Job overview
This is a month secondment opportunity to work as the Divisional Education Lead for MRC Division to ensure alignment between Corporate and Divisional education and training activity and the Trust Strategic objectives.
The key aspects of the role will be:
1. Provide strategic leadership which aligns with educational priorities.
2. Lead the training needs analysis mapping and manage CPD budget ensuring efficient, equitable and effective spend.
3. Divisional representation at key meetings/ provide education representation at trust wide forums
4. Provide leadership and coordination of practice development workforce and activities
5. Coordinate timely and standardised education activity in response to learning from harms free events and trust wide priorities
6. Implement and lead changes from a Trust Education review into practice.
This provides a pivotal role in ensuring alignment of Corporate and Divisional education and training activity for the non-medical clinical workforce. The post holder is required to support informed investment of education resources to meet both Trust and Divisional objectives and priorities that realise demonstrable benefit to patients.
Each Divisional Lead for Practice Development will work collegiately across the Trust to ensure standards are established and sustained, particularly those related to skills development and patient safety. This will necessitate at times being required to take a lead organisational role for a particular education initiative.
Main duties of the job
7. Align clinical practice development and education with both the Division and Trust’s strategic objectives.
8. Engage in the Trust’s workforce and education forum to disseminate best practice and align standards to Trust policy, procedures and initiatives.
9. Undertake a Divisional training needs analysis to inform education investment based on priorities and risks.
10. Ensure corporate standardisation of learning outcomes, particularly in relation to skills development and patient safety.
11. Establish transparent mechanisms to monitor education investment, activities and outcomes.
12. Support a Trust wide, transparent and coherent career pathway for clinical education roles.
13. Take lead responsibility for Pathway to Excellence/Magnet education related activity to comply with requirements via the Nursing and Midwifery Board.
14. Support the development, progress and sustainability of clinical quality improvement initiatives within the Division and Trust-wide.
15. Support the recognition, development and sustainability of innovation.
16. Manage non-medical practice development and education activity within the Division to establish and maintain a transparent relationship between this and promotion of enhanced patient outcomes.
17. Establish & maintain relationships to further develop clinical learning environments to promote and embed inter-professional learning.
18. Support visibility of clinical practice development activities and outcomes through the initiation, promotion and support of research activities.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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