Assistant Education Facilitator
The closing date is 08 September 2025
Job summary
INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
This is a Trust-wide role within the clinical education team, responsible for the teaching, training and supervision of new and existing Healthcare Support Workers in the hospital.
The key duties of the role include working alongside staff in clinical and non-clinical environments, supporting patient care and staff skills / knowledge acquisition, pastoral support, training and development, and supervision to ensure Healthcare Support Workers are appropriately supported and developed within their role.
The post-holder will also take an active part in promoting and recruiting to Healthcare Support Worker roles.
This is both a clinical and non-clinical role. The ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team including clinicians, managers, other Healthcare staff, patients and relatives in a professional manner and to work on own initiative to a high standard are key requirements of this role
Main duties of the job
To provide, receive and manage complex and/or sensitive information relating to patient care and staff training.
To undertake teaching, training, instruction and provide advice at individual and group level on a range of clinically appropriate topics. This may require tact or persuasive skills whilst managing any barriers to understanding.
To provide pastoral support to HCSW and facilitate education and development. Communicate effectively, tactfully, and sensitively with staff, patients, carers and relatives providing factual information, ensuring their dignity, personal wishes and rights are respected.
To teach/mentor and supervise/assess new staff and colleagues within level of own knowledge and expertise. Support the development and delivery of clinical and classroom-based HCSW training which includes the care certificate and manual handling, the Trust clinical induction and education programme for HCSWs.
To plan and organise staff training and development exercises relevant to role and the training requirements of HCSWs across the organisation. Review and organise training resources, including training rooms, equipment and expert speakers.
Must be able to demonstrate a range of highly developed physical skills and deliver them with accuracy, including the use of clinical equipment, devices and in the process of delivering clinical care.
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.
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Details
Date posted
13 August 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£27,485 to £30,162 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
175-2526-ED1278
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Heart and Lung Research Institute
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
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