Clinical Educator (Clinical Apprenticeships)
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals to apply for the post of Clinical Educator for Apprenticeships, Clinical Skills and Care Certificate within the Department of Professional Healthcare Education at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.
This role is a great opportunity for an experienced registered nurse or registered healthcare professional with excellent interpersonal and clinical skills to support and coordinate the development of education programmes for staff new to care, those on apprenticeship journeys or supporting with clinical skills to support our staff to safely care for our patients.
They will coordinate educational activities and assessments of learning within the department, working in conjunction with clinical educators and managers throughout the Trust.
Experience of teaching and mentoring is essential with evidence of ongoing personal and professional development.
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
Main duties of the job
Manage the delivery of the care certificate and clinical skills programme ensuring it is contemporary and responsive to organisational and patient pathway needs.
Co-ordinate the care certificate and clinical skills programme delivery, content, structure and clinical competency development.
Maintain a specialist knowledge base to ensure care certificate and clinical skills development for the organisation is evidence based.
Facilitate and lead the delivery of the clinical apprenticeship programmes liaising with educational providers and acting as the conduit between clinical practices.
Provide the educational support structure for clinical apprenticeships across the organisation.
Working for our organisation
We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Facilitate the delivery of proactive and responsive apprenticeship training, which is compliant with National Apprenticeship standards and is achievable within clinical practice and the changing needs and environs of patient care.
Facilitate, evaluate and deliver the Clinical Skills Portfolio, maintaining contemporary programmes that meet the needs of the orga nisation
Facilitate the delivery of Care Certificate, which is an identified set of standards, designed by NHS England, that health and care professionals adhere to in their daily working life. Designed with the non-regulated workforce in mind, the Care Certificate gives everyone the confidence that health and care professionals have the same introductory skills, knowledge and behaviours to provide compassionate, safe and high-quality care and support in their own particular workplace setting.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered professional i.e.: NMC/HCPC/AHP
* Post Graduate Certificate in Education or willing to work towards
* Proven evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge and Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working in a National Health Service provider unit
* Demonstrable Experience of managing learning and development projects and processes within a large organisation
* Demonstrable Extensive working knowledge of IT applications, Learning Management Systems and other systems (e.g. e-KSF) Data Collection audit & reporting
* Practical Demonstrable experience of the full training cycle: i.e. Identification of training needs, design & delivery of learning interventions, and experience of using evaluation models and approaches
* Demonstrable Experience in training delivery to a diverse range of adults
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY INCLUDING YOUR JUNK FOLDER.
If you need support with the online application process or require reasonable adjustments with the application and/or interview process please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post.
We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. We recommend contacting the manager of the role prior to applying and we commit to giving requests full consideration.
We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply for our roles. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves our patients' experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace and hospital where everyone feels they belong and included .
It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Providing false information is an offence & could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal/police action if an applicant is successful.
Please note that if you are successful in your application & accept the position you agree that the Staff Health and Wellbeing Department can access your health records from your current/previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations & screening tests. This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.
For Doctors Roles:
Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/Details
University Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.
We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.
In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team.
We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.
Any candidate details (whether written or spoken) or CVs that are referred directly will not constitute an introduction. The Trust will under no circumstances be responsible for any recruitment fees in relation to these contacts.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol.
In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co-operation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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