Clinical Practice Facilitator (Pre-registration Nursing)

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; Lewisham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Clinical Practice Facilitator to manage site-based Band 6 Clinical Practice Facilitators. The role involves supporting learners and ensuring quality clinical learning environments. Candidates should have strong clinical education expertise and be capable of improving engagement with diverse teams. This position promotes an inclusive culture within the NHS Trust.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a clinical practice facilitator.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work with diverse teams and backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Manage Band 6 Clinical Practice Facilitators.
• Support learners and practice supervisors.
• Maintain high visibility in clinical settings.

Skills

Clinical education expertise

Change agent skills

Partnership working

Education

Nursing qualifications

Job description

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) are excited to be recruiting to the post of Band 7 Clinical Practice Facilitator (CPF). The successful applicant will be responsible for the management of the site-based Band 6 (Adult) CPF posts and three distinct work streams focusing on improving the learner pathway within.

The Pre-registration Clinical Practice Facilitator team are responsible for:

• Maintaining a high visibility within clinical practice settings
• Supporting learners and their practice supervisors / assessors
• Ensuring clinical learning environments support the acquisition of required knowledge and skills
• Partnership working with local HEIs
• Facilitating training; Trust inductions, skills sessions, SSSA preparation

The successful candidate will be a highly visible role model for clinical education, an expert practitioner and change agent. They will promote quality learning environments in all areas of our services and be the lead CPF for Community, Paediatrics and Return to Practice; providing practical, clinical training and support to learners and their practice supervisors / assessors.

Partnership working is a key component to this post and the successful candidate will work collaboratively to develop relationships and networks within nursing teams, local Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) and Partner Organisations. They will be responsible for maintaining this relationship and are the bridge from practice back to theory through: supporting the facilitation of skills sessions at the HEIs; representing the Trust at meetings; involvement with interviews at the HEIs; encouraging and facilitating colleague's involvement with HEI activities and regularly liaising with the link lecturers.

Our key priorities include:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations.