Practice Teacher/Clinical Educator Health Visiting

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Ashfield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Friendly working environment

Employee networks (EDI, Green Champs,等

Health & wellbeing services

Net-zero commitment

Job summary

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Practice Teacher/Clinical Educator (Health Visiting) to join our Integrated Healthy Families Team based across Nottinghamshire. The role combines community-based practice with education, assessment, and development of staff and student clinicians.

You will lead learning initiatives, work with managers and HEIs to deliver the 0-19 Healthy Child programme, supervise colleagues, and promote best practice.

Qualifications

• Experience in health visiting or public health nursing.
• Ability to develop education programmes and supervise staff.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess, teach, and evaluate learning within community settings.
• Develop education programmes with HEI partners.
• Supervise and mentor staff, maintain competency.
• Support preceptorship and safeguarding.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic Practice Teacher/ Clinical Educator (Health Visiting) to join our Integrated Healthy Families Team based within Nottinghamshire County, negotiable base, but also supporting the wider districts as part of the Practice Teacher team.

• You will work as part of the team as a community-based practitioner working both within practice setting and within the HEI; assessing, teaching, and evaluating learning, developing programmes of education, and working with others to develop specialist nursing clinicians for the future. The post holder with be part of the leadership team, working in partnership with managers in the development of services to meet the changing needs of the resident population, including the response to professional issues as they arise
• The post holder as a member of the Healthy Families Team will support the delivery of a universal and targeted 0‑19 Healthy Child and Public Health Nursing Programme. This will be delivered in line with the National and Local guidelines and public health priorities. Working proactively using a partnership approach to promote health and contribute to tackling health inequalities within the level of competencies required for the post.
• Provide and facilitate a higher level of development /education for staff to maintain a workforce of specialist community clinicians (NMC standards)
• Work with managers and HEIs in the development and delivery of education, promoting best practice and addressing practice issues relating to competency and service development.
• Supervise, teach, develop and support other professional colleagues and staff (qualified and unqualified) assessing and monitoring competency in order to maintain quality services
• Support models of preceptorship and mentorship
• Provide evidence-based learning opportunities
• Provide safeguarding and clinical supervision to HFT members.
• We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, innovative, creative applicant with excellent communication skills. You will enjoy working as part of an integrated team but will also demonstrate the ability to work using your own initiative.

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

• We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with excellent development opportunities.
• We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network.
• The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
• We are committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Elizabeth Henson Job title: Head of Family Health and Support Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07769367161

Rachel Hatton Practice Teacher Health Visitor

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07901 705 234