Practice Education Facilitator | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare trust in Liverpool seeks a dedicated professional to enhance the quality of multi-professional learning environments. Responsibilities include supporting staff in endoscopy procedures, coordinating learning activities, and ensuring competency across services. Ideal candidates will have experience in clinical training and a passion for education in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting and training staff in endoscopy procedures.
• Ability to facilitate inter-professional learning activities.
• Skills in assessing and ensuring quality in practice learning environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess quality of practice learning environments.
• Coordinate inter-professional learning activities.
• Support and train staff in endoscopy procedures.

Job description

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 be required 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

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. The Royal 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.

This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025.