SCPHN/Practice Teacher - Health Visiting

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; Walsall; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An integrated healthcare provider in Walsall seeks a qualified Health Visiting Community Practice Teacher. You will support SCPHN students in community settings, design educational programmes, and ensure high standards of care are maintained. The role emphasizes leadership and quality improvement within the service. If you have a commitment to fostering a positive learning environment, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified Health Visiting Community Practice Teacher.
• Ability to support and guide SCPHN students.
• Demonstrate leadership skills and influence quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate learning for SCPHN students in community settings.
• Design and assess learning programmes.
• Support Clinical Team Leaders in delivering high-quality care.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Health Visiting Community Practice Teacher. You will be responsible for supporting Health Visiting SPHN Students.

A Community Practice Teacher enables a good learning environment for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing students in community settings and is essential to equip the workforce for the future and ensure that all learners have a positive experience.

All students completing SCPHN educational programmes must, under the guidance of practice supervisors and practice assessors, demonstrate achievement of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2022) Standards of Proficiency for SCPHN practice. The Community Practice Teachers role is to ensure that this learning is facilitated in practice. Community Practice Teachers design programmes of learning which are then delivered and assessed within the community. The teaching role is undertaken alongside the management of a caseload of families. The Practice Teacher should demonstrate their commitment to a culture for learning by supporting student SCPHNS to develop and learn whilst embedding the eight principles for an effective learning environment.

Community Practice Teachers need to ensure that they demonstrate their leadership skills whilst ensuring they influence upon quality improvement within the service whilst ensuring up to date evidence based practice disseminated wider within the service. Community Practice Teachers will support the Clinical Team Leaders to ensure that staff within the service continue to deliver safe and high quality evidence based care.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state‑of‑the‑art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.