Job Overview
We are looking for a passionate, supportive, and dedicated individual to facilitate the delivery of the Care Certificate and HCSW (Health Care Support Worker) induction program. This role involves guiding and mentoring learners, ensuring they gain the essential knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide high-quality patient care.
This is a developmental training post commencing at Band 3 for the role of Care Certificate Facilitator. The post holder will undertake an Assistant Practitioner Apprenticeship, and upon successful completion, will progress to a Band 4 Care Certificate Facilitator position.
Main duties of the job
The Care Certificate Facilitator is responsible for supporting the delivery and teaching of the Health Care Support Worker induction programme and clinical support for all learners on the Care Certificate to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
The Care Certificate facilitator will be working clinically for a minimum of 80% contracted work time and will be promoting best practice through education and clinical support.
You will also be maintaining a database of ongoing assessment for the Care Certificate.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Achieved Foundation degree or equivalent
* Nursing Qualification from EU or Non-EU
* Maths and English GCSE C+ or Functional Skills Maths and English Level 2
* Successful completion of the Care Certificate
Experience
Essential criteria
* Some experience of working in an acute care setting
* Customer care experience
Desirable criteria
* Experience of teaching/ facilitating learning
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Clear and accurate written and verbal communication skills.
* Ability to work autonomously, proactively and as part of a team
* Ability to prepare, deliver and evaluate Care Certificate programme
Desirable criteria
* Coaching and Mentoring skills
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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