Regional Clinical Training Specialist. Job in London Education & Training Jobs

Vantive; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in home therapies is seeking a Clinical Training Specialist to provide comprehensive training for patients and healthcare professionals in Peritoneal Dialysis. The role emphasizes collaboration with healthcare teams, innovative teaching practices, and quality training delivery. Candidates should possess a Nursing degree, strong communication skills, and a minimum of three years' clinical nursing experience, with flexibility to travel across the London area.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of clinical nursing experience is preferred.
• Current NMC registration is essential.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are vital.

Responsibilities

• Teach patients effective self-management of Peritoneal Dialysis.
• Educate healthcare professionals on patient training methods.
• Support internal training initiatives to drive clinical excellence.

Skills

Teaching and communication skills

Problem solving

Computer literacy - Office 365

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Post registration study

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Training Specialist to cover the London area.

The Clinical Training Specialist (CTS) role is a Training and Education expert in Home Therapies. The CTS partners with referring units to teach patients and healthcare professionals best practice in Peritoneal Dialysis (PD). The CTS works to fulfil the demand for patient training to ensure that patients are expertly and appropriately trained on Vantive's therapies in order to optimise outcomes and to minimize avoidable technique failures.

The CTS role works in alignment with the renal commercial team to identify and support units with healthcare professional education and upskilling on peritoneal dialysis therapy and devices.

Critical to the success of the role is the use of innovative evidence-based teaching practices, to teach and educate staff and patients in order to improve technique and therapy success. This role is in the field primarily based in an allocated region and Education Centre EC, CTSs and other field-based CTSs the role needs to be flexibility to meet the demand for patient and staff training.

The CTS role will primarily be based in an allocated region and the regional BEC site but may be asked to cover other regions at times. The focus will be on small group training in the community, EC or NHS trust sites of patients and or healthcare professionals, with some need for face-to-face training in patients' homes.

What are your Responsibilities?

• Teach and empower patients in self-management of PD by providing high quality evidence-based patient training to patients following referral from NHS hospitals at EC, in the patient's own home or hospital as required.
• Educate, advise, and train healthcare professionals on best practice patient training methods for PD, adopting a train the trainer approach where needed, to maintain and develop skills in the referring hospitals.
• Supporting in on site education of junior healthcare teams in basic and essential skills for managing patients on PD therapy.
• Work closely with Renal Therapy Specialist to assist with education plans for specific identified hospitals in line with agreed growth plans.
• Work closely with teaching hospitals to allow the center to be used as an education environment for observation of training particularly Renal Course nurses and new to PD nurses.
• Complete high quality training records, document training provided and feedback to hospital staff.
• Provide innovative refresher and follow-up training support for patients.
• Ensure product knowledge remains current and evidence based, making time to read journals and attend conferences
• Attend and contribute to Regional Business Meetings to ensure activities are aligned and market knowledge is transferred as appropriate
• Provide patient and customer feedback and act as a subject matter expert to sales and marketing teams on designing and improving new/existing materials based on patient and customer needs
• Support internal training initiatives as subject matter experts to drive clinical excellence amongst the Baxter commercial teams.
• Support the EC Managers in maintaining Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulations and be inspection ready.
• Safeguarding the wellbeing of service users and staff.
• Regular auditing to monitor the quality of our education service any concerns and complaints to ensure continuous improvement.
• Participate in governance processes identifying learning opportunities.
• Support the PD knowledge and development of NHS staff and provide educational sessions on basic skills either face to face or remotely.
• Provide a flexible responsive training resource that can be utilized in NHS trusts.
• Provide high quality patient training via a remote platform should the patient need this service.

We are presently seeking people who have:

• Nursing degree or equivalent Nursing qualification required. (Essential)
• Currently listed on NMC register (Adult) (Essential)
• Evidence of post registration study. (Essential)
• Computer literacy skills - Office 365 (Essential)
• Demonstrate strong teaching and communication skills, both written and verbal, to support training and education services with patients and customers (internal and external) (Essential)
• Able to work effectively both independently and within a team environment (Essential)
• Flexible approach to problem solving (Essential)
• Confident and clinically credible (Essential)
• Driving License (Essential)
• Minimum 3 years of clinical nursing experience (Advantage)
• An interest or experience of teaching and educational processes; in particular, teaching patients (Advantage)
• A knowledge of dialysis systems and processes (Advantage)
• Customer relationship building skills (Advantage)