Band 5 Clinical Educator – Education
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
To assist in the provision of support for candidates registered on the Trainee Nursing Associate programme. The post holder will be required to work across-site providing support for trainees in both the acute and community setting. To work in conjunction with other Educators to promote and support the delivery of a range of generic and bespoke learning activities for new and existing Trainee Nursing Associates. To support the co-ordination, facilitation and delivery of induction programmes for Trainee Nursing Associates to meet the organisation's current and future workforce needs. To support learners to overcome barriers to learning and provide opportunities to develop knowledge and skills.
About Us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse on the NMC Register
- Qualified Nurse who has been trained as a (Gold Kudos/ equivalent) Practice Supervisor and Practice Assessor in accordance with NMC standards
- Continuing professional development
- Level 5 Diploma in Education, Training and Learning
- Significant experience working as Registered Nurse in an acute healthcare setting
- Evidence of working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing and receiving complex sensitive information
- Evidence of training, assessing, supervising and developing staff in providing nursing care
- Recent experience of supporting/ facilitating learning
- Understanding and acts within NMC professional standards of practice contained within the NMC code of conduct
- Understanding of the principles of safeguarding and Mental Capacity
- Awareness of health and safety issues
- Has knowledge in relation to the parameters and scope of practice in which the post holder should work and when to seek advice and support/ escalate of others for expert help and advice.
- Knowledge of Standards for student supervision and assessment NMC 2018
- Understanding on learning methods
- Experience of working with multiple internal and external education stakeholders
- Can demonstrate an understanding of the elements associated with NMC Revalidation
- National workforce priorities
Essential
- Ability to promote an effective learning environment
- IT skills and ability to produce web-based resources and to record information electronically
- Ability to challenge others
- Ability to manage change
- Facilitation, persuasion and negotiation skills
- Learning and presentation skills
- Ability to adapt and change the learning method or approach depending on the situation at the time e.g. cardiac arrest
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of health care professionals, on a variety of complex and sensitive issues which require persuasive and empathetic skills.
- Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload (to patient families and students)
- Ability to work under pressure across competing priorities, Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- Ability to participate in reflective practice (own and as learning for students/ Nursing associates) and clinical supervision activities
- Team Player
- Ability to articulate and motivate others
- Ability to recognise where there maybe performance concerns and support with the performance improvement plans
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Ability to influence others
- Flexibility to meet service needs
- Ability to work and travel across all UHB sites as required by the role
- Experience of working with multiple internal and external education stakeholders
- Can demonstrate an understanding of the elements associated with NMC Revalidation
- National workforce priorities
- Providing information advice and guidance on career development
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.