Practice Educator - Cats

Great Ormond Street Hospital; England; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital's Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS) invites applications for a Band 7 Practice Educator on secondment/maternity cover. The role focuses on education, service development, and leading both internal and external educational activities within a dynamic MDT in a paediatric transport setting.

The post requires registration with NMC, a BSc Nursing degree, mentorship or practice assessor qualification, and extensive paediatric critical care experience, with the

Qualifications

• NMC registration for paediatric or adult nursing.
• BSc (Hons) in nursing is required.
• Mentorship or Practice Assessor qualification.
• Paediatric Critical Care Course is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide and promote nursing expertise in the transport environment.
• Act as a role model delivering high-quality care to transported children and families.
• Advocate for child, family and carers.
• Support junior staff and trainees with clinical skill development.
• Promote effective communication across the MDT.
• Support governance through adherence to protocols and guidelines.
• Collaborate with regional Education Team to support education and learning.
• Coordinate in-house education programme, national forums, and simulation courses.
• Oversee annual update days for CATS trained nurses and ensure service direction.

Skills

Mentorship

Education leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Nurse educator

Education

NMC Registration - adult or paediatric

BSc (Hons) nursing degree

Mentorship or Practice Assessor

Paediatric Critical Care Course

Job description

Job overview

The Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS) is a 24-hour service, which aims to provide the highest quality paediatric intensive care for children and their families, from the first point of contact to the final unit destination.

An exciting opportunity for a secondment / maternity leave cover post has arisen for a band 7 Practice Educator role. We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced transport nurse who has a special interest in education and service development. You’ll support a friendly and dynamic multi-disciplinary team. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality evidence-based care is delivered to each child and able to lead both internal and external educational activities. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in unfamiliar environments are essential to the role.

Main duties of the job

• To provide and promote nursing expertise in the transport environment
• To be a role model in providing high quality care to the children and families we transport
• To advocate for the child, family, and carers
• To ensure that all junior staff and trainees have support and direction in developing their clinical skill
• To promote and maintain effective communication across the multi-disciplinary team
• To support the clinical governance leads by promoting a safe environment through adherence to trust and service specific protocols and guidelines
• To collaborate with the North Thames Paediatric Network Education Team to support and deliver region-wide education and learning
• To collaborate with the CATS medical lead for education, ensuring delivery of the in house education programme, national forums, and simulation courses
• To support the outreach educational programme delivered by CATS to the district general hospitals we serve, looking at learning opportunities through case-based discussions, workshops, and simulation
• To oversee the delivery of annual update days for all CATS trained nurses, ensuring process and/or equipment change, and strategic direction of the service is addressed

Working for our organisation

We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as the communities we serve, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, people with a disability, and people from LGBTQ+ communities. By growing an ever more diverse workforce, we’ll have a greater range of perspectives and knowledge, meaning that we can provide the children and young people at our hospital with even better care.

Our hospital is committed to creating an environment that is open and inclusive. Our staff are encouraged to engage with colleagues through the following networks: REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities & Leveraging Disabilities Network), PRIDE and Women’s networks; all of which are sponsored by a member of our Executive Management Team.

We want to ensure that all of our people, regardless of their background, are seen and heard. We want to attract applicants that share our commitment to inclusion and that understand diversity is a strength that is embraced and valued.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

GOSH Culture and Values

Essential criteria

• Collaboration - We work together to deliver safe, consistent, patient-centred care. Respect - We treat everyone with respect, kindness and equity. Curiosity - We stay curious to drive innovation that delivers exceptional patient outcomes.

Academic/Professional qualification/Training

Essential criteria

• NMC Registration - adult or paediatric
• Qualification - BSc (hons) nursing degree
• Training - Mentorship or Practice Assessor
• Paediatric Critical Care Course

Desirable criteria

• Qualification - PGCert Practice Education
• LSBU - Advanced Skills in Paediatric Ventilator Management

Experience/Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Thorough knowledge of neonatal, paediatric & adult anatomy and physiology.
• Thorough knowledge of common respiratory pathologies & common congenital heart defects. An ability to analyse & discuss these as part of holistic care, including the risks & benefits. An ability to explain & justify the plan of care
• assessment process such that it is objective & thorough. An ability to identify educational goals & teaching methods that meet the needs of learners & promote high standards of patient care. An ability to discuss the advantages & disadvantages of these and justify a given approach.
• Identify relevant evidence & research and apply this to educational & clinical practice. Understand common methodologies for audit and research. Understand the process of change management, including barriers, enablers and possible strategies
• Understand the current issues in children’s nursing, the wider healthcare system & at national level. Identify & discuss possible responses to these
• Experience in the paediatric critical care transport environment
• Experience in a previous educational role.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of taking charge of a paediatric high dependency or intensive care unit.

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellence in core neonatal & paediatric clinical skills.
• Excellence in specialist PICU clinical skills, including the care of patients requiring intubation & ventilation, HFOV (high frequency oscillatory ventilation), chest drains, inotropes & vasoactive drugs, anticoagulation, cardiac pacing & therapeutic cooling.
• Excellence in core educational skills - mentorship, preceptorship & bedside assessment & teaching. Courage to pass or not to pass a learner at the point of assessment & develop a plan of action that meets their needs. Promotion of high educational standards and patient safety.
• Excellence in communication - listening, assessing, discussion & documentation. Transparency & integrity during interactions with patients, families & colleagues. An ability to use educational theory & evidence to help address challenging situations and justify a given approach
• Excellence in time management. The ability to prioritise, complete & delegate one’s own workload, as appropriate. Appreciate & assess the knowledge, skills & clinical situations of learners & enable them develop competence, confidence & independence.
• Work collaboratively and effectively within the MDT (multidisciplinary team) and the wider organisational structures, respecting the roles & responsibilities of others.
• Ability to motivate individuals and develop a team of staff.

Desirable criteria

• Interviewing, appraisal & performance management skills