Clinical Skills Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Service Management

Work with the Consultants and Education Fellows to facilitate the educational needs of the year 2,3, 4 and 5 blocks of medical undergraduate students during their placement.

• Organise and deliver tutorials in response to identified needs.

Support years 2-5 medical undergraduates in their experience of clinical situations and facilitate their learning of relevant clinical skills, knowledge and attitude.

Provide an ongoing review of the effectiveness of the clinical skills component of the courses.

Work as an autonomous practitioner to ensure clinical skills are maintained and developed, and provide further scope for medical student training on the shop floor.

Clinical Practice ability will include; competence to deliver and teach excellent clinical care within a multiple of specialties including interpretation of diagnostic information.

Management of emergencies and taking appropriate action plan, develop, implement, teach and evaluate a programme of clinical skills training ensuring appropriate access for all multidisciplinary staff with the Clinical Skills

Ensure that all clinical skills training is conducted according to current national

and international recommendations.

Be able to work independently and autonomously, managing own workload, prioritising activities and ensuring the needs of the service are met.

Maintain accurate records of clinical assessments and interventions

Manage own time effectively at all times including a balance between Clinical Skills and clinical work in the Trust.

Be responsible for the provision and maintenance of sufficient equipment for clinical training ensuring compatibility of the equipment to that available in the various clinical areas of the Trust

Carry out audit, produce reports as requested and carry out other administrative activities relevant to the post as well as maintain the security of the Skills Laboratory at all times.

Maintain accurate records of attendance at Courses and Clinical Skills Training including candidate bookings, trainer bookings, room bookings, as well as candidate and trainer attendance.

Be an Educational Supervisor (ES) for students in any year group and sign off skills in e-portfolio.

• Provide specialist advice to effectively communicate with a wide range of people in a manner consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background to explore complex issues and to make complex decision

Be able to provide surgical and simulation teaching to different specialities and year block.

Support post graduate teaching if required (eg tracheostomy, blood cultures).

Maintain a presence in the clinical areas by working alongside colleagues and medical students to role model and facilitate excellent clinical practice.

Maintain the confidentiality of exam scripts during OSCEs.

Support teaching as required for University of Nicosia medical students.

Person Specification

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse Level 1 or Level 15 depending on whether working with adults or children
• A clinical expert either through formal qualification (diploma/degree) and/or extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area
• Post-registration teaching/mentorship qualification
• Significant and proven clinical and management skills within a relevant clinical field
• Demonstrates evidence of developing innovative practice and of being proactive in managing change
• Ability to utilise evidence-based practice.
• Evidence of effective multi-disciplinary working.
• Basic IT and computer skills
• Previous involvement in quality initiatives.
• Demonstrates commitment to high standards of patient care and service delivery
• A genuine desire to be a learning facilitator with demonstrable enthusiasm for practice development
• Experience in teaching, mentoring and assessment
• Demonstrates an understanding of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Awareness of current developments in own clinical specialty.

Desirable

• A Degree in Nursing or actively working towards this
• A willingness to work towards the Practice Educator qualification or equivalent
• Experience of audit.
• Presentation skills
• Research awareness and demonstrates how this relates to practice

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

London

SE18 4QH

Employer's website

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