Practice Trainer

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has come up for an experienced registered nurse or registered health professional to join our Clinical Skills and Simulation Team as a Practice Trainer, working across Northern Care Alliance.

Based in Salford, you will training and supporting staff to provide the best care for patients.

This post will provide the successful applicant the opportunity to develop their existing skills and acquire new set of skills as a Band 6 Practice Trainer.

Full Time position 37.5 hours- part time considered.

You should have a wide range of clinical skills and an interest in teaching, training and supporting staff to be the best for patients.

Key responsibilities and characteristics:

The ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.A team player and flexibility essential.You to deliver clinical skills and simulation training to multidisciplinary staff.Delivery of ward based training across the NCA.Clinical skills include Tracheotomy, ECG, Venepuncture , Patient Observations, Calculation e.t.c.Delivery of courses that improve patient care for example sepsis, deteriorating patient.Maintenance of meticulous records.Supporting staff with learning needs.Completing a learning needs analysis.Liaising with all key stakeholders.Improving the patient experience.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver clinical skills and simulation training across the NCA
• Teaching and training of clinical staff in a variety of clinical skills settings
• Developing courses to respond to patient and staff needs
• Evaluating courses and making changes as needed
• Participating in peer review
• Improve the patient experience
• Maintaining training records
• Supporting staff to deliver high quality patient care
• Completing a learning needs analysis
• Providing reports
• Liaising with all key stakeholders
• Reviewing and improving clinical skills and simulation courses
• Developing new clinical courses to meet service needs
• Delivering ward based training

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.