General Practice Education Facilitator

Fernbank Surgery

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Job summary

The post holder will be a registered nurse or allied health professional.

This is a full time position - 37.5 hours per week

An opportunity has arisen for a band 7 equivalent (depending on experience) to join the Lancashire & South Cumbria Training Hub as General Practice Education Facilitator working across the Fylde Coast and Morecambe Bay area.

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.

Please ensure you read the Job description and Person Specification attached to the advert in full before applying

Informal enquiries are welcome and strongly encouraged. Please contact either

Laura-Jane Lloyd laurajane.lloyd@nhs.net

or

Boyana Konar boyana.konar@nhs.net

or

Tom Coulton thomas.coulton@nhs.net

Closing date: Sunday 12th September 2021

Shortlisting: Monday 13th September 2021

Interviews: Tuesday 21st September 2021

Main duties of the job

CORE ELEMENTS:

  • Act as a representative for clinical education at local and regional level
  • Ensure that national quality standards are met within practice placements
  • Provide all students an experience of the highest quality
  • 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 sure that learning opportunities are maximised in the clinical placement environment
  • 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 areas of responsibility
  • 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 quality

About us

Lancashire and South Cumbria Training Hub is made up of 5 Locality Training Hubs that match the ICP footprints Fylde Coast, Morecambe Bay, Pennine Lancashire, Greater Preston, Chorley and South Ribble and West Lancashire. The Hubs work together to form a multidisciplinary team of clinical and administrative professionals supporting Primary Care teams across the patch and promoting the positive impact of diversifying primary care roles.

We support Health Education England deliverables outlined in both the Common Operational Guidance and Quality Framework wit theprimary functions of: -

  • Develop and expand placement capacity
  • Ensure workforce planning is in place
  • Increase recruitment to Primary Care
  • Recruit and embed new roles
  • Retain the workforce within Primary Care
  • Offer placed based tariffs

Date posted

26 August 2021

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

A0341-21-1748

Job locations

Lytham Primary Care Centre

Victoria St

Lytham

Lancashire

FY8 5DZ


Job description

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.

Job description

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.

Person Specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • Experience of working in a Primary Care setting, healthcare environment and/or public sector is essential
  • An understanding of health and care services across the whole of community to include political and economic awareness
  • Experience of developing and delivering training for all levels of staff
  • Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting
  • Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries
  • Experience of staff management/staff supervision
  • Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures
  • Demonstrable application of governance and quality frameworks
  • Knowledge and experience of primary care, private, voluntary and independent sector
  • Demonstration and application of audits/coordinating and undertaking audits

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Has the ability to plan and implement new ways of working and facilitates collaborative working to improve service performance where there is resistance to change
  • Critical thinking to evaluate information and data
  • High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
  • Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty, and integrity in undertaking the role
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Calm and objective under pressure
  • Ability to establish credibility and develop and maintain effective working relationships
  • Computer and digitally literate
  • Experience of working across multiple sites

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • Registered Health Care Practitioner
  • 1st level degree or equivalent experience/Specialist knowledge of education in practice e.g. mentorship module; or equivalent
  • Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience
  • Evidence of Continual professional development

Behaviours and Values

Essential

  • Strives for safe, quality, effective and efficient service provision
  • Promotes open and honest dialogue, valuing individual differences, respect aspirations and commitments, and seeks to understand priorities, needs, abilities and limits
  • Aware of the impact of own behaviour on others
  • Leads by example and actively role models the NHS and L&SC TH Values in all work, fostering an inclusive culture with compassion and humanity
  • Interprets equality, diversity and rights in accordance with legislation, policies, procedures and good practice
  • Constructively challenges and accepts feedback from others
  • Ensures all initiates are designed and implemented with quality patient care in mind
  • Maintains confidentiality at all times
Person Specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • Experience of working in a Primary Care setting, healthcare environment and/or public sector is essential
  • An understanding of health and care services across the whole of community to include political and economic awareness
  • Experience of developing and delivering training for all levels of staff
  • Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting
  • Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries
  • Experience of staff management/staff supervision
  • Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures
  • Demonstrable application of governance and quality frameworks
  • Knowledge and experience of primary care, private, voluntary and independent sector
  • Demonstration and application of audits/coordinating and undertaking audits

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Has the ability to plan and implement new ways of working and facilitates collaborative working to improve service performance where there is resistance to change
  • Critical thinking to evaluate information and data
  • High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
  • Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty, and integrity in undertaking the role
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Calm and objective under pressure
  • Ability to establish credibility and develop and maintain effective working relationships
  • Computer and digitally literate
  • Experience of working across multiple sites

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • Registered Health Care Practitioner
  • 1st level degree or equivalent experience/Specialist knowledge of education in practice e.g. mentorship module; or equivalent
  • Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience
  • Evidence of Continual professional development

Behaviours and Values

Essential

  • Strives for safe, quality, effective and efficient service provision
  • Promotes open and honest dialogue, valuing individual differences, respect aspirations and commitments, and seeks to understand priorities, needs, abilities and limits
  • Aware of the impact of own behaviour on others
  • Leads by example and actively role models the NHS and L&SC TH Values in all work, fostering an inclusive culture with compassion and humanity
  • Interprets equality, diversity and rights in accordance with legislation, policies, procedures and good practice
  • Constructively challenges and accepts feedback from others
  • Ensures all initiates are designed and implemented with quality patient care in mind
  • Maintains confidentiality at all times

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Fernbank Surgery

Address

Lytham Primary Care Centre

Victoria St

Lytham

Lancashire

FY8 5DZ


Employer's website

https://www.fernbanksurgery.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Fernbank Surgery

Address

Lytham Primary Care Centre

Victoria St

Lytham

Lancashire

FY8 5DZ


Employer's website

https://www.fernbanksurgery.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Operations Manager, Fylde Coast Training Hub

Laura-Jane Lloyd

laurajane.lloyd@nhs.net

07745526991

Date posted

26 August 2021

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

A0341-21-1748

Job locations

Lytham Primary Care Centre

Victoria St

Lytham

Lancashire

FY8 5DZ


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