Education team with a core focus on Continuing Professional Development within the Surgical teams at Royal Papworth Hospital.

5 North is a 41 bedded cardiothoracic surgical ward, specialising in heart and lung transplantation, pulmonary thrombo endarterectomy and artificial heart devices. 5 South is a 35 bedded cardiothoracic surgical ward, specialising in Thoracic surgery Cardiac surgery and Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy.

Responsibilities

• Support staff and learners in the clinical environment across a spectrum of patient pathways, in partnership with Clinical Educators and local clinical leads, ensuring the planning, delivery, and evaluation of professional development opportunities relative to peri and post operative/intervention care.
• Communicate effectively with learners, patients, families, and the multidisciplinary team; provide guidance and support to staff and learners; foster the professional development of clinical and technical skills in collaboration with clinical area leads and line managers.
• Work in clinical areas to support new starters or those requiring additional input as agreed, using learning contracts, action plans and approved assessment tools.
• Undertake a clinical role in the department to provide direct patient care, support the nursing team, enhance skill mix, and maintain high standards of patient care, safety and operational efficiency.
• Identify, design, and deliver quality clinical skills and development training programs relevant to an individualrea of practice/program of study/defined assessment program, including local induction, competence training and assessment, and enable ongoing professional development.

Royal Papworth Hospital context

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission — a rating it still holds today. The Trust upholds values of compassion, excellence & collaboration, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles and interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Provided they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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