Overview
Employer: NHS Jobs
Location: Hereford, HR1 4HA
Pay: £32,693.00 to £37,614.00 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Disability Confident: No
Closing Date: 27/06/2026
About this job
Job title: Teacher/Practitioner (Developmental Post). Spinal Point Range: 13, 15, 18. Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Min 30 hours per week). Department: Education. Location: St Michaels Hospice, Bartestree and other locations as necessary. Reports to: Lead Teacher/Practitioner. Financial Responsibility: No direct financial responsibilities. Job Purpose: To develop and apply the skills required to educate, train, and support both clinical and non-clinical staff. To enhance the quality of palliative and end-of-life care delivery through the promotion of evidence-based practice internally and externally. To actively engage in and successfully complete a structured development programme to support progression to a Teacher Practitioner role.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the delivery of academic and vocational teaching across a range of palliative care topics including assessment of learners.
- Assist with the identification & support of staff in the clinical setting with their on-going CPD, including internal & external students.
- Assist with the development of learning materials and facilitation of learning with a wide range of individuals and groups internal and external.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of work experience programmes; contribute to operation of library & stock renewal.
- Support the Leading, management & delivery of functional skills training in line with National Numeracy & BKSB (Health Education England).
- Assist with Volunteer librarian (x1); in-house students (TNA / RNDA & others) (x 2-6).
- Planning: Assist with planning and managing the annual programme of education.
- Develop the ability to plan learning and teaching activities linked to service delivery needs.
- Develop the ability to plan, cost and deliver tailor-made training to external organisations & individuals.
- Develop the ability to assist with planning individualised induction and ongoing training requirements for clinical & non-clinical staff & volunteers.
- Communication: Develop the skills to represent the organisation externally (Higher Education, care homes; care agencies, NHS Trusts, wider hospice movement, health and social care education focus groups).
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure work streams complement each other.
- Develop and share evidence-based knowledge and skills internally and externally which may influence and change practice to achieve desired outcomes.
- Problem Solving and Innovation: Develop resources and strategies for promotion of best practice; respond to internal & external requests for clinical support & advice.
- Ensure learning and teaching is based on an appropriate evidence base linked to regulatory frameworks (e.g., NICE, NMC, AHP, GMC, CQC).
- Contribute to the development of new learning programmes and clinical policies and care plans.
Qualifications and Experience
1) Specialist Knowledge and Experience
- Essential: Professional Nursing Registration with NMC; relevant 1st level degree as minimum qualification; registered nursing care experience in a clinical care setting for at least 1 year.
- Desirable or willingness to work towards: NVQ Assessor qualification or equivalent; mentoring & assessor qualification; teaching qualification (PGCE or equivalent); IT skills across a range of IT software; philosophies & principles of palliative care.
- Leadership & Management or Coaching qualification; MSc level qualification in a relevant subject; facilitating clinical skills & simulation training; facilitating advanced communication skills.
2) Skills and Behaviours
- Leadership: motivates & empowers others to reach organisational goals.
- Communication: speaks confidently and fluently; holds others’ attention when speaking; writes fluently, clearly and concisely; adapts communication style to suit others.
- Persuasiveness: influences, convinces or impresses others to achieve acceptance or behaviour change.
- Relating to others: quickly builds rapport and establishes relationships; relates well to different types of people, listens and gets on with them.
- Quality Orientation: provides a quality service; aware of goals and standards; ensures quality is met.
- Organisation: manages own time effectively; prioritises and prepares in advance; sets realistic time-scales.
Special Conditions
- This post is conditional to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
- Requirement to work flexibly to meet needs of the service.
- Must be willing to travel across the county and beyond as required.
- Required to work occasional evenings and weekends.
- Required to work in a variety of clinical settings with direct patient/care contact.
Values and Equal Opportunities
Our values: Knowledge, judgment, and kindness in reaching the best possible decisions; courage, integrity, and passion in realising those decisions; honesty, empathy, and determination in doing so at the best possible time. Living our values influences the way we behave, and the way we do things at St Michaels.
Equal Opportunities Statement: At St Michaels Hospice we are committed to an equal opportunities approach in everything we do. This includes treating patients, families, donors, volunteers and staff fairly, appropriately, and with dignity and respect.
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