Clinical Skills Facilitator - Band 6

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider in Bath is seeking a Clinical Skills Facilitator to enhance the learning experience of medical students. This role involves developing and delivering clinical skills programs while supporting a collaborative teaching environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in nursing, teaching, and clinical practice, ensuring that students gain the necessary skills to excel in their medical careers. Join a team dedicated to compassionate care and professional development in a supportive and inclusive atmosphere.

Benefits

Staff Wellbeing Programs

Flexible Working Hours

Access to a Pool

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years working in the NHS.
• Registered Nurse with teaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver clinical skills teaching programs.
• Support medical students in their learning journey.

Skills

Clinical Teaching

Simulation-Based Education

Competency-Based Teaching

Communication Skills

Manual Dexterity

Education

Registered Nurse

Teaching Qualification

Job description

Job Overview

We have an exciting opportunity of a permanent post of Clinical Skills Facilitator within the Undergraduate Department at Bath Academy within the RUH. You will be a key member of the team supporting the Medical Dean and Clinical Teaching Fellows (CTFs) in the delivery of the University of Bristol Undergraduate medical curriculum.

This is a 24 hour per week post (ideally Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)over 45 weeks of the year. You will not work for 7 weeks over July and August when the medical students have their summer holiday.

Main duties of the job

The main responsibility of the role will be developing, facilitating, evaluating and delivering the clinical skills teaching programme to University of Bristol medical students, in line with curriculum requirements.

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 2 year minimum working in the NHS
• Registered Nurse
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Teaching Qualification
• OSCE Assessors Course
• SIM Train the Trainer Course
  
  

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a clinical environment
• Evidence of recent clinical experience with acutely unwell/deteriorating patients
• Experience of designing, delivering and evaluation training
• Competence in the skills described in the CAPS logbook
• Ability to manage own workload, work independently and accurately to defined procedures
• Recent evidence of continuing professional and personal development
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience/evidence of teaching medical students in a variety of group sizes
• Experience of facilitating simulation based education
• Achieved a Mental Health Awareness course or similar
  
  

Values

Essential criteria

• Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual - supporting equality and diversity
• Understand the need for strict confidentiality
• Motivated to be kind and caring
• Work within a team - helping and co-operating with colleagues
• Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, their role and where they work
  
  

Specific Skills

Essential criteria

• An enthusiastic and supportive facilitator
• Apply evidence based practice to improve learning quality
• Experience of competency based teaching and assessing in clinical practice
• To teach and give feedback in a supportive and constructive way
• Apply a variety of teaching skills one - one, simulation and group teaching
• To promote monitor and maintain best practice in health safety and security
• Able to work on own initiative plan and prioritise own workload
  
  

Physical skills and Emotional effort

Essential criteria

• Physical Skills - demonstrate manual dexterity to take blood, cannulate etc.
• Physical effort - Move/manual handle patients and equipment. walk from department to department regularly
• Emotional effort - Occasionally dealing with conflict or difficult situations e.g. failing students, students struggling with mental health issues and other pastoral issues
  
  

Working Environment requirements

Essential criteria

• Involves direct contact with bodily fluids etc. when involved in clinical care
• Safe disposal of sharps and clinical waste
• Occasional risk of verbal aggression from patients and staff members
  
  

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description and person spec (PDF, 216.4KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Rebecca Weston Job title Undergraduate Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01225 825339