Practice Educator Bands 2-4

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Multi-professional Education Lead to coordinate and deliver educational programs for nursing and midwifery staff. The role involves planning training, supporting apprenticeships, and ensuring high-quality training standards. Ideal candidates will have a nursing or midwifery degree, teaching qualifications, and experience in clinical education.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of teaching in an acute care setting.
• Evidence of leadership/management development.
• Knowledge and experience of developing bands 2-4 clinical staff.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, facilitate and evaluate training for bands 2-4 nursing and midwifery staff.
• Support recruitment and retention of Healthcare Assistants to Apprenticeship programmes.
• Evaluate programmes of learning for bands 2-4 staff group.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Program evaluation

Support and facilitation

Education

Degree-educated Registered Nurse or Midwife

Post Graduate Certificate in Education

Job description

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Site North Middlesex Health Unit Town London Salary £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 16/06/2025 23:59

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

Thepurposeoftheroleistolead,coordinate,deliverandevaluatethe development, education and training for clinical bands 2-4 nursing andmidwifery staff across the hospital site including:

· Clinical Apprenticeships

· StudentNursingAssociate Apprentices

· RegisteredNursingDegree Apprentices

· Career/education opportunities

The post holder must demonstrate knowledge of current issues related to bands 2-4 education delivery. It is essential to have the ability to support the co-ordination of relevant educational issues and represent those views both internally and externally as required.

Main duties of the job

Keyelementsof theroleare to:

• Plan, develop, facilitate and evaluate the training, educational and developmental programmes, ensuring aims and objectives meet the relevant aspects of the appropriate standards and national priorities for the bands 2-4 nursing and midwifery workforce
• Support the recruitment and retention of Healthcare Assistants to Apprenticeship programmes including Level 2 HCSW Apprenticeship, Student Nursing Associate Apprentice (SNA) and Registered Nursing Degree Apprenticeship (RNDA) programmes
• Facilitate the training and development of Practice Supervisors/ Practice Assessors to enable them to support SNAs and RNDAs throughout the training programme
• Work clinically with apprentices including SNAs and RNDAs to provide support and facilitation
• Evaluate the programmes of learning for bands 2-4 staff group including clinical apprenticeships and provide written reports
• Keep up to date with best practice in nursing, midwifery and clinical care
• Practice in accordance with existing standards/policies and statutory requirements
• To manage the creation and delivery of in-house and external educational offerings to support the education and career progression of bands 2-4 nursing and midwifery staff

Thepost -holder candevelopwithintheroleandundertakefurthertrainingand development as and when required.

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To coordinatetheprovisionofhighqualityprogrammes thatsupport thebands2- 4 nursing and midwifery workforce

Toworkinpartnershipwiththepostregistrationnurseeducationteamto provide N&M induction for the nursing and midwifery staff group

To lead and supporttheeducationpractitioners(healthcare)todelivertheCare Certificate Programme

To work with key stakeholders to deliver and evaluate apprenticeship programmes including organisingandfacilitatingsessions,anddevelopingthosewhoareenrolledon the training and educational programmes

Actas aneducationexpertforapprenticeshipprogrammesduring theirtraining period

Provide expert guidance to Practice Supervisors/ Practice Assessors /educators in decisions relating to apprentice’s competence and fitness for practice

Develop co-ordinate and deliver and evaluate structured teaching programmes in conjunction with partner Higher Education Institutions

Create and maintain a support network for bands 2-4 staff group including clinical apprentices

CoordinateeducationanddevelopmentprogrammesthatsupportSNAsand RNDAs to meet NMC registration requirements

MaintainadatabaseofSNAsandtheirPracticeSupervisors/PracticeAssessors for the Trust

Provide training and support for Practice Supervisors/ Practice Assessors /managers who are supporting SNAs and RNDAs.

Monitor and evaluate programmes for bands 2-4 staff group including clinical apprentices and utilise feedback to develop support strategies

Identify and plan current and future needs for HCAs education and career progression working in partnership with all stakeholders

Maintain a database of HCAs that express interest or are undertaking functional skills

Work with key stakeholders and HEIs in responding to the changing needs of recruitment and retention of SNAs/RNDAs.

Manage hub and spoke placement enquiries and complaints from Practice Supervisors/ Practice Assessors, managers and HEI relating to behaviour, conduct, competency, health and safety issues, offering advice, support and decision-making referrals to others where necessary

Support and provide expert guidance to managers/ Practice Supervisors/ Practice Assessors / educators to provide feedback on performance and failing trainees

Contribute to clinical skills training programmes for bands 2-4 nursing and midwifery staff to expand and update their clinical skills e.g. Venepuncture, cannulation and ECG

Plan and coordinate inter-professional learning opportunities in practice for all bands 2-4 learners

Collaborate with other roles / post holders who support students / learners from other professions to develop inter-professional learning

Person specification

Education & professional Qualifications

• Degree-educated Registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration
• Post Graduate Certificate in Education/ significant experience of teaching in an acute care setting
• Evidence of leadership/ management development
• Evidence of continuing personal development

Experience

• Experience of working in a range of acute clinical settings and demonstrates good clinical decision-making skills
• Competent in undertaking cannulation, venepuncture, ECG and urinary catheterisation
• Knowledge and experience of developing bands 2-4 clinical staff including apprenticeships
• Current experience of assessing clinical skills
• Experience of developing training and education programmes
• Experience of working with staff across a range of disciplines and levels
• Experience of formal classroom and clinical based teaching

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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Name Sampson Duah Job title Multi-professional education lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02088872499

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