Practice Facilitator

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced community nurse to support colleagues in developing skills and competency within community nursing. The role covers a mobile working service across the county and requires competency in extended interventions, excellent communication, and autonomous working in varied situations.

The post includes supervision, education delivery, and overseeing professional practice standards, with a focus on embedding a future skilled

Qualifications

• Experienced community nurse with passion for learning and facilitation of others.
• Competent in all community nursing clinical interventions including extended skills such as IV therapy, central lines, compression and Doppler assessment and gastrostomies.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work autonomously in challenging situations.

Responsibilities

• Supervise in practice and organise the learning environment.
• Deliver education and clinical facilitation to staff.
• Oversee professional practice standards within the service.
• Respond to unplanned events to enable people back to practice and reduce risk.
• Help develop a future workforce equipped with essential community nursing skills.

Skills

Community nursing

Clinical interventions

IV therapy

Central lines

Doppler assessment

Gastrostomies

Autonomous working

Job description

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.

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.