Clinical skills facilitator Key responsibilities

Medway Community Healthcare CIC; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in England is seeking clinical skills facilitators to support nursing teams in delivering high-quality care. The successful candidate will work closely with the practice educator, leading training and development initiatives. Key responsibilities include monitoring performance and facilitating inter-professional learning. Prior experience as a registered nurse is essential, along with strong interpersonal and clinical skills. This role offers flexible working arrangements and development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Pension schemes

Friendly team environment

Qualifications

• Must be a skilled registered nurse.
• Experience in supporting clinical education is preferred.
• Understanding of evidence-based practice is required.

Responsibilities

• Deputize in absence of the Practice Educator.
• Identify learning needs among nursing teams.
• Monitor staff performance according to clinical competency.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Clinical assessment skills

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Holistic care

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

Do you want to be part of an award winning and dynamic social enterprise that is renowned for providing high quality care and is ranked 'Good' by the CQC; is a for-better-profit organisation reinvesting surplus into health and care services and local communities; is friendly, ambitious, welcomes innovation and rewards excellence; offers superior benefits; and whose achievements reflect the passion and commitment of our staff across all services? Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant community interest company that benefits the communities we serve. If you want to be a part of this, we would love to hear from you.

Are you a skilled registered nurse with excellent interpersonal and clinical assessment skills? Are you passionate about supporting nurses to provide excellent, holistic care? Would you like to join a service that will give you time and space to learn, with a comprehensive nursing induction programme and clinical supervision? If you answered yes, we've got the perfect role for you.

We are looking for clinical skills facilitators to work with and support the practice educator in these exciting new roles, to develop, maintain and support learning, development and growth within our neighbourhood nursing teams using evidence-based practice. You will work in close collaboration with all members of the neighbourhood nursing teams to provide comprehensive, evidence-based practice, assess the quality of a range of practice learning environments, determine interventions to sustain and enhance practice education; ensuring all localities have an up to date action plan in place. You will support and facilitate the development of clinical supervisors, assessors and preceptors, providing supervision and support structures in order to build education in practice capability, consistency and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• To deputise when required in the Practice Educator's absence and delegate work appropriately and attend meetings as assigned.
• Identify opportunities and work collaboratively with Practice Educator and Locality Leads on the planning, structuring, design, delivery and review of inter-professional learning opportunities and education in practice for health care learners, supervisors, assessors and preceptors.
• Collaboratively identify the learning needs of different professional groups within Neighbourhood Nursing Teams, ensuring that the facilitation of inter professional learning outcomes are met as per educational policies, Standard Operating Procedures and Clinical Competencies.
• Provide best practice advice in the clinical setting for practice assessors, mentors, preceptors and staff in relation to education in practice.
• Develop and maintain up to date, accurate records and live register of practice assessors and preceptors in the practice setting.
• Monitor staff performance in line with MCH policies, SOPs and clinical competency and work collaboratively with the Education Team, Locality Leads and staff member to produce action plans, if necessary, to support development.
• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day.
• To actively promote self-management which enables the patient to proactively manage their long-term condition and know how to confidently manage or respond to any expected exacerbation or deterioration in their condition.
• To work closely with other members of the team, provider services, health and social care partners and GPs to identify high risk patients providing a holistic assessment and assurance that they are able to access the relevant services.
• To support the staff member to complete holistic assessments of patients referred to Neighbourhood Nursing and liaise with the Neighbourhood Nursing Teams on patients' treatment needs.
• To assist in monitoring the quality of nursing services offered and contribute to the development of quality measures.
• Identify the need for and participate in clinical audit, implement change in clinical practice and participate in monitoring and evaluation processes.
• To undertake the team's appraisal and performance development planning process, identifying training needs of team members, ensuring appropriate training is provided and that training is utilised in practice.

Qualifications and Requirements

Full JD can be found in the attachments. We reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 1 week of the closing date; no discourtesy is intended in not contacting you if your application is rejected. When completing your application, please include the email addresses and contact telephone numbers for your referees; your referees should be your line managers / course tutors for the last 3 years.

Equal Opportunity and Safeguarding

MCH is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to a compassionate and inclusive workplace and values diversity of all people. We prohibit unlawful discrimination and harassment of any kind and wish to provide our employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workforce and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join MCH. We are positive about disability and we guarantee interviews to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria as specified in the job description. We are committed to offering support and making reasonable adjustments to allow full participation in the interview and selection process and through their employee journey. We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

Benefits and Flexible Working

You'll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team. We support flexible working and are a flexible-working friendly organisation. Informal visits can be arranged on request. We offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the Scottish Widows group pension scheme. MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients. At this time, MCH cannot fund or support any further nurses who require the OSCE training. Please do not apply if you require this training.