Job summary
Practice Education & Development Lead
37.5 Hours per week
Permanent
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Closing Date: 18th February 2024
Interview Date: TBC
A position has arisen for a dynamic individual to lead the Practice Education & Development Team at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. The Practice Education & Development Lead is a proactive nursing leader, teacher and role model, who leads on the development of excellence in practice education and policy for staff and learners at GEH.
The successful candidate will be accountable for ensuring non medical staff and learners receive high quality support to excel at work or whilst on clinical placement. The Practice Education & Development Lead is responsible for ensuring the NMC standards framework for nursing and midwifery education are met - ensuring theory and practice learning and assessment are facilitated effectively and objectively by appropriately qualified and experienced professionals with necessary expertise for their educational and assessor roles.
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly.
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Main duties of the job
The Practice Education and Development Lead will support the Head of Practice Education to lead the Trusts Practice Education and Development approach, providing oversight and promoting a positive and supportive learning, education, and workforce development culture.
This role will lead on building and embedding a corporate Nurse, Midwifery and AHP Learning, education and workforce development framework. Delivering an inclusive portfolio of non-medical learning, education and development that supports the Trusts future direction.
Working with key decision makers in the Trust and providing support to the Head of Practice Education in the development and implementation of the People Plan, NHS Long term workforce plan and other service development/ improvement plans in line with Trust vision and values. The Practice Education and Development Lead will have leadership responsibility for the Practice Education service, function and staffing and will oversee the day-to-day operations ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality service, including, but not exclusive to.
- Pre-registration education for nursing, midwifery and AHP learners
- Preceptorship
- Post-registration education and development, including revalidation and CPD processes.
- Non-medical clinical apprenticeship agenda
- Onboarding programmes for HCA, Nurse Associates and Band 5 nurses
- NMC OSCE programme for Internationally Educated Nurses
- Nurse Induction
- Care Certificate
- Leading Empowered Organisations (LEO) Courses
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits:On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, on-site discounted gym, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Quality and Performance
- Robustly reviewing key performance measures and reporting frameworks in line with strategic aims.
- Leading the achievement of key performance targets and contractual obligations, meeting legislation, policies and procedures for all practice education and development services.
- Contributing to the monitoring and reviewing of business performance within Practice Education, reporting on performance internally and externally to the Trust, instigating remedial action where necessary.
- Monitor, evaluate and develop practice education and development services.
- Practice education, development, and training within the framework of all educational contracts, supporting trust employees across the organisation to provide comprehensive services and to plan, deliver and evaluate teaching activities.
- Ensure data collection and reporting processes for quality purposes and evidence and systems for robust reporting for education governance and quality assurance and Datix investigation are in place for internal and external bodies and stakeholders.
Patient Safety/Governance
- Implementation and monitoring of appropriate governance and risk systems, ensuring that services adhere to the Trust Risk Management policy and procedures, reporting and proactively finding solutions to address risk, monitoring progress on mitigation plans.
- Supporting a learning organisational culture to review risk, learning from incidents and near misses, by leading a solution focused approach to review, ensuring that lessons are learned and shared.
- To support the implementation of the Trusts Clinical Governance, Health and Safety and Risk Management policies within Practice Education and Development and actively participate in governance activities to ensure that the highest standards of training and education are in place and working to ensure the Trust operates in an effective, honest, and open way.
- Advise on, develop, and implement Practice Education and Development policies and procedures.
- To actively participate in the Trusts Governance and Quality review meetings to establish education and development needs through Learning from Incidents.
Transformation
- Working with the Trust senior education team and others to ensure plans are in place for the development and review of the educational service strategy for Practice Education and Development, paying special attention to the creation of new opportunities and service improvements that will enhance staff and learner experience, within and outside the organisation.
- Contribute to the development of service delivery and transformation plans across the Practice Education and Development service, supporting implementation plans, including those involving cross pathway working internally and externally in support of enhanced patient care, staff and learner experience, and quality of services using established Quality Improvement methodology.
- Lead change programmes and project management within the Practice Education and Development service applying the principles of service redesign and change management.
- To support the creation and implementation of new roles within the Trust aligned to the NHS People Plan and NHS Long term workforce plan and strategy and the promotion of a blended workforce.
Service Improvement
- Encouraging a climate that allows staff and learners to question and redefine how their work is undertaken ensuring the on-going development of patient centred care, staff and learner experience, and cost-effective use of resources.
- Redefining future orientated staff and learner pathways to improve standards of education, address governance issues, improve efficiency and income.
- Leading on the project management of service developments to ensure key targets are achieved, including cross cutting themes and pathways, contributing to the delivery of transformational work streams.
Principles & Values
- Acting in accordance with Code of Conduct for NHS Managers, Nursing & Midwifery Council, and other relevant professional bodies.
- Leading by example in the promotion of values, standards, and behaviour within the delivery of improved services, meeting requirements of Trust policy on equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Uphold ethics and values; demonstrate integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, build diverse teams.
- Maintain active NMC registration and all revalidation requirements.
Engagement & Empowerment
- Actively promoting a culture of staff engagement, using this as a driver for service improvement within the Practice Education and Development service, ensuring actions are followed through in a structured way.
- Implement effective communication strategies and techniques to promote involvement, effective decision making and a common sense of purpose, including leading staff and stakeholder engagement at the start of planned organisational change.
Communication
- Promote and present highly complex and often highly contentious information in a way to suit audiences at all levels across the Trust where significant barriers and resistance to change may be present.
- Use information in a timely way to monitor trends in activity, finance, human resources, incidents, and complaints.
- Provide reports and present analysis in concise and understandable form to engage action.
Accountability & Responsibility
- Being a role model and leader to all staff across the organisation, demonstrating values led attitude, a coaching style of leadership and a high level of skill in giving and receiving constructive feedback.
- Being a visible leader, encouraging staff to contribute to transformation of Practice Education and Development services, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery.
- Has defined budgetary responsibility devolved from the Head of Practice Education within the Practice Education and Development service, managing resources, and submitting reports and NHSE WTE returns as required. Working closely with management accounts to ensure systems are in place to monitor and audit the appropriate use of funds. Specifically, the budgets within Practice Education and Development, HEI and NHSE WTE associated finances.
- Providing clinical and educational expertise to the Trust learning panels to ensure appropriate spend and account for the CPD finances within the Trust.
Line Management
- Provide effective management to individuals and teams within sphere of responsibility, leading accountable members of staff to implement on-going change and development.
- Apply Trust People and Workforce policies and practices for staff e.g. recruitment, employee relations, appraisals, and individual performance reviews etc.
- Provide specialist knowledge of the Practice Education and Development service and senior management support to all staff within the Practice Education and Development teams, specifically for the Practice Educator and Practice Facilitator post holders.
- Responsible for day-to-day management and promotion of all aspects of the Practice Education and Development service functions.
Leading & Coaching
- Using a coaching style of leadership and development of potential at every level.
- Provides others with a clear direction; motivates and empowers others; recruits staff of a high calibre; provides staff with development opportunities and coaching; sets appropriate standards of behaviour.
- Ensures that appropriate models of practice supervision and assessment are provided across the organisation for learners, preceptors and registrants supported by the Practice Education and Development service.
- Promotes the Leading Empowered Organisation (LEO) course principles.
- Acts as a LEO course facilitator and organiser.
Knowledge & Expertise
- Ensuring that research, audit, data, and information are used to shape and influence strategic direction for the Practice Education and Development service, and directly influences decision making prior to developing business cases, submitting bids and plans.
- Ensuring that on-going quality, innovation, and service improvement plans are underpinned by a strong evidence base for improving patient, staff, and learner outcomes and/or patient, staff and learner experience, and in line with service strategies and business plans.
- Gathers comprehensive information to support decision making; encourages an organisational learning approach (i.e. learns from successes and failures and seeks learner, staff, and service user feedback.
- Provide specialist knowledge and advice and guidance on Practice Education and Development related matters for all learners, staff and managers in the Trust.
Relationships & Networking
- Representing the Trust within the NHS, partner organisations, HEIs and training providers working closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interests of the Practice Education and Development service and users.
- Build wide and effective networks of internal and external contacts to influence the delivery of a high-quality service.
- Working in partnership with People and Workforce, Trade Unions, and professional bodies to ensure the smooth running of services, by acknowledging the role and contribution of staff side representatives on day-to-day issues which impact on the workforce.
- Actively contribute to the work of the Trust Learning Operations Group, presenting relevant reports and documents on behalf of the Practice Education and Development service.
Personal and Professional Development
- Develop further managerial and leadership skills.
- Maintain membership of appropriate professional organisation (NMC)
- Be accountable for your own actions in accordance with the professional (NMC) code.
- Maintain professional registration and revalidation portfolio as required by the NMC.
- Ensure continuing professional and personal development, keeping abreast of professional issues and changing technologies.
Other
- To deputise for the Head of Practice Education as required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Quality and Performance
- Robustly reviewing key performance measures and reporting frameworks in line with strategic aims.
- Leading the achievement of key performance targets and contractual obligations, meeting legislation, policies and procedures for all practice education and development services.
- Contributing to the monitoring and reviewing of business performance within Practice Education, reporting on performance internally and externally to the Trust, instigating remedial action where necessary.
- Monitor, evaluate and develop practice education and development services.
- Practice education, development, and training within the framework of all educational contracts, supporting trust employees across the organisation to provide comprehensive services and to plan, deliver and evaluate teaching activities.
- Ensure data collection and reporting processes for quality purposes and evidence and systems for robust reporting for education governance and quality assurance and Datix investigation are in place for internal and external bodies and stakeholders.
Patient Safety/Governance
- Implementation and monitoring of appropriate governance and risk systems, ensuring that services adhere to the Trust Risk Management policy and procedures, reporting and proactively finding solutions to address risk, monitoring progress on mitigation plans.
- Supporting a learning organisational culture to review risk, learning from incidents and near misses, by leading a solution focused approach to review, ensuring that lessons are learned and shared.
- To support the implementation of the Trusts Clinical Governance, Health and Safety and Risk Management policies within Practice Education and Development and actively participate in governance activities to ensure that the highest standards of training and education are in place and working to ensure the Trust operates in an effective, honest, and open way.
- Advise on, develop, and implement Practice Education and Development policies and procedures.
- To actively participate in the Trusts Governance and Quality review meetings to establish education and development needs through Learning from Incidents.
Transformation
- Working with the Trust senior education team and others to ensure plans are in place for the development and review of the educational service strategy for Practice Education and Development, paying special attention to the creation of new opportunities and service improvements that will enhance staff and learner experience, within and outside the organisation.
- Contribute to the development of service delivery and transformation plans across the Practice Education and Development service, supporting implementation plans, including those involving cross pathway working internally and externally in support of enhanced patient care, staff and learner experience, and quality of services using established Quality Improvement methodology.
- Lead change programmes and project management within the Practice Education and Development service applying the principles of service redesign and change management.
- To support the creation and implementation of new roles within the Trust aligned to the NHS People Plan and NHS Long term workforce plan and strategy and the promotion of a blended workforce.
Service Improvement
- Encouraging a climate that allows staff and learners to question and redefine how their work is undertaken ensuring the on-going development of patient centred care, staff and learner experience, and cost-effective use of resources.
- Redefining future orientated staff and learner pathways to improve standards of education, address governance issues, improve efficiency and income.
- Leading on the project management of service developments to ensure key targets are achieved, including cross cutting themes and pathways, contributing to the delivery of transformational work streams.
Principles & Values
- Acting in accordance with Code of Conduct for NHS Managers, Nursing & Midwifery Council, and other relevant professional bodies.
- Leading by example in the promotion of values, standards, and behaviour within the delivery of improved services, meeting requirements of Trust policy on equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Uphold ethics and values; demonstrate integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, build diverse teams.
- Maintain active NMC registration and all revalidation requirements.
Engagement & Empowerment
- Actively promoting a culture of staff engagement, using this as a driver for service improvement within the Practice Education and Development service, ensuring actions are followed through in a structured way.
- Implement effective communication strategies and techniques to promote involvement, effective decision making and a common sense of purpose, including leading staff and stakeholder engagement at the start of planned organisational change.
Communication
- Promote and present highly complex and often highly contentious information in a way to suit audiences at all levels across the Trust where significant barriers and resistance to change may be present.
- Use information in a timely way to monitor trends in activity, finance, human resources, incidents, and complaints.
- Provide reports and present analysis in concise and understandable form to engage action.
Accountability & Responsibility
- Being a role model and leader to all staff across the organisation, demonstrating values led attitude, a coaching style of leadership and a high level of skill in giving and receiving constructive feedback.
- Being a visible leader, encouraging staff to contribute to transformation of Practice Education and Development services, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery.
- Has defined budgetary responsibility devolved from the Head of Practice Education within the Practice Education and Development service, managing resources, and submitting reports and NHSE WTE returns as required. Working closely with management accounts to ensure systems are in place to monitor and audit the appropriate use of funds. Specifically, the budgets within Practice Education and Development, HEI and NHSE WTE associated finances.
- Providing clinical and educational expertise to the Trust learning panels to ensure appropriate spend and account for the CPD finances within the Trust.
Line Management
- Provide effective management to individuals and teams within sphere of responsibility, leading accountable members of staff to implement on-going change and development.
- Apply Trust People and Workforce policies and practices for staff e.g. recruitment, employee relations, appraisals, and individual performance reviews etc.
- Provide specialist knowledge of the Practice Education and Development service and senior management support to all staff within the Practice Education and Development teams, specifically for the Practice Educator and Practice Facilitator post holders.
- Responsible for day-to-day management and promotion of all aspects of the Practice Education and Development service functions.
Leading & Coaching
- Using a coaching style of leadership and development of potential at every level.
- Provides others with a clear direction; motivates and empowers others; recruits staff of a high calibre; provides staff with development opportunities and coaching; sets appropriate standards of behaviour.
- Ensures that appropriate models of practice supervision and assessment are provided across the organisation for learners, preceptors and registrants supported by the Practice Education and Development service.
- Promotes the Leading Empowered Organisation (LEO) course principles.
- Acts as a LEO course facilitator and organiser.
Knowledge & Expertise
- Ensuring that research, audit, data, and information are used to shape and influence strategic direction for the Practice Education and Development service, and directly influences decision making prior to developing business cases, submitting bids and plans.
- Ensuring that on-going quality, innovation, and service improvement plans are underpinned by a strong evidence base for improving patient, staff, and learner outcomes and/or patient, staff and learner experience, and in line with service strategies and business plans.
- Gathers comprehensive information to support decision making; encourages an organisational learning approach (i.e. learns from successes and failures and seeks learner, staff, and service user feedback.
- Provide specialist knowledge and advice and guidance on Practice Education and Development related matters for all learners, staff and managers in the Trust.
Relationships & Networking
- Representing the Trust within the NHS, partner organisations, HEIs and training providers working closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interests of the Practice Education and Development service and users.
- Build wide and effective networks of internal and external contacts to influence the delivery of a high-quality service.
- Working in partnership with People and Workforce, Trade Unions, and professional bodies to ensure the smooth running of services, by acknowledging the role and contribution of staff side representatives on day-to-day issues which impact on the workforce.
- Actively contribute to the work of the Trust Learning Operations Group, presenting relevant reports and documents on behalf of the Practice Education and Development service.
Personal and Professional Development
- Develop further managerial and leadership skills.
- Maintain membership of appropriate professional organisation (NMC)
- Be accountable for your own actions in accordance with the professional (NMC) code.
- Maintain professional registration and revalidation portfolio as required by the NMC.
- Ensure continuing professional and personal development, keeping abreast of professional issues and changing technologies.
Other
- To deputise for the Head of Practice Education as required.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge within Practice Education & Development, underpinned by demonstrable experience within that specialism
- Experience of designing and facilitating a range of topics to adult learners- including demonstrable ability to differentiate for varying ability levels
- Experience of policy and service development in collaboration with colleagues and external bodies- e.g. HEIs and NHSE
- High level of literacy, reporting, presentation skills and delivering training
- Experience of leading a clinical or education team
- Knowledge of evaluation of learning and development interventions
- Experience of clinical teaching and assessing within the NHS setting
- Experience of managing budgets
- Knowledge of Nursing & Midwifery Council statutory regulations
- Knowledge of NHS EDI and current NHS strategy
Desirable
- Understanding of NHSE WTE finance
- Experience of implementing service redesign incorporating a Quality Improvement methodology
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- First degree or equivalent professional, academic qualification
- Educated to level 7 or MSc equivalent
- Holds current / active Professional Registration with NMC
- Sustained record of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Post registration qualification
- Hold relevant qualification in Education and Training (e.g. PGCE)
- Leadership Qualification
- Project Management Qualification
- LEO Course Facilitator
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to influence and operate effectively in a challenging environment
- Flexible approach to work, ability to accept and champion change
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise conflicting and changing priorities
- Networking skills and relationship building that enable change to take place
- Ability to analyse and communicate complex information regarding workforce development strategies
- Ability to assess complex data in order to recommend appropriate E C - Pre-employment checks, O - Other courses of action around workforce development
- Strong verbal and numerical reasoning skills
- Highly developed clinical skills and competencies
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-motivated
- Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills with ability to influence at senior levels
- Ability to work autonomously
- Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust Values
Other
Essential
- Able to travel to external venues and events
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective open communication
- Excellence and saftey in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge within Practice Education & Development, underpinned by demonstrable experience within that specialism
- Experience of designing and facilitating a range of topics to adult learners- including demonstrable ability to differentiate for varying ability levels
- Experience of policy and service development in collaboration with colleagues and external bodies- e.g. HEIs and NHSE
- High level of literacy, reporting, presentation skills and delivering training
- Experience of leading a clinical or education team
- Knowledge of evaluation of learning and development interventions
- Experience of clinical teaching and assessing within the NHS setting
- Experience of managing budgets
- Knowledge of Nursing & Midwifery Council statutory regulations
- Knowledge of NHS EDI and current NHS strategy
Desirable
- Understanding of NHSE WTE finance
- Experience of implementing service redesign incorporating a Quality Improvement methodology
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- First degree or equivalent professional, academic qualification
- Educated to level 7 or MSc equivalent
- Holds current / active Professional Registration with NMC
- Sustained record of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Post registration qualification
- Hold relevant qualification in Education and Training (e.g. PGCE)
- Leadership Qualification
- Project Management Qualification
- LEO Course Facilitator
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to influence and operate effectively in a challenging environment
- Flexible approach to work, ability to accept and champion change
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise conflicting and changing priorities
- Networking skills and relationship building that enable change to take place
- Ability to analyse and communicate complex information regarding workforce development strategies
- Ability to assess complex data in order to recommend appropriate E C - Pre-employment checks, O - Other courses of action around workforce development
- Strong verbal and numerical reasoning skills
- Highly developed clinical skills and competencies
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-motivated
- Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills with ability to influence at senior levels
- Ability to work autonomously
- Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust Values
Other
Essential
- Able to travel to external venues and events
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective open communication
- Excellence and saftey in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
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.
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).
Additional information
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).
