Home First & Reablement Practice and Learning Facilitator

NHS; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Tewkesbury is seeking a Practice and Learning Facilitator to enhance training for staff in their Home First and Reablement service. The role involves developing training programmes, mentoring staff, and ensuring a competent workforce. Ideal candidates possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a current professional registration. This position offers a salary range of £38,682 to £46,580 per annum and supports ongoing professional development.

Benefits

Ongoing professional development

Relocation support

Positive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare provider setting essential.
• Background in mentoring and supervision is required.
• Strong interpersonal skills needed for group facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Devise and deliver training opportunities for staff.
• Support induction programmes and ongoing professional development.
• Utilise performance management metrics to guide training.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Mentoring and coaching

Problem-solving abilities

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Education

Current NMC/HCPC Professional Registration

First degree

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Home First & Reablement Practice and Learning Facilitator

The closing date is 29 December 2025

The Home First and Reablement service in Gloucestershire is gaining strength and recognition for its ability to enhance independent living for people following their discharge home from a hospital environment. Our success has led to investment, expansion and commitment to deliver a high quality service across the County.

We are looking for a Practice and Learning Facilitator to join our team and support the training and development needs of the Home First and Reablement staff within the service. Working with the support of the Trust Learning and Development team, this is an exciting opportunity for you to use your clinical skills and experience of working within multidisciplinary teams to nurture and develop others. Our vision is to maintain a competent workforce, providing high quality, evidence-based interventions that meet the needs of our local population, and the post holder will be instrumental in achieving this.

The service utilises the skills and experience of a multidisciplinary team, including therapists, nurses, Home First and Reablement support workers and the wider community to deliver person-centred care and enable people to maximise their opportunities. We use a strengths-based approach to support people to optimise their potential and find solutions to manage their situations and remain living well for as long as possible.

Main duties of the job

Working alongside the Reablement lead and professional colleagues the post holder will devise and deliver training opportunities through a range of mediums to support induction programmes and on-going continuous professional development.

The successful post holder will have experience in training, and work place staff performance management, utilising a range of metrics and IT capabilities. Applicants will be strong communicators across a range of diverse staff groups and have a proven record of continuous professional development. A UK driving licence and access to a car is essential, and agile working will enable you to access all the localities across the County.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services across 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunities to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and surveys.

Job responsibilities

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

The Trust aims to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services. It is the Trust's view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice prior to applying for the role.

Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor. Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render them liable to dismissal.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to have been recognised as a Veteran Aware Trust, evidencing the provision of the best care for Veterans and driving to improve the care for veterans and families.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC/HCPC Professional Registration
• First degree or evidence of studying at this level
• Proven evidence of recent and ongoing CPD and understanding of revalidation requirements

Experience

• Demonstrable recent experience of working in a healthcare provider setting
• Demonstrable experience in supporting learners in practice, mentoring and supervision
• Enhanced interpersonal skills to handle group facilitation, 1:1 coaching and challenging situations
• Skilled in Microsoft Office Packages, e.g. Word, PowerPoint, presentation software, e.g. video
• Experience of managing people
• Dynamic and enthusiastic individual who can support, encourage and motivate others, strong interpersonal communications and presentational skills, an outgoing, professional and confident manner

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata