Practice Facilitator

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Bradley Stoke; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Practice Facilitator to support community nursing teams, supervise practice, and lead education initiatives. The role emphasizes developing staff competencies and embedding high standards of care across diverse settings.

Applicants should be an experienced community nurse with NMC registration, a commitment to professional development, and skills in facilitation, IV therapy, central lines, and patient-communication in challenging

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (adult or general) and NMC Registered.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Facilitated Learning in Practice or equivalent teaching/assessing qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision in practice and organize the learning environment.
• Deliver education and clinical facilitation within community nursing.
• Oversee professional practice standards and respond to incidents to enable staff back to practice.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Mentor of preregistration students

Reflective practice

Clinical governance

Education

NMC Registration

Degree in a healthcare related subject

Facilitated Learning in Practice or equivalent

Management/leadership course (certificate level)

Ongoing professional development

Job description

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Practice Facilitator

The closing date is 30 November 2026

This post can be a fixed term for 12 months or as a 12 month secondment from your existing role.

*Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment*

Managed by and reporting to the Practice Development Leads for Community Nursing this role supports colleagues to work effectively, develop their skills and competency and embed into community nursing roles.

The role is suited to an experienced community nurse who has a passion for learning and facilitation of others who is willing to work alongside colleagues to develop their potential and support them in the challenging but diverse and rewarding role of being a community nurse.

Your skills will reflect the diversity of the role and your confidence in your community nursing skills will ensure you flourish in this new role. You must be competent in all community nursing clinical interventions including extended skills such as IV therapy, central lines, compression and Doppler assessment and gastrostomies. In addition your communication skills should be exemplary and you will be able to work in challenging and unpredictable situations autonomously.

Main duties of the job

We are a mobile working enabled service with electronic rostering and clinical recording well established.

Working across the county, but affiliated to an identified locality, the role involves supervision in practice, organisation of the learning environment, delivery of education and clinical facilitation and oversighting the professional practice standards within the service. In addition to the planned work you'll be engaged with, we recognise sometimes colleagues need support following unplanned events such as incidents and you will work to respond swiftly, to enable people back to practice, reduce risk and prevent recurrence. You will become a pivotal colleague in enabling a future workforce equipped with the skills to care.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Registered Nurse (adult or general)
• NMC Registration
• Facilitated Learning in Practice or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification
• To have undertaken a management/leadership course at certificate level
• Evidence of on-going professional development
• A Degree in a healthcare related subject

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

• Significant experience in a community nursing role in a variety of environments / settings
• Demonstrates good working knowledge of Community Nursing and Integrated Community Teams
• Mentor of pre-registration student nurses
• Experience of taking charge of and leading patient care
• Demonstrates a model of reflective practice and evidence based working
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner showing adaptability, reliability and flexibility
• Demonstrates a solid comprehension of clinical governance and application to practice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum pro rata