Job overview
Are you looking for the next step in your career, to help deliver high quality care and support teams in reaching their full potential through training and education? We have an exciting opportunity for a Band Practice Educator for Theatres. Come join our team and help change lives for the better.
The post holder will be expected to support and educate nursing and operating department practitioners in clinical and non-clinical skills at different levels across Surgery, Women’s & Oncology Theatres (SUWON Theatres). This post is primarily aimed at supporting the Theatre team in improving skills and knowledge, empowering staff to deliver best possible evidenced based care.
SUWON Theatres comprises of nineteen Theatres, two Day Surgery/Theatre Direct Admissions Unit and a level two Overnight Recovery Unit.
Our Team are passionate about learning, continuous improvement and excelling through innovation, research and development. We are seeking like-minded people as we strive to deliver excellence in healthcare for our patients.
Our departmental values reflect the values of our Trust, putting patients at the heart of everything we do, encouraging a spirit of support, integrity, respect and teamwork, taking pride in the quality of care we deliver and continually striving to improve through education and change.
This role is based in Churchill Theatres with cross site working in Women’s Centre & Horton Theatres.
Main duties of the job
You will share clinical skills and knowledge in collaboration with educational plans, to ensure on-going clinical competency validation, alongside core skills and essential education for clinical staff. The role will focus on improving quality and efficiency in clinical care, through education, to enhance positive patient care outcomes. In addition to delivering classroom based education, there is an expectation that the successful candidate will work with clinical staff in the operating theatre department to ensure that competency assessments are carried out in a timely manner to improve patient care. A key role will be supporting and facilitating placements for a variety of healthcare students and their supervisors/assessors in co-operation with Oxford Brookes University and Bucks New University. Experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting and excellent communication skills are essential for this role. Willingness to pursue a Master’s level qualification in education will also be expected if the applicant is not already working towards this qualification.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research. Find out more here
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.