Student Support Practitioner

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust; Wimborne Minster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Student Support Practitioner to join their Practice Development Team. The role entails supporting multidisciplinary learners during placements, influencing the quality of their educational experience, and acting as a link between educational institutions and clinical placements. Ideal candidates should be registered health care professionals with advanced communication skills and experience in mental health services. This position offers a dynamic working environment and the chance to impact the future of healthcare training.

Qualifications

• Registered health care professional with relevant council.
• Experience working in mental health services preferred.
• Capable of flexible work and travel across Trust sites.

Responsibilities

• Support multidisciplinary learners on placement.
• Influence quality of the learning environment.
• Manage placement negotiations and allocations.
• Provide pastoral support for learners and supervisors.
• Train placement supervisors and maintain records.
• Forge strong relationships with clinical staff.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Experience in mental health services

Ability to travel

Education

Health care professional registered with Nursing & Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professions Council

Job description

Overview

Are you looking to join a friendly, supportive and innovative team where your voice will be heard, your contributions valued and your skills and experience celebrated? Are you ready to shape and influence our patient’s experience through the support and development of students and apprentices and their placements in order to provide the NHS with a compassionate and effective future workforce? If you answered “yes” to these questions, you may be the person we are looking for to join our Practice Development Team as a Student Support Practitioner.

You will be a health care professional registered with either the Nursing & Midwifery Council or the Health and Care Professions Council and ideally have experience of working in mental health services. This role offers the opportunity to review current learning, positively impact student experiences through pastoral support, and help shape service-learning culture. Using advanced communication skills, the post holder will engage with a range of staff and services across mainly mental health clinical environments to inform and influence practice from an educational perspective and to negotiate and plan placements.

Responsibilities

• Support multidisciplinary, pre-registration learners on placement across the organisation as part of the Student Support Team.
• Support, influence and improve the quality of the learning environment by providing advice, supervision and guidance for learners, enabling the delivery of high-quality patient-centred care.
• Work with and act as the conduit between higher education institutions (HEIs) and placements to plan placements that maximise learners’ needs, consider new programmes and expand capacity.
• Internally manage, negotiate and allocate capacity to meet the different needs of Higher Education Institutes.
• Provide pastoral and professional practice support for learners and placement supervisors/assessors; provide supervisor/assessor training and maintain records.
• Travel to support learners and placements across Trust sites as required, and work flexibly to meet team requirements.
• Facilitate direct and indirect support, guidance and pastoral support to pre-registration learners, Practice Supervisors, Practice Assessors and Practice Educators to support learning in practice placements, forging strong relationships with partners across the region and with clinical staff in various learning environments.

Qualifications and Experience

• Health care professional registered with either the Nursing & Midwifery Council or the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Ideally experience of working in mental health services.
• Ability to travel to support learners and placements across Trust sites; capable of working flexibly to meet team needs.
• Advanced communication skills to engage with staff across services and to inform and influence educational practice.

Working Environment

At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people. We’re an inclusive workplace that values equality, diversity and authentic collaboration, where everyone is welcome and encouraged to be the best version of themselves.

How to Apply

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chris Pitt
Job title: Pre-registration Student Lead
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]