Practice Education Facilitator

The Role

We are looking to recruit a Practice Education Facilitator to join the Practice Education Team at Beckford Street.

The Practice Education Facilitator roles are designed to influence the quality of the clinical learning environment, by providing support, educational input and development activities for mentors/preceptors/practice supervisors/practice assessors and students within HNC pre-registration and post-registration education programmes.

The role aims to enhance the quality of the practice learning experience and positively contribute to the future nursing/midwifery workforce.

By enhancing the quality of the learning environment, the education and training needs of health care assistants and of the full range of professional groups may be addressed.

Contract type

Fixed-term or Secondment - 9 months / Band 6 / Part Time / 14.8 hours

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

Why join NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service (pro-rata for part time staff)
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee Counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

What we'll need you to bring

• Registered Nurse/Midwife with valid NMC registration
• Educated to/working towards/operating at degree level
• Post graduate expertise within speciality/area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality/area of practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/ area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality/ area of practice.
• Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery.
• Further education/evidence of continuous professional development in area of speciality including study days/courses/post graduate qualification and be able to provide evidence of mentorship experience or evidence to demonstrate the post holder has contributed to enhancing the practice learning environment and student supervision and assessment.
• The post holder will possess excellent team working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative.
• Effective listening communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective time management skills
• Working knowledge of basic information technology

It would be good if you also had

• Completed a recognised mentorship preparation programme
• Evidence of leadership development
• Working towards a higher degree
• Post registration experience within a clinical environment inclusive of educational supervision experience
• Provide practical examples of implementing evidence based care
• Provides practical examples of innovation in implementing theory/practice
• Demonstrates awareness of recent changes in nursing/midwifery education
• Evidence of participation in management or promotion of the learning environment
• Evidence of participation in audit
• Evidence of participation in research
• Evidence of additional study in nurse/midwife education
• PEF experience

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Nicola Ozatalay at Nicola.Ozatalay@lanarkkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Devon Westwater at Devon.Westwater@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date. However, if there are a high level of interest in this position, we may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
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NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent—regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.

Right to Work within the UK

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

Please note that all Band 1 and Band 2 posts are not eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route.