Band 7 AHP Practice Education Facilitator

Job summary

The role of the Practice Education AHP is to provide a high level of leadership, advocacy and support for student AHP's, practice assessors / supervisors and other colleagues. The aim is to help ensure AWP offers safe, effective and high quality learning experiences for students and other learners, and that colleagues in the placement settings are adequately prepared and supported. The learners are predominantly occupational therapists but also physiotherapy, dietetics and speech and language therapy.

In this post, you will:

• Assess the quality of current and potential learning environments, supporting colleagues to offer a good standard of vocational training aligned with relevant learning outcomes and clinical standards.
• Model, articulate and promote good practice around the HCPC standards for student education and the professional bodies, RCOT, CSP, BDA, RCS&LT contributing to a range of audit and reporting processes (e.g. Health Education England data returns)
• Maintain a professional liaison between AWP and its partnering Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), representing the Trust in a range of meetings, forums and negotiating spaces.
• Actively engage with AWP clinicians, learners and educational colleagues to alleviate concerns, remove barriers and to ensure the smooth running of practice placements.

In this role, you will be a highly visible and accessible resource to teams, and you will be an advocate for learning and education in everything you do.

Main duties of the job

• Advise clinical teams, Practice Assessors/Supervisors on teaching best practice in a clinical setting to deliver and maintain high clinical standards for service users and families and supporters.
• Influence and inform the development of effective and high quality learning opportunities for learners, acting as a visible resource to clinical teams
• Implement agreed actions to maximise the required placement capacity in all clinical teams within the Trust where AHP's are present
• Develop strong links with Practice Educators to support them within the placement areas
• Support the development of Practice Educators in the clinical teams including the delivery of updates, workshops, conferences and development meetings
• Provide support mechanisms for practice educators in liaison with the HEIs in addressing individual student issues, including suboptimal performance
• Represent the Trust in operational meetings with HEIs to ensure that issues of concern about practice and performance are fully addressed. This will include addressing situations where students have raised concerns about placements.
• Work to develop a register of AHP practice educators and ensure systems are in place in the organisation to maintain this
• Facilitate the annual audits of practice environments with the HEIs, ensuring that improvements identified through the process are embedded and maintained, and student feedback is fully utilised to drive improvements in student experience

About us

This is an exciting new role within AWP a big mental health Trust in the SW of England . The role will work to develop new placements support existing placements and work with practice educators and HEI to make AWP a placement of choice. You will support across the AHP professions but with a emphasise on occupational therapy which is the largest AHP staff group. You will be supported by the head of Allied health professions.