Job overview
The role of Clinical Educator requires you to take the lead for the training and education of nursing staff, of all grades with the support of the senior sister/charge nurses and GI unit leadership team. Working collabratively with the GI team within the clinical area to ensure all staff are delivering high standard, evidence based practice and effective leadership. This ensure that all staff are working with the hospital policies and JAG standards.
The clinical Educator is an important role to support staff retention by focusing and promoting clinical support, job satisfaction and opportunities for staff personal and professional development. The role will involve managing & maintaining training records and ensure fairness and transparency of training resource allocation.
Main duties of the job
Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model.
Act with professionalism and integrity, and work within agreed professional, ethical and legal frameworks and processes to maintain and improve standards.
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
1. Registered Nurse
2. QCF Assessor Award, Mentorship or Teaching qualification. Appropriate clinical qualification/ experience in endoscopy nursing
3. Advanced communications skills training or willingness to undertake.
4. Psychological assessment skills training or willingness to undertake.
5. Minimum 2 years post registration.
6. Currently working in a senior position in Endoscopy for past 2 years.
7. Evidence of progressing and sustaining changes in clinical practice
8. Excellent organisational, line management, interpersonal and leadership skills.
9. An ability to perform clinical skills with dexterity
10. To have knowledge and understanding to be able to act as a resource and support the nursing team to provide high quality, evidence-based care. Has relevant knowledge to be able to assist with the co-ordination of staff training to ensure a high professional standard in all aspects of patient care
11. To have relevant knowledge and experience to act as a resource within the Endoscopy unit to provide the nursing team with professional development and education in consultation with the Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse and GI Unit Leadership Team
12. Have an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the JETS Workforce and ENDO 1 training
13. To work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
14. Role modelling clinical leadership
15. Team player but able to work autonomously. Excellent communication skills (verbal, non-verbal and written) with sensitive information.
16. Evidence of education to post graduate diploma level BSc in Nursing or health related subject or working towards Teaching and mentoring training preferred
Desirable criteria
17. Physical assessment and history taking, assess patients, plan care, deliver care and evaluate the effectiveness of care given.
18. Ordering diagnostic tests and interpretation of results
19. Skill in critical analysis and ability to act on audit and clinical outcomes data.
20. Completion of Good Clinical Practice Training
21. Further Education and training to master’s Level
22. Experience as band 6
shortlisting
Essential criteria
23. Registered Nurse Evidence of education to post graduate diploma level BSc in Nursing or health related subject or working towards Teaching and mentoring training preferred
Desirable criteria
24. Passionate and committed to bring our values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality, diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
These include but aren't limited to:-
25. Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
26. Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
27. An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
28. Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
29. Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
30. An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
31. Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
32. Cycle to work scheme
33. Uniform provided (where required)
34. On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
35. On site health and fitness club
36. On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
37. Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.