Practice Educator

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Ashford is looking for a Practice Educator to train and assess staff competencies in delivering healthcare for children with complex needs. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and adaptable, committed to high standards of patient care. This role supports flexible working arrangements and values diversity among applicants.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Commitment to equity and diversity

Career pathways support

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and adaptable approach to education in healthcare.
• Ability to train and assess the competencies of KCC staff.
• Experience in delivering healthcare to children with complex health needs.

Responsibilities

• Train and assess KCC staff competencies for healthcare tasks.
• Supervise and support KCC staff to maintain competency.
• Ensure all KCC staff receive updated training and competency reassessment.

Job description

Overview

The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us. We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable Practice Educator to join our professional team. We’re a close team but we’re never exclusive; if you can bring a professional approach and fresh ideas we would love to hear from you.

The children’s short breaks service collaborates with KCC children’s residential short breaks units to ensure that children with complex health needs can safely access the units for their short break stay.

Practice educators work in a small team which strengthens the overall capacity of the service, ensuring training and competency assessments of KCC unit staff are prioritised and effectively delivered across each unit.

This is achieved through training and assessing the competencies of KCC staff, who provide hands-on care to meet the health needs of children and young people. Practice educators’ triage and assess to identify any health tasks that can be delegated to KCC unit staff, who are then trained, supervised, and competency-assessed to deliver the health tasks. This supervision and observation continues throughout the year, ensuring KCC staff feel supported and remain competent. Additionally, staff receive updated training and their competency is reassessed annually or sooner if required.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission. The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ann Fagg Job title: Lead Nurse Email address: [e-mail]