Practice Learning Facilitator (Plf)

Northern Lincolnshire And Goole Nhs Foundation Trust; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Practice Learning Facilitator to provide leadership, education, quality assurance and clinical support to promote high-quality learning environments and patient care across the Trust.

You will coordinate student placements with Higher Education Institutions and placement providers, ensuring capacity and positive learning experiences across programmes.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership in education and clinical practice settings.
• Ability to coordinate placements with HEIs and placement providers.
• Experience in quality assurance and auditing of learning environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, education, quality assurance and clinical support to promote high‑quality learning environments and patient care.
• Coordinate student placements with Higher Education Institutions and placement providers, ensuring capacity and positive learning experiences.
• Support development and continuous improvement of practice learning environments, including creating placement opportunities and contributing to educational audits.
• Collaborate with universities, clinical teams and external stakeholders to strengthen educational partnerships.
• Contribute to workforce development strategies, policy development and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Educational delivery

Quality assurance

Clinical teaching

Audit/quality monitoring

Partnership working

Education

NMC registration

CPD evidence

Level 6 qualification

Mentorship/teaching qualification

Job description

Job summary

To work as part of the Practice Development Team and deliver robust and comprehensive, evidence-based programmes of training, assessment of clinical skills and clinical competencies of all Students, practice assessors and Supervisors.

To ensure that the principles that guide staff development reflect the trust commitment to quality, safety and patient experience, and that these are embedded into all clinical practice.

To ensure that high quality clinical placements are maintained for the full range of non‑medical students undertaking education and training throughout the Trust.

To promote partnership working across all key stakeholders involved in the development and training of non‑medical staff.

Main duties of the job

The Practice Learning Facilitator (PLF) provides leadership, education, quality assurance and clinical support to promote high‑quality learning environments and patient care across the Trust. The role coordinates student placements with Higher Education Institutions and placement providers, ensuring sufficient capacity and positive learning experiences across a range of programmes.

A key responsibility is supporting the development and continuous improvement of practice learning environments. This includes creating innovative placement opportunities, contributing to educational audits, supporting quality monitoring processes and implementing action plans to address identified concerns. Collaborative working with universities, clinical teams and external stakeholders promotes best practice and strengthens educational partnerships.

The PLF contributes to workforce development strategies, policy development and quality improvement initiatives. Effective relationships are maintained across health and social care organisations to share best practice and enhance learning opportunities. The role supports managers in addressing performance concerns and managing complex situations through effective communication.

Through educational delivery, placement quality assurance and support for practice supervisors and assessors, the PLF helps develop a skilled, compassionate workforce capable of delivering safe, effective and high‑quality patient care.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work‑life balance or a multi‑role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work‑life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well‑being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

We recognise that candidates may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support them when preparing their application. Where AI is used, the information provided must remain an accurate and authentic representation of your own skills, knowledge and experience.

AI must not be used to provide false or misleading information or to generate examples that do not reflect your own experience. You should be able to discuss and demonstrate the knowledge, skills and experience included within your application during the recruitment and selection process.

Candidates may be asked to declare whether AI has been used in preparing their application and, where applicable, how it has been used.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Current professional registration (NMC)
• Evidence of CPD
• Evidence of successful study at level 6
• Teaching and assessing qualification i.e., mentorship or equivalent

Desirable

• Leadership qualification
• Evidence of clinical teaching
• Evidence of clinical skills competence

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Essential

• A minimum of 3 years' experience of working in the clinical setting
• A minimum of two years Mentorship experience
• Experience of developing and educating staff
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Competent practitioner in relevant clinical practice

Desirable

• Experience of practice development and change management
• Good awareness of current initiatives and government agendas which impact on healthcare and education
• Experience of delivering simulation training.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

Essential

• Good communication - verbal/written
• Be able to work on own initiative
• Works well with in a team
• Demonstrates understanding of confidentiality
• Participate in standard setting and research projects
• Evidence showing clinical and professional development
• Ability to prioritise workload associated with changing environment and demands
• Facilitate learning of others
• Approachable

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.