Senior Clinical Nurse Educator

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working where possible

27 days annual leave + bank holidays (

29/33 days after years of service

Regular appraisal and ongoing training

Maternity, paternity and adoption bene

Health service discounts and online福利

Incremental pay progression

Employee assistance programme 24/7

LGBT+ network

BAME Network

Christian Network

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Structured learning and development

Job summary

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced nurse to lead undergraduate medical education in psychiatry. You will join an award-winning medical education team, embracing lived experience as a strength and ensuring positive clinical learning on inpatient wards.

The post focuses on developing and delivering teaching to help medical students understand inpatient care, safety and care pathways, with a lead role coordinating across placement areas and maintaining high

Qualifications

• NMC registration is required.
• Degree-level qualification is required.
• Teaching qualification is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver medical education for students on inpatient psychiatry.
• Lead and coordinate teaching across clinical placement areas.
• Ensure staff attend statutory training and CPD.
• Promote lived experience as a learning tool.
• Support staff in implementing changes and problem solving.

Skills

Acute care understanding

Bedside teaching

Public speaking

Education

Degree level qualification

Teaching qualification

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity at the Trust for an experienced nurse who is passionate about teaching and has a desire to be an integral part of undergraduate medical education at Derbyshire Healthcare Mental Health NHS Trust.

You will be part of an award winning medical education team, with a warm and approachable environment and a strong belief in Lived Experience of mental ill health as a strength, not a weakness, and a powerful educational tool. We would expect you to share in these values.

The main purpose of the role is to develop medical education to enable medical students to grasp inpatient care and a thorough understanding of that environment, including how to achieve and maintain the safety and wellbeing of patients. Students should be able to absorb and participate in all activities relevant to care pathways.

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of the role is to develop and deliver medical education to enable medical students to grasp inpatient care in psychiatry in all its aspects and ensure students have positive clinical, learning experiences on inpatient wards.

A comprehensive knowledge of psychiatry is required for this, as the successful applicant will need to form the positive links between clinical placement areas so that students are able to absorb and participate in all activities relevant to care pathways.

Overcoming barriers in engaging and supporting inpatient staff to feel enabled to teach medical students within their clinical areas. To be a lead specialist in undergraduate medical education.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

The teams are made up of different disciplines, including Nurse Educators and Consultant Psychiatrists.

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible.
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service pro rata.
• Regular appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

Actively support the trusts development of professional roles and guidelines. Empower all team members to participate in implementing change by using problem solving, considering potential conflicts and planning resolution.

The post holder will ensure that the staff they are responsible for attend relevant statutory training as identified by the trust.

The post holder will support the development of annual skills profiling of their team.

To ensure that all clinical staff are offered opportunities to develop skills and knowledge, and keep up to date with current practice, attend accredited courses and engage in own continuous professional development..

The post holder will ensure good communication systems are in operation within the clinical area that enhance high quality care and teaching for example, IT, verbal, interpersonal, written.

Develop strategic thinking skills, promoting an umbrella view of clinical academic perspectives for the multi-professional team. Ensure that awareness of clinical and resource management information is used analytically to inform decisions that balance service user, student and educational objectives.

Promote the use of critical analysis points and innovative approaches to ensure education is reviewed according to student learning objective and university directions.

The post holder will ensure high standards of medical education are maintained within the team both through delivery and management.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NMC Registration
• Qualified to degree level
• Teaching Qualification

Skills

• Significant understanding of the acute care environment.
• Ability to facilitate and assess bedside teaching
• Public speaking and ability to present at high level conferences

Knowledge

• 3 years post qualified clinical experience
• Understanding of care pathways and multi-disciplinary practises.
• Experience of promoting and utilising the benefits of lived experience within medical education

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.

Psychiatry Teaching Unit Service Manager