Practice Educator

Derbyshire Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation packages

Flexible working

27 days annual leave

NHS pension

Staff development

Job summary

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced nurse educator to lead and deliver School Nursing education within practice. You will supervise SCPHN students, assess competency, and ensure evidence-based practice within the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme.

Applicants must have SCPHN qualification, Teaching in Practice, and a Masters; strong leadership, safeguarding, and ability to manage complex workloads are essential.

Qualifications

• SCPHN qualification
• Teaching in Practice qualification
• Educated to Masters

Responsibilities

• Provide and lead clinical education within practice to Health Visiting/ School Nursing Teams including pre and post registration students.
• Provide guidance and support to staff to address competency issues and devise plans to address them.
• Ensure students are Fit for Practice for NMC registration.
• Support SCPHN students with assessments and practice outcomes.
• Support Trainee Practice Educators and Mentors and other pre/post registration students.
• Assess/develop and implement care plans within own and students caseloads and advise families with evidence-based care.

Skills

Excellent communication

Leadership

Workload management

Proactive and innovative

Influence and motivate others

Education

Masters

Job description

Job summary

Are you passionate about training our future School Nurses and have the SCPHN qualification (School Nursing) with a Teaching in Practice module or equivalent qualification? Do you want to work with a children's service that has been identified as 'Outstanding' by CQC? Then come to work for Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Trust! You will provide Clinical Leadership and facilitate the learning environment of Specialist Public Health Nurses and other pre and post registration students in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 service. Signing students off as 'Fit to Practice' for the NMC Register at the end of academic/practice year. You will be responsible for a defined caseload with continuing responsibility for the assessment of need, implementation of evidence based initiatives and the evaluation/audit of them. Please note: Interviews will not be scheduled prior to the week of December 9th.

• Providing clinical education within practice to the School Nursing service/teams ensuring evidence based practice is delivered to the highest standard (including pre and post registration students).
• Supporting SCPHN students through their training and addressing competency issues, whilst providing clear and concise documentation of areas of concern. Support students with their assessments and practice outcomes.
• Provide guidance and support to members of staff where competency issues have been raised, devise plans and support packages to address competency issues.
• To prescribe in line with NMC code.
• Assessment and marking of the Public Health Students learning outcomes evidence that they are 'Fit for Practice'.
• Work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate to the needs of children, young people and their families/carers with a wide range of ethnic, cultural, class and religious background.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'. CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

• Relocation packages are available
• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

Please review the Job Description and Person Specification.

• Provide and lead clinical education within practice to Health Visiting/ School Nursing Teams which will include pre and post registration students.
• Provide guidance and support to members of staff where competency issues have been raised, devise plans and support packages to address competency issues.
• they are Fit for Practice to ensure registration with the NMC.
• Support SCPHN students with their assessments and practice outcomes.
• Support Trainee Practice Educators and Mentors and other pre and post registration students.
• Assess/develop and implement care plans within own and students caseloads and advise families of relevant care and ensure care given is evidence-based.

Person Specification

Attainment/Qualifications

Essential

• SCPHN qualification
• Teaching in Practice qualification
• Educated to Masters

Desirable

• Level 4 safeguarding
• Leadership qualification
• Nurse Prescribing
• Differing Fields of Practice (Health Visiting)

Knowledge and Experiance

Essential

• Excellent understanding of School Nursing and the 0-19 agenda
• Excellent knowledge of local and national public health agenda
• Excellent understanding of safeguarding children and experience.
• Experience of working with and supporting practitioners who are experiencing competency issues.
• Clinical supervision experience

Desirable

• Demonstrate a flexible approach to work

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and non-verbal.
• Evidence of leadership and the ability to lead and change practice
• Ability to manage own workload, priorities. and experience of working a complex caseload.
• Ability to be proactive and innovative practitioner.
• Demonstrate ability to influence and motivate others

Desirable

• Audit skills and ability to produce report.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).