Practice Facilitator

NHS; Hereford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Hereford is looking for a Band 6 Practice Facilitator to join their Practice Education Team. This role requires a motivated and clinically experienced practitioner with a passion for education and developing others. The successful candidate will identify best practices in training programs and support learners' skills acquisition across diverse healthcare settings. Flexible working is a key aspect of this position.

Benefits

Great work-life balance

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Clinical experience at Band 5 or above required.
• Experience in teaching clinical skills in acute/community settings.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop training programs based on best practice.
• Support learners with skill acquisition and holistic care delivery.
• Work flexibly across Education Directorate and Practice Education Team.

Skills

Ability to develop clinical skills teaching

Broad knowledge of education delivery in the NHS

Ability to work flexibly and responsively

Education

Possession of assessment qualification (e.g. Practice Assessor)

Teacher/Trainer Award (e.g. PG Cert)

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Practice Education Team - growing in response to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (2023), to educate and develop our current and future workforce.

We are looking for a highly motivated, credible and clinically experienced healthcare practitioners, with a special interest in education, and sound experience of developing others - to join us as a Band 6 Practice Facilitator.

These substantive Practice Facilitator posts are 'flexible' by nature - requiring a high level of adaptability to work collaboratively across the Practice Education Team within the Education Team.

The Practice Education Team includes: pre-reg Midwifery, pre-reg Allied Health Professional, Resuscitation, HASTE, Preceptorship, International Nurses Programme and Apprenticeships.

Main duties of the job

Identify evidence based, best practice models for the development of training programs for pre and post registration and non- registered multidisciplinary workforce within their own scope of practice.

Ability to work flexibly across the Education Directorate and Practice Education Team to support education and training

Provide support to learners with the acquisition of enhanced skills and the delivery of holistic care based upon care pathways and evidence based practice.

Providing support and education to learners, supervisory staff and the Practice Education Team.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Possession of assessment qualification e.g. Practice Assessor / Practice Educator (AHP) or equivalent.
• Teacher / Trainer Award e.g. PG Cert (Teacher) / PGCE or equivalent relevant experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Ability to develop, implement and evaluate evidence based clinical skills teaching both in the classroom and in practice
• Broad knowledge of education delivery in the NHS and associated key relationships
• Ability to work flexibly and responsively, in order to support learners at all times

Experience

• Clinical experience at Band 5 (or equivalent) or above.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills in acute and / or community based practice setting

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.

Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford County Hospital

Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford County Hospital