Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Emergency Department for a Practice Educator, working alongside the Practice Development Nurse.
The roles will be supporting adult and paediatric nurses working in the Emergency Department.
The ED at Luton is a busy fast paced environment seeing a wide range of patient groups presenting with a variety of presentations from acute trauma to medical and surgical emergencies.
Supporting our nurses in practice bridging their knowledge and skills gap to help them reach their clinical potential while supporting them pastorally will improve staff retention, patient care and also give you an immense sense of job satisfaction.
Main duties of the job
To develop and deliver clinical skills and vocational training programmes for multi-professional audiences in support of identified training needs to support the delivery of learning within the Emergency Department (ED) in conjunction with the Emergency Department Practice Development Nurse (PDN).
To work alongside ED nursing staff in clinical areas, offering 1:1 clinical teaching with guidance and supervision.
To actively promote patient safety and, through the facilitation of training programmes, departmental teaching or coaching ensure that learning reflects improvements to the patient experience. To manage the process of assessment of clinical skills, ensuring that competency data is collected, maintained and reported on a quarterly basis to the divisional Matron via the Emergency Department PDN.
The expectation is that this role will be based in a clinical area.
Working for our organisation
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.
Our Values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description attached
Clinical Skills Training
1. To deliver agreed training programmes for clinical practice in support of the Trust’s Development Strategy ensuring that the programmes are updated; evidence based and that the process for assessed practice is monitored.
2. To provide on-going support and assessment of clinical skills such as those requiring competency sign off in the practice areas ensuring the assessment documentation is completed to the expected standard creating an atmosphere conducive to learning i.e. Preceptorship Handbook, Care certificate, Apprenticeship course.
3. To actively encourage and participate in sharing good practice throughout the Emergency Department with multi-professional staff.
4. To contribute to the training needs analysis of each clinical area in liaison with Emergency Department PDN.
5. In liaison with Emergency Department PDN develop and facilitate new clinical skills training programmes and to design competency based training programmes where they do not exist to meet those needs.
6. To contribute to the quality control aspects of Education ensuring that the standards required of the Educational governance from the Health Education East of England are maintained.
7. To deliver training on new clinical equipment in each area.
8. To support the newly qualified nurses at the Trust throughout the preceptorship period and assist in the delivery of the preceptorship competency programme.
9. To support Training nurse associate, Nurse associate, health care assistants and technicians.
Managerial Responsibilities
10. To take part in sharing good practice days for multi-professional staff, raising awareness of development opportunities throughout the Trust.
11. To participate in recruitment and selection of staff for Student Nurses, Return to Practice students as and when appropriate.
12. To be actively involved in promoting good communication between wards/departments.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
13. NMC registered
14. MSPP or equivalent
15. ALS
16. Safeguarding level 3
17. EPALS/APLS
Desirable criteria
18. ALS/EPALS instructor
19. Postgraduates or Masters Level course
Experience
Essential criteria
20. The relevant ED experience
21. Has worked as a band 6
22. Experience of mentoring or supervising Students
23. Experience of mentoring or supervising Staff
Desirable criteria
24. Experience of variety of teaching methods
25. Has taken part in audit
Knowledge
Essential criteria
26. Understanding of the need of confidentiality awareness at all times.
27. Evidence and awareness of customer care
Desirable criteria
28. People Management
29. Knowledge of In Phase
Skills
Essential criteria
30. Broad range of clinical skills with recent clinical experience.
31. Can lead by example and challenge bad practice.
32. Excellent written communication skills
Desirable criteria
33. Experience of change management
34. The ability to develop learning and action plans
35. The Ability to plan, organize and deliver training sessions
personal skill
Essential criteria
36. Examples of ability to work as part of a team
37. Enthusiastic application demonstration that they are a change agent.
38. Committed to own and others personal and professional development
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.