Job overview
The Practice Educator within the Nursing & Patient Experience team operates as an autonomous service designed primarily to pan trust learners.
The purpose of this post is to support learning and education in Graduate and International Nursing.
You will facilitate through education to post graduate nurses including international nurses in the Trust, working alongside our clinical education teams, ward managers, preceptors and our external partners.
We are seeking to employ an enthusiastic, innovative, and motivated registered nurse to work in the field of clinical education. You will have the opportunity to work across a variety of
clinical settings, network across our external partners, and support the future nursing workforce. You will be supported in a passionate and friendly team of nurse educators, and actively encouraged to further your development in the role.
You will have proven clinical experience as an experienced Band 5 or 6
and significant experience of working with and developing nurses.
This role is offered on the basis of a WTE of hours a week as a fixed/secondment opportunity
Main duties of the job
* Be a highly visible clinical role model, working alongside staff in clinical practice.
* Work clinically to maintain own knowledge, skills, and clinical credibility, demonstrating high standards of practice and clinical expertise in the care of children, young people, and their families
* Be prepared to work alongside colleagues in non-nursing roles to understand the requirements of different professions/areas.
* Work with education leads, managers, and supervisors to establish mechanisms for enhancing, developing, and assessing the quality of non-nursing placement learning
* Co-ordinate and deliver work-based learning and other CPD programmes as required
* Advise individuals and teams about educational opportunities
* Utilise, develop, and review tools to audit and evaluate educational and professional practice and education programmes/materials
* To review course evaluations and analyse results.
* Represent the GOSH Learning Academy, and Nursing and Patient Experience at Trust wide and external meetings and in response to Trust wide quality improvement initiatives
* Maintain a good working relationship with the academic partners, professional bodies, and organisations
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Working for our organisation
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a fair, open and consistent process that is free from bias and discrimination.
We are working towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. This means creating a workplace where every colleague feels seen, heard and valued, and where racism in any form has no place. Our anti-racism commitment is backed by action through our Anti-Racism Statement and action plan, developed in collaboration with our REACH staff network.
We actively challenge discrimination, dismantle barriers and embed equity across all aspects of our workforce, including recruitment, progression and development. All applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health condition or employment history.
We particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+ community members. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
Our staff networks, including REACH, PRIDE, ENABLED and Women’s Networks, are active and executive supported. These employee-led networks play a vital role in shaping an inclusive culture at GOSH and are open to all colleagues.
Together, we are building a culture where inclusion is not optional - it is essential.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
GOSH Culture and Values
Essential criteria
* Our Always values
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential criteria
* Registered Nurse, with paediatric experience
* Assessor/Supervisor certification
* Teaching qualification (PG Certificate Practice Education or equivalent) or willingness to undertake
* Evidence of on-going professional development within the clinical speciality
Desirable criteria
* Postgraduate degree qualification
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Experience with education in the healthcare setting
* Demonstrable experience either within clinical education or the clinical environment
* Experience of coordinating and managing either staff or patients
* Ability to prioritise workload and work to deadlines
* Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
* Understanding of inter-professional education
* Understanding of professional and current issues in children’s nursing
Desirable criteria
* Management of poor performance
* Experience of working in collaboration with an external partner or HEI
* Experience in delivering the NMC OSCE Assessment
* Previous experience of research and audit
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
* Excellent relevant paediatric clinical skills
* Excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills
* Able to motivate and develop a multi-professional team
* Able to problem solve and initiate change
* Negotiating skills
* Self-discipline and good time management to support periods of lone working
* Ability to delegate and prioritise
* Able to work across professional boundaries
* Computer literate