General Practice Education Facilitator

Job description

Job responsibilities

CORE ELEMENTS

Working as part of a team, alongside the existing GPEF who will provide an overarching support structure, you will;

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

Working as part of a team, alongside the existing GPEF who will provide an overarching support structure, you will:

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

Working as part of a team, alongside the existing GPEF who will provide an overarching support structure, you will:

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 multi-professional 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

Working as part of a team, alongside the existing GPEF who will provide an overarching support structure, you will:

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

Working as part of a team, alongside the existing GPEF who will provide an overarching support structure, you will:

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

Working as part of a team, alongside the existing GPEF who will provide an overarching support structure, you will:

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

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse or qualified Nursing Associate
• OR
• HCPC Registered Allied Health Professional

Desirable

• Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience
• 1st level degree or equivalent experience/Specialist knowledge of education in practice e.g. mentorship module; or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Experience of developing and delivering training for all levels of staff
• Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting

Desirable

• Experience of working in a Primary Care setting

Experience

Essential

• Experience of developing and delivering training for all levels of staff
• Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting

Desirable

• Experience of working in a Primary Care setting

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).

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)