Assistant PPF/Practice Assessor
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to join a forward thinking People and OD team who are on a journey to deliver excellence in people practice? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
We are delighted to be recruiting for a Peripatetic Practice Assessor to join our Practice Education Team. You will report directly to the Practice Placement Facilitators and Lead Nurse for Practice Education.
This exciting new role will assist in the delivery of high-quality practice placements for our student nurses throughout the organisation. The post holder will work alongside clinical assessors and supervisors to support, assess, and educate student nurses and staff. Applications are invited from motivated and experienced nurses, who have excellent communication, inter-personal skills and have the ability to work autonomously across a variety of areas within hospital and community settings. They will need to demonstrate a problem-solving approach and have a keen interest in student education.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high-quality practice assessments for learners in the clinical setting contributing to a high-quality learning environment and will be required to work Trust wide within services and organisations where inter-professional learning opportunities are provided. The post holder will also be required to work with placement team to promote and implement the use of coaching models and clinical supervision for learners in practice. The post holder will be required to support the breadth of the student experience, which may require cross boundary working. The peripatetic assessor will work proactively to minimise student issues and promote student nurse education.
The post holder will be expected to form key relationships with:
- Practice Placement Facilitators
- Education Lead's
- Practice Education Team
- Practice assessors and supervisors
- Partnership university education and placements team
- Ward/area nursing teams
- Ward/area matrons
- Ward/area multidisciplinary teams
- Patients, relatives, and carers
- Student nurses on program
Informal enquiries welcomed by our Practice Placement Facilitator Ashley Pierce - ashley.pierce@nhs.net
About us
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead. Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients. As a group we employ around 4,200 staff and currently provide 600 hospital beds across Gateshead. Our primary focus is on providing excellent general health services to our local community complemented by key specialist areas including Gynaecology, maternity, palliative care and old age psychiatry. Alongside a full range of local hospital services, we provide breast screening services for Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland and parts of Durham - and we are the North Eastern hub for the National Bowel Cancer and AAA Screening Programmes, covering a population of around seven million people.
Date posted
19 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
297-5071483-B
Job locations
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Avenue
Gateshead
NE9 6SX
Employer details
Employer name
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Avenue
Gateshead
NE9 6SX
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