Education Facilitator
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 27 April 2025
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Clinical Education team at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Our core values - Compassion, Excellence, and Collaboration are at the forefront of delivering responsive, effective, and safe patient care. The Trust is committed to ensuring that all staff have access to clinical education and training required to provide outstanding care.
We are seeking an Education Facilitator to join our dynamic team and help the Trust maintain its position as one of the most innovative and leading cardio-thoracic specialist NHS organisations. The successful post holder will share our vision and values, be enthusiastic and professional in their approach and have passion for multi-professional education.
The role is central to the planning, delivery and evaluation of training programs across the non-medical professions and grades, tailored towards staff, students and other learners. The post holder will support learner supervision, mentor educators/assessors, and contribute to service improvements.
Candidates will need to hold membership with a UK-regulated health care profession and have previous relevant clinical experience at Band 6.
Informal visits are welcomed and encouraged.
*Please note this post is advertised as Band 6 but is subject to a consistency checking process.
Main duties of the job
Deliver education to learners in practice, and support practice assessors/educators through a train the trainer approach, including action planning and fair assessment.
Deliver core clinical training, induction, and competency workshops for staff, aligning with organisational needs.
Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, while aligning with team and Trust goals and values.
Lead on planning and organisation of activities and programmes such as student induction, student forums, clinical skills session, requiring problem solving and analytical thinking.
Provide pastoral support and signposting to students and learners
Support the delivery of education at outward-facing events, liaising with external partners, such as Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), NHSE, the ICB and schools and colleges, ensuring collaborative relationships are fostered and RPH is represented.
Deliver clinical skills training as relevant to own scope of practice.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Date posted
24 March 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
175-2425-1-ED1179
Job locations
Heart and Lung Research Institute
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Heart and Lung Research Institute
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)








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