Clinical skills facilitator

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job purpose

To work and support collaboratively with the Practice Educator to develop, maintain and support learning, development and growth within the Neighbourhood Nursing Teams using evidence-based practice.

To work in close collaboration with all members of the Neighbourhood Nursing Teams, to provide comprehensive, evidence-based practice.

To assist Neighbourhood nursing Teams in working across all localities

Assess the quality of a range of practice learning environments, determine interventions to sustain and enhance practice education; ensuring all localities have an up to action plan in place.

Support and facilitate the development of clinical supervisors, assessors and preceptors, providing supervision and support structures in order to build education in practice capability, consistency and efficiency.

To support the Practice Educator to develop, co-coordinate, evaluate and implement education programmes, contribute to development, validate and review through an annual quality review.

To deputise when required in the Practice Educators absence and delegate work appropriately and attend meetings as assigned.

Identify opportunities and work collaboratively with Practice Educator and Locality Leads on the planning, structuring, design, delivery and review of inter-professional learning opportunities and education in practice for health care learners, supervisors, assessors and preceptors.

Collaboratively identify the learning learns needs of different professional groups within Neighbourhood Nursing Teams, ensuring that the facilitation of inter professional learning outcomes are met as per educational policies, Standard Operating Procedures and Clinical Competencies.

Provide best practice advice in the clinical setting for practice assessors, mentors, preceptors and staff in relation to education in practice.

Develop and maintain up to date, accurate records and live register of practice assessors and preceptors in the practice setting.

Monitor staff performance inline with MCH policies, SOPs and clinical competency and work collaboratively with the Education Team, Locality Leads and staff member to produce action plans, if necessary, to support development.

To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day.

To actively promote self-management which enables the patient to proactively manage their long-term condition and know how to confidently manage or respond to any expected exacerbation or deterioration in their condition.

To work closely with other members of the team, provider services, health and social care partners and GPs to identify high risk patients providing a holistic assessment and assurance that they are able to access the relevant services.

To support the staff member to complete holistic assessments of patients referred to Neighbourhood Nursing and liaise with the Neighbourhood Nursing Teams on patients treatment needs.

To assist in monitoring the quality of nursing services offered and contribute to the development of quality measures.

Identify the need for and participate in clinical audit, implement change in clinical practice and participate in monitoring and evaluation processes.

To undertake the teams appraisal and performance development planning process, identifying training needs of team members, ensuring appropriate training is provided and that training is utilised in practice.

Full JD can be found in the attachments

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oRegistered Nurse on Part 1 of the Nursing Midwifery Council register Or Registered Paramedic with Health Care Professions Council
• oRecognised degree in Nursing/Community pathway.
• oDistrict Nursing qualification / community practitioner pathway or willingness to commence within 1 year of starting.
• oEvidence of further study
• oMentorship or training qualification
• oIntroduction to teaching qualification/ practice teacher qualification or willingness to work towards.

Desirable

• oProfessional Nurse Advocate qualification
• oRelevant post-graduate qualification, e.g. in elderly care, chronic disease management, long term conditions, rehabilitation

Experience

Essential

• oPost graduate accumulative experience in the fields of elderly/ rehabilitation/ community/ intermediate care/ long term conditions/acute illness.
• oExperience of delivering education and teaching.
• oProven and evidence of experience in an autonomous practitioner role
• oExperience of working in the community in healthcare.
• oExperience and competence in high level clinical assessment of complex patients

Desirable

• oEvidence of specialist knowledge in minor illness management, community nursing and advanced practitioner
• oExperience of using technology to facilitate provision of patient care
• oExperience of motivational interviewing
• oChange management experience

Specialist knowledge and expertise

Essential

• oExperience of mentoring students and other healthcare professionals

MCH values

Essential

• Demonstrates behaviours in line with all three MCH values

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

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

Various

Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham

ME1 2EL

Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)