Job responsibilities
TERMS:
Full time role - 37.5 hours
Permanent role (but secondment and fixed term opportunities will
be considered).
Job share roles will be considered
Office space available at both Fylde Coast and Morecambe Bay
Training Hubs with the option of some remote working
Travel will be expected across the Fylde Coast and Morecambe Bay area
JOB SUMMARY:
The post
holder will be a Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional.
An
opportunity has arisen for a General Practice Education Facilitator (GPEF), to
join the Training Hub covering the Fylde Coast and Morecambe Bay localities.
You will be
highly motivated, thrive on the supporting the development of learners and will
be able to provide the very best educational opportunities. The post holder
will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality
multi-professional learning and will be required to support the breadth of the
student, irrespective of grade or profession to ensure that learning
opportunities are maximised.
CORE ELEMENTS:
To act as a representative for
clinical education at local and regional level ensuring that national quality
standards are met within practice placements and to provide all students an
experience of the highest quality.
Able to identify trends in
work-based learning and working in partnership with supervisors, assessors, and
managers to ensure the learning needs of students are met in the workplace.
Able to ensure that learning
opportunities are maximised in the clinical placement environment for all
learners by evaluating training and development programmes and implementing
changes based on evidence gathered.
Able to identify and promote
opportunities for partnership working across a range of professional groups and
agencies.
To maintain a robust database of
audits of all clinical placements as well as up to date records of all
supervisors and assessors across your localities.
Work with the Training Hub Leads
and Operations Manager in each locality to influence educators and managers to
continue to offer placements in times of great demand on clinicians and
services, balancing the need for increasing clinical placements while ensuring
consistency in the quality of placements.
QUALITY
ASSURANCE:
With support from the Training Hub
Leads and Operations Managers in each locality, take the lead in multi
professional quality assurance monitoring/audits of clinical education in
practice within primary care and in accordance with quality assurance standards
in partnership with education providers.
Assess the quality of learning
environments against quality assurance standards, suggesting improvement
measures to enhance learner experience.
Where necessary, work with the
various clinical placement providers ensuring they have relevant and up to date
SMART action plans in place to address any gaps in resources, education,
development and knowledge in relation to the learning environment, which then feeds
into the audit/quality monitoring visits.
Maintain records and ensure all
educators, assessors and supervisors are trained and up to date in accordance
with the relevant regulatory body standards in relation to supporting and
educating learners in practice.
Provide best practice advice in a
clinical setting for supervisors and staff in relation to clinical education.
Constantly seek to improve the
quality of clinical education using evidence-based practice, liaising with
professional colleagues, reviewing literature and evaluating learner feedback.
Develop evaluation methods to
assess the impact of clinical education practice on patient care.
Support both learners and
educators/mentors/supervisor/assessors with risk assessment to ensure health
and safety within the practice
Work in partnership with the
educational institutes in the planning, delivery and development of programmes across
primary care.
STUDENT
SUPPORT:
Ensure high quality learning
experiences are provided for all learners within primary care across your
localities.
Visit students (ad-hoc) within their
placement supporting them with their education and assessments as well as
ensuring no learning opportunity is missed.
Support the
quality of clinical placement learning environments by ensuring all placement
providers have up to date learning outcomes and understand the requirements of
the learners whilst on placement.
Ensure all learners are provided
with a multi professional placement booklet/portfolio to provide information
about the experiences they may be able to access within the practice.
Ensure all learners are provided
with a strategic and local induction at commencement of placement.
Support the development of a multiprofessional,
evidence-based educational/learning programmes (virtual or face to face) in
relation to primary care to enhance the learning experience. i.e. CDM,
immunisation awareness, vaccinations, wound care, contraception, health
promotion, NHS screening etc.
Where necessary, work alongside clinical
educators, assessors, and supervisors in practice to support student
development.
Support educators, assessors and
supervisors in complex decisions relating to the learner experience
including the achievement of learning outcomes, competence, and fitness
for practice.
ALLOCATIONS
AND CAPACITY:
Facilitate the development of our
portfolio of clinical practice educators, assessors and supervisors, providing
support structures in order to build capacity, capability, consistency and
efficiency.
With support from the Training Hub Leads and
Operations Managers in each locality, identify and develop new clinical
placement capacity for our leaners across our area by networking with
clinical teams and managers to explore all possible learning
opportunities.
Support the Training Hub to map
annual allocation of all learner placement plans for each programme of learning
at each higher education institute to enable long term capacity planning.
Balance the need for increasing
the availability of practice placements while ensuring a consistency in the quality
of placements.
Influence practice management, educators,
supervisors and assessor to continue to offer placements in times of great
demands on clinicians and services and encouraging them to overcome barriers
such as lack of funding, time, and space for student placements.
Identify further learning
experiences that will enhance learning opportunities.
COMMUNICATION:
Communicate educational and
practice information across placement providers and education institutions and
undertake presentations relating to education in practice where necessary.
Network locally, regionally, and
nationally with peer groups to support the sharing of best practice.
Ensure
communication channels are used appropriately to facilitate the flow of information
between internal and external partners.
Ensure confidentiality for all
stakeholders is always adhered to.
OTHER:
Ensure that equality and diversity
issues are recognised, addressed in accordance with legislation, policies, and
procedures.
Understand the clinical,
educational bodies and regulations associated with Health and Social Care
professionals working within primary care.
Flexibility to adapt the role as
required due to the evolving nature and growth of the Training Hubs across each
locality.