The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Practice Education Facilitator for Clinical Placement Expansion

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Job summary

Education plays a significant role in the current context and future ambitions of the Trust. The Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) for placement expansion will continue to focus on maintaining a sustainable "Hub and Spoke", and including other placement models and supporting our wards with their clinical expansion methods and models.

The Trust wants to ensure a high-quality clinical learning environment is provided through support, educational input and developmental activities for nursing students and practice-based assessors and supervisors. The role aims to enhance the quality of the practice learning experience by providing expansion to clinical placements on ward areas within the practice environment. The role will positively contribute to the future development of the learning environment, clinical placement expansion and the positive clinical placement experience of learners at PAHT.

The role will require excellent communication between numerous stakeholders; Nursing and Quality team, PAHT practice areas, NHSE and our partner Universities/Education providers. It will also require the successful applicant to lead on implementing change and supporting clinical areas through this change.

This role will support and work directly with nursing students on clinical placement within the Trust, positively contribute to the expansion of the future nursing workforce,support supervisors and assessors as an additional pastoral mentorand build on our education plans.

Main duties of the job

Key aims of the role are to:

To support thesupervisors and assessors as an additional pastoral advisor.

This willensure that the standards and values required for learning, development and assessment are embedded and maintained into everyday clinical practice.

Work across professional boundaries to ensure that all nursing students on placement within the Trust receive the best possible education experience that supports the highest standard of learning and development.

Educate teams on the ward to the clinical placement models and practices that will support increasing the number of clinical placements available on the wards and within our spoke areas.

Enhance the clinical learning environment by maintaining sustainable placement models across all placement areas wihtin the trust; to reflect the patient journey, increase the student's learning experience and ultimately meet the requirements of the placement expansion project.

Enhance the practice learning environment by expanding clinical placements across all wards to continue to meet the requirements of the placement expansion project.

Provide support to staff, actively engaged with the development of students across the trust.

Assist teams within the practice environments to meet the student's objectives, through the development of placement expansion.

Support teams with adhering to equality, diversity and inclusion best practice to support the experiences of our students and individuals working alongside them.

About us

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart- Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence- Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration- Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Details

Date posted

08 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,162 to £44,629 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

292-5976874-CORP

Job locations

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Job description

Job responsibilities

Below is a little insight into this exciting role - for more details please read the attached job and person specification

Provide professional support and guidance to practice assessors and practice supervisors and nursing students.

Enhance systems and processes aimed at increasing clinical placements and improving the quality of the clinical learning environment.

Working in line with and benchmarking against the NMC Education SSSA standards, working closely with all educators, education providers and HEE, assuring that assessment in practice is robust.

Support practice assessors, supervisors and staff in developing systems to support curriculum development, improve the clinical learning environment and ensure quality monitoring of practice-based education, based on the OFSTED and NMC Education Standards.

Participate in the NHSE Quality Strategy and support the trust in achieving compliance and implementing any associated action plans.

Establish and maintain working relationships with appropriate members of the multi-professional team, including nursing, medical staff, allied health professionals and support workers within the learning environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Below is a little insight into this exciting role - for more details please read the attached job and person specification

Provide professional support and guidance to practice assessors and practice supervisors and nursing students.

Enhance systems and processes aimed at increasing clinical placements and improving the quality of the clinical learning environment.

Working in line with and benchmarking against the NMC Education SSSA standards, working closely with all educators, education providers and HEE, assuring that assessment in practice is robust.

Support practice assessors, supervisors and staff in developing systems to support curriculum development, improve the clinical learning environment and ensure quality monitoring of practice-based education, based on the OFSTED and NMC Education Standards.

Participate in the NHSE Quality Strategy and support the trust in achieving compliance and implementing any associated action plans.

Establish and maintain working relationships with appropriate members of the multi-professional team, including nursing, medical staff, allied health professionals and support workers within the learning environment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level, or equivalent knowledge and experience
  • Professional qualification with current registration
  • Active practice assessor or supervisor in a clinical area

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of teaching, supervision and assessing healthcare students in practice settings
  • Experience of working in clinical environment
  • Experienced practice assessor in the clinical environment

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • oUnderstanding of the clinical expansion ideals and the associated expansion models currently used e.g. CLiP and hub and spoke
  • Able to act as a team leader to an identified group of staff, monitoring and documenting the development of their clinical skills
  • Understanding and/or experience of imbedding equality diversity and inclusion into your teaching to ensure that learners of all abilities and physical needs can access the same learning and clinical placement opportunities available.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level, or equivalent knowledge and experience
  • Professional qualification with current registration
  • Active practice assessor or supervisor in a clinical area

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of teaching, supervision and assessing healthcare students in practice settings
  • Experience of working in clinical environment
  • Experienced practice assessor in the clinical environment

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • oUnderstanding of the clinical expansion ideals and the associated expansion models currently used e.g. CLiP and hub and spoke
  • Able to act as a team leader to an identified group of staff, monitoring and documenting the development of their clinical skills
  • Understanding and/or experience of imbedding equality diversity and inclusion into your teaching to ensure that learners of all abilities and physical needs can access the same learning and clinical placement opportunities available.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Educational Lead: Non-Medical

Nneka Smith

nneka.smith@nhs.net

01279978816

Details

Date posted

08 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,162 to £44,629 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

292-5976874-CORP

Job locations

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


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