Endoscopy Practice Education Facilitator

Transformationunitgm; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious NHS organization is seeking a dedicated Band 6 professional to enhance multi-professional learning within its Endoscopy department. The role focuses on training staff, supporting students in clinical environments, and ensuring high standards of education. This fixed-term post promises a collaborative working atmosphere within one of the largest employers in the region, aiming to provide exceptional patient care.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Support for professional development

Commitment to equality and diversity

Qualifications

• Minimum degree level qualification with professional registration.
• Willingness to undertake Master's level study.
• Broad range of clinical experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess the quality of practice learning environments and ensure competency in endoscopy procedures.
• Develop structured inter-professional learning activities for healthcare students.
• Facilitate mentorship and practice supervision across professional boundaries.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Teaching Ability

Organizational Skills

Education

Professional qualification at degree level

European Computer Driving License

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Elective Care Centre, Endoscopy Department, Aintree Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/06/2025 23:59

Band 6

Job overview

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality multi-professional learning environments within the Trust and will be required to work locally within services where inter-professional learning opportunities can be provided. The post holder will be required to support the breadth of the student experience, which may require cross boundary working.

The post holder will require to support and train staff in Endoscopy procedures ensuring they are competent to ensure the safety of the patients is paramount and support the Endoscopist in endoscopy procedures.

Please note this a 12 month Fixed Term post

Main duties of the job

- Assessing the quality of practice learning environments; ensuring all
service areas/ placement providers have up to date action plans in
place.
- Facilitating the development, and ensuring a sufficient provision of
mentors/ practice supervisors across relevant service areas; providing
supervision and support structures, building education in practice
capability, consistency and efficiency.
- Structuring and coordinating inter-professional learning activity across
a service area(s).

- Ensuring all staff are competent in endoscopy procedures providing evidence for GRS

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Plan, design and deliver structured inter-professional learning in
practice for healthcare students and mentors/ practice supervisors.

- Contribute to the planning, delivery and review of multi professional development programmes for mentors/ practice supervisors in order to meet the learning needs of different professional groups, and to ensure that the facilitation of interprofessional learning outcomes is included.

- Identify opportunities where multi-professional mentorship and
practice supervision can be facilitated in practice as a foundation
for inter-professional learning to take place.

- Produce and maintain a portfolio of education in practice activity
within service area(s). For example, in house mentorship programmes, structured interprofessional learning activities, teaching packages.

- Develop, implement and review education in the clinical and other practice learning environments in line with educational policy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification, to a minimum of degree level, with up to date professional registration
• Willingness to undertake Masters level study relating to education in practice
• European Computer Driving License

Experience

• Broad range of clinical experience.
• Experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting.
• Experience of having worked across professional and organizational boundaries.
• Practical experience of facilitating change.
• Staff management/staff supervision.
• Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of different methods/ styles for teaching and learning
• Detailed understanding of curriculum development including the generation of learning outcomes
• Detailed understanding of a range of regulatory body requirements
• In depth knowledge of Quality Assurance principles and framework
• Working knowledge of Inter-professional learning theory
• Microsoft office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
• Knowledge and experience of the private, voluntary and independent sector

Skills

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent interpersonal skills able to engage and build effective relationships at all levels in stakeholder organisations
• Ability to present to large groups of people
• Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff
• Able to plan, implement and evaluate education programmes
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative
• Ability to work flexibly and manage competing priorities
• Consistently high attention to detail and quality of work
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds
• Adaptable to meet differing learning styles/ preferences
• Willingness to work across organization boundaries
• Ability to write evidence based reports
• Understanding of quality improvement methodology and outcome measurement
• Ability to supervise staff on a day to day basis

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.