PEF / Locality Based Educator (Maternity / Obs & Gynae)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Core elements:

Student support

• To offer immediate hands-on practical support & guidance to learners & mentors.
• To work alongside learners to ensure that they are given every opportunity to develop their competence.
• Visit students within their placement supporting them with their education and assessments as well as ensuring no learning opportunity is missed.
• To promote effective communication between link lecturers, module leaders & the placement areas
• Supporting interprofessional learning activity across the trust and local service providers
• Support the development & delivery of targeted study days to enhance the training of pre-registration students and other learners within the organization
• Develop bespoke teaching sessions that meet student learning needs & enhance placement learning experience

Placement Quality

• Support placement education leads, Practice Educators, PEF & DUE teams to develop placement circuits that meet student learning needs, mirror the patient journey or explore locality-based healthcare communities.
• Promote the use of a hub and spoke model of placements within the division to increase the breadth of placement experience, improve multi-professional learning, encourage the development of new spokes and simply by managing our spokes better we will also increase capacity.
• Support the production of a central placement database that will improve communication to and from placement managers and educators.
• Support interprofessional learning activity across the trust and local service providers
• Facilitate the development of clinical supervisors across relevant service areas; providing supervision and support structures, building education in clinical practice capability, consistency and efficiency.
• To support mentors & educators in situations where learners are not able to meet their competencies.

• Share best practice relating to Quality Assurance and Interprofessional Learning across placement providers.

Allocations

• Support the DUE, PEF & Placement Hub teams to map annual allocation timetables for medical students and for each HEI to enable long term planning.
• Work with partner HEIs to reduce placement overlap and duplication.
• Maximize placement use across the Trust and reduce last minute placement cancellations or emergency placement requests.

Capacity

• Working with placement managers to expand placement capacity & increase the number of educators available
• Explore how new placement models such as CLiP, E-roster or Hub & Spoke models of student placements could be utilised to expand placement capacity
• Support the development of E-roster to track and manage learner placements
• Support the introduction of capacity as a daily number of learners rather than a weekly number of students.
• Support the development of simulated or remote learning opportunities

Communication

• Ensure communication channels are used appropriately to facilitate the flow of information between internal and external partners.
• Share best practice relating to Quality Assurance and Interprofessional Learning across placement providers.
• Produce regular progress reports to inform Education Quality monitoring.
• Ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times in conjunction with organisational IG policies.
• Have an understanding of emotional intelligence and human factors and its impact within the health care setting: patients, clinicians, service providers and the wider team.

Personal development

• Manage and prioritise own workload.
• Maintain own knowledge and skills by making opportunities to participate in professional development activities.
• Take responsibility for personal performance and recognise own development needs.
• Participate in the agreed personal development, appraisal scheme.

Health & Safety

• To ensure a safe and pleasant environment for staff & learners to work.
• To ensure a safe and pleasant environment for learning and development to take place.
• To actively contribute to the management of risk and governance.
• To ensure safe moving and handling of teaching equipment from venue to venue.

Equality & diversity

• Ensure that equality and diversity issues are recognised, addressed in accordance with legislation and with local Trust and HEI policies and procedures.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Broad range of clinical experience
• Experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting

Desirable

• Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registered Midwife
• Academic qualification, to a minimum of degree level
• Professionally recognized mentor & educator qualification (ENB 998, NU 3040, MSLAiP, Apple or ACE accreditation etc.)

Skills

Essential

• Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff
• Able to plan, implement and evaluate education programmes
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• Knowledge of different methods/ styles for teaching and learning
• Microsoft office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access

Attributes

Essential

• Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative
• Ability to work flexibly and manage competing priorities
• Consistently high attention to detail and quality of work
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds
• Understanding of quality improvement methodology and outcome measurement
• Ability to supervise staff on a day to day basis
• Adaptable to meet differing learning styles/ preferences

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Learning Centre - Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital

Haslingden Road

Blackburn

BB2 3HH

Employer's website

http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)