Job summary
Internal Only
The Royal Papworth Hospital Clinical Education team are seeking a dynamic, enthusiastic and skilled Band 7 CPD Nurse to join our team. This position works alongside an established but welcoming multiprofessional education team, supporting students and learners across the organisation, but with a specific focus towards our cardiothoracic surgical wards.
At Royal Papworth, you'll be at the forefront of revolutionising patient care, ensuring their comfort and safety every step of the way and in the development of staff and students within this specialist organisation. From proactively preparing training and development interventions to seamlessly coordinating across multiprofessional teams, offering the very best of education opportunities.
As part of the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, you'll be immersed in a culture of excellence and innovation, where every day brings new opportunities for growth and discovery. With a legacy of ground-breaking achievements, including pioneering heart transplants and delivering life-saving emergency treatments, underpinned through dedicated professional development.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will sit within the Clinical Education team with a core focus on Continuing Professional Development within the Surgical teams at Royal Papworth Hospital.
To support staff and learners in their clinical environment - applying a range of judgement and clinical skills across a spectrum of patient pathways.
To ensure the planning, delivering, and evaluation of professional development opportunities relative to peri and post operative/intervention care while effectively communicating with learners, patients, families, and the multidisciplinary team.
To provide guidance and support to staff and learners, fostering the professional development of clinical and technical skills in close cooperation with clinical area leads and line managers.
To lead, design and deliver quality clinical skills and development training programs relevant to an individual's area of practice/program of study/defined assessment program, including local induction, competence training and assessment and enablement of ongoing professional development.
To work in the clinical areas to support new starters or those requiring additional input as agreed using learning contracts, action plans and approved assessment tools.
Additionally, to be able to undertake a clinical role in the department, providing direct patient care, support coordinating the nursing team and respective skill mix and maintaining the highest standards of patient care, safety and operational efficiency.
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional clinical registration in Nursing, Allied Healthcare Professional, Pharmacy or Healthcare Science with associated qualification and clinical knowledge acquired through training to diploma or degree level.
- PLUS post graduate learning and professional experience to masters level (or equivalent) relevant to practice/post, with demonstrable competence OR specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience.
Experience
Essential
- To have specialist knowledge and experience in learner assessment, mentorship, education and professional development. To be able to support, supervise and manage others within the wider Education teams.
- To lead, design and deliver quality clinical skills and development training programs relevant to an individual's area of practice/program of study with key focus on new and existing staff to ensure they are fit for practice.
- To lead, develop and deliver CPD training programs in support of staff undertaking defined assessment programs.
- To support clinical areas in expediting the acquisition of skills by supporting local induction, training and assessment.
- To support new starters or those requiring additional support as agreed using learning contracts, action plans and approved assessment tools.
- To have experience in teaching and training staff and pre-registrant students in both a clinical and a classroom environment.
- To assure quality in clinical skills development, mentorship, and supervision in the learning environment through the provision of evidence based practice and support for mentors/ educators/ individuals. To provide best practice/evidence-based practice advice in a clinical/educational setting for mentors/educators and staff in relation to clinical practice and governance.
- To support the clinical environment in delivering multimodal learning opportunities that are relevant to the clinical teams and practical for the Trust.
- To be able to assess competence in the clinical learning or simulated environment, including fitness for practice. Develop and benchmark learning plans and pathways according to need and action plan where appropriate.
- To lead, develop and deliver clinical training and professional development programs in support of staff undertaking defined career pathways and assessment programs. This will involve quality assurance, collaboration with clinical areas, education and workforce teams, campus partners, professional bodies and with regional colleges/universities.
- To ensure learners understand their professional development pathway and support them into their area of work, that is evaluated and updated regularly. This includes supporting mentors/educators in decisions relating to practice placement, competence and fitness for practice.
- Responsible for the planning, development, organisation and evaluation of a productive teaching and learning environment, benchmarking against local and national standards and analysing complex options
- To allocate and support supervision of staff, learners, mentor educators and assessors in practice settings, ensuring safe, high-quality learning experiences as well as contributing to service improvements.
- To critically assess and promote quality clinical learning environments and determine interventions to sustain and enhance practice education.
- To identify training needs and skills gaps and co-ordinate learning opportunities, utilising a range of resources and training modalities, and provide specialist input to enable a responsive but forward-thinking education portfolio.
- To contribute to the wider education agenda by engaging with all levels of governance structures and working autonomously within training parameters.
- To collaborate with the multiprofessional team to support high-quality, inclusive and developmental training initiatives and lead across a range of training and development initiatives assuring a high quality, fit for purpose, inclusive training and development prospectus.
- To be able to plan and undertake complex patient care and staff/student training interventions for example: administering medications and IV infusions, venepuncture and catheter insertion, complex wound management, life support training.
- To use a range of complex training tools and simulators supporting a quality learning experience; such as live training defibrillators and high fidelity manikins. The post holder will be responsible for preparing and managing such equipment in readiness for learners and whilst in use.
- To work within the clinical environment so the post holder will have occasional exposure to bodily fluids and will have occasional exposure to difficult or emotional circumstances.
- The postholder will be expected to participate in moving and handling tasks relating to patient care utilising mechanical aids and in the preparation of the learning environment, such as positioning manikins, tables, chairs etc.
- To be able to effectively communicate complex, confidential, and/or sensitive information through a range of interpersonal skills to learners, colleagues, patients and families. This will include correspondence across a range of modalities to stakeholders within and partnered to the Trust, such as providing educational program planning and reviews, learner support and action planning, line management responsibilities and as part engagement in the delivery of direct patient care, ultimately enhancing the patient and learner experience.
- To have the ability to teach and communicate effectively at both the individual level as well as in large groups and meetings, able to ensure clear understanding and meaningful engagement.
- To be guided by Trust policies and procedures and knowing when to appropriately escalate and to act independently within own regulatory body Code of conduct.
- To understand the process of escalation within the trust ensuring this is done promptly to ensure patient and staff safety and recognising and raising any safeguarding concerns.
- To provide line management duties to Education Facilitators/junior staff (including appraisals, and professional support and coaching) and support supervision of learners within the clinical and learning environments.
- To ensure the highest standards of care and professionalism are maintained and where there are issues, relating to the quality of care, ensure these are actioned.
- To support and positively influence recruitment and retention initiatives through attending internal and external events, contributing experience in teaching/ mentoring/ coaching to other staff, trainees and applicants.
- To propose policy or service changes where appropriate, enhancing patient care and safety and delivery of education and training.
- To regularly review, evaluate, make recommendations and lead on response to areas of practice and policies that would benefit from improvement.
- To share learning from incidents and feedback.
- To design, undertake and respond to educational audits, staff/learners' surveys and associated reports. To support quality assurance necessary to education and development portfolio. To assist in undertaking training needs analyses, responding appropriately with the design and delivery of support programs and structures.
- To actively participate and engage in external and internal educational governance and clinical practice forums/groups to support continuous education and clinical practice improvement.
- To engage with wider NHS/ providers to develop policies to improve clinical practice and education.
- To act as a link practitioner (within an allocated area of expertise) and / or undertake audits as required and may occasionally participate in research and development.
- To maintain accurate electronic and/or manual clinical, patient and other records, as appropriate, ensuring that all documentation adheres to the Trust's standards.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional clinical registration in Nursing, Allied Healthcare Professional, Pharmacy or Healthcare Science with associated qualification and clinical knowledge acquired through training to diploma or degree level.
- PLUS post graduate learning and professional experience to masters level (or equivalent) relevant to practice/post, with demonstrable competence OR specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience.
Experience
Essential
- To have specialist knowledge and experience in learner assessment, mentorship, education and professional development. To be able to support, supervise and manage others within the wider Education teams.
- To lead, design and deliver quality clinical skills and development training programs relevant to an individual's area of practice/program of study with key focus on new and existing staff to ensure they are fit for practice.
- To lead, develop and deliver CPD training programs in support of staff undertaking defined assessment programs.
- To support clinical areas in expediting the acquisition of skills by supporting local induction, training and assessment.
- To support new starters or those requiring additional support as agreed using learning contracts, action plans and approved assessment tools.
- To have experience in teaching and training staff and pre-registrant students in both a clinical and a classroom environment.
- To assure quality in clinical skills development, mentorship, and supervision in the learning environment through the provision of evidence based practice and support for mentors/ educators/ individuals. To provide best practice/evidence-based practice advice in a clinical/educational setting for mentors/educators and staff in relation to clinical practice and governance.
- To support the clinical environment in delivering multimodal learning opportunities that are relevant to the clinical teams and practical for the Trust.
- To be able to assess competence in the clinical learning or simulated environment, including fitness for practice. Develop and benchmark learning plans and pathways according to need and action plan where appropriate.
- To lead, develop and deliver clinical training and professional development programs in support of staff undertaking defined career pathways and assessment programs. This will involve quality assurance, collaboration with clinical areas, education and workforce teams, campus partners, professional bodies and with regional colleges/universities.
- To ensure learners understand their professional development pathway and support them into their area of work, that is evaluated and updated regularly. This includes supporting mentors/educators in decisions relating to practice placement, competence and fitness for practice.
- Responsible for the planning, development, organisation and evaluation of a productive teaching and learning environment, benchmarking against local and national standards and analysing complex options
- To allocate and support supervision of staff, learners, mentor educators and assessors in practice settings, ensuring safe, high-quality learning experiences as well as contributing to service improvements.
- To critically assess and promote quality clinical learning environments and determine interventions to sustain and enhance practice education.
- To identify training needs and skills gaps and co-ordinate learning opportunities, utilising a range of resources and training modalities, and provide specialist input to enable a responsive but forward-thinking education portfolio.
- To contribute to the wider education agenda by engaging with all levels of governance structures and working autonomously within training parameters.
- To collaborate with the multiprofessional team to support high-quality, inclusive and developmental training initiatives and lead across a range of training and development initiatives assuring a high quality, fit for purpose, inclusive training and development prospectus.
- To be able to plan and undertake complex patient care and staff/student training interventions for example: administering medications and IV infusions, venepuncture and catheter insertion, complex wound management, life support training.
- To use a range of complex training tools and simulators supporting a quality learning experience; such as live training defibrillators and high fidelity manikins. The post holder will be responsible for preparing and managing such equipment in readiness for learners and whilst in use.
- To work within the clinical environment so the post holder will have occasional exposure to bodily fluids and will have occasional exposure to difficult or emotional circumstances.
- The postholder will be expected to participate in moving and handling tasks relating to patient care utilising mechanical aids and in the preparation of the learning environment, such as positioning manikins, tables, chairs etc.
- To be able to effectively communicate complex, confidential, and/or sensitive information through a range of interpersonal skills to learners, colleagues, patients and families. This will include correspondence across a range of modalities to stakeholders within and partnered to the Trust, such as providing educational program planning and reviews, learner support and action planning, line management responsibilities and as part engagement in the delivery of direct patient care, ultimately enhancing the patient and learner experience.
- To have the ability to teach and communicate effectively at both the individual level as well as in large groups and meetings, able to ensure clear understanding and meaningful engagement.
- To be guided by Trust policies and procedures and knowing when to appropriately escalate and to act independently within own regulatory body Code of conduct.
- To understand the process of escalation within the trust ensuring this is done promptly to ensure patient and staff safety and recognising and raising any safeguarding concerns.
- To provide line management duties to Education Facilitators/junior staff (including appraisals, and professional support and coaching) and support supervision of learners within the clinical and learning environments.
- To ensure the highest standards of care and professionalism are maintained and where there are issues, relating to the quality of care, ensure these are actioned.
- To support and positively influence recruitment and retention initiatives through attending internal and external events, contributing experience in teaching/ mentoring/ coaching to other staff, trainees and applicants.
- To propose policy or service changes where appropriate, enhancing patient care and safety and delivery of education and training.
- To regularly review, evaluate, make recommendations and lead on response to areas of practice and policies that would benefit from improvement.
- To share learning from incidents and feedback.
- To design, undertake and respond to educational audits, staff/learners' surveys and associated reports. To support quality assurance necessary to education and development portfolio. To assist in undertaking training needs analyses, responding appropriately with the design and delivery of support programs and structures.
- To actively participate and engage in external and internal educational governance and clinical practice forums/groups to support continuous education and clinical practice improvement.
- To engage with wider NHS/ providers to develop policies to improve clinical practice and education.
- To act as a link practitioner (within an allocated area of expertise) and / or undertake audits as required and may occasionally participate in research and development.
- To maintain accurate electronic and/or manual clinical, patient and other records, as appropriate, ensuring that all documentation adheres to the Trust's standards.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
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
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).
