Job summary
Are you looking for the opportunity to work within clinical education and be part of a forward thinking and innovative team? Do you want to positively influence our staff and develop their clinical skills? Are you looking for challenging and rewarding job prospects?
The Clinical Skills team is looking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled staff member to assist in driving high quality skills delivery throughout the Trust.
Our team specialises in the delivery of clinical skills teaching to a wide range of health care professionals including; Health Care Assistants, qualified Nurses, AHP's and undergraduate and post graduate medical staff. The skills include; venepuncture, cannulation, ECG and other clinically relevant skills.
Based within the wider clinical education team including Simulation and resuscitation we work closely with our colleagues to deliver a wide range of high quality and innovative sessions to a wide range of Trust staff.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role include the planning, delivery and evaluation of clinical skills teaching sessions to Nursing & AHP staff on the preceptorship programme & Clinical Skills framework sessions.
You will also assist with new Doctors assessments, the Acute Illness Management course, the new Advanced Skills programme and will be expected to liaise with a wide range of trust staff to ensure effective delivery of these programmes.
You will work as part of the Clinical Skills Education team to develop and deliver a range of clinical skills training sessions to support the development of clinical competence across the range of healthcare professionals, in line with agreed directorate and Trust educational development strategies and priorities.
You will ensure the Trust's training, education and development priorities are delivered in a timely manner and support the drive to ensure clinical skills education is delivered to a high quality standard
You will act at all times in a manner that upholds the Trust's values and Professional Body standards, working as part of a team to ensure that educational outcomes focus on safe and excellent care with compassion.
About us
You will be based in Education centre 2 at Royal Preston Hospital in a purpose built education building with well equipped skills labs and skills training classrooms.
You will be part of the Clinical Skills education team working alongside other band 6 tutors, managed by a band 7 Team team leader. You will need to work hard, be flexible and have a passion and energy for teaching.
The Government have announced their intention to introduce the need for mandatory COVID vaccinations for all frontline patient facing roles (and those staff working in patient areas). This will come into effect from 1stApril 2022. This role may be in scope and as such if you are appointed it is likely that your COVID vaccination status will form part of your Occupational Health assessment. If you would like further information on the vaccine and for ways to book this please visitwww.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Plan, develop, co-ordinate and deliver clinical skills training sessions as directed by Team leader e.g V&C, ECG, Catheterisation, ANTT, A-E, ABLS.
- Develop supporting teaching materials including IT based learning packages e.g. Nearpod, e-learning and Kahoot
- Have the skills to use low and mid technical simulation manikins in delivery of sessions.
- Assist to prepare learning environments setting up stock and equipment prior to session start and to clean and store items correctly after use.
- Support maintenance of adequate stock levels through efficient liaison with technicians.
- Deliver, as part of faculty, the AIM (Acute Illness Management) course.
- Assist with delivery of Advanced Care Skills Programme (SECA).
- Carry out assessment of clinical skill competencies for Multi-disciplinary staff, including liaising with other teams to organise the delivery of OSCEs, fortnightly Doctors assessments, pre-employment Doctors assessments and any other assessments as required.
- To take the lead on the planning, organisation and delivery of the teams clinical skills framework sessions.
- Evaluate learning and development activities for effectiveness and to inform future practice.
- Ensure training and development activities are entered onto the OLM database promptly by Education Admin staff.
- To ensure that annual objectives are achieved in a timely and cost effective manner.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Plan, develop, co-ordinate and deliver clinical skills training sessions as directed by Team leader e.g V&C, ECG, Catheterisation, ANTT, A-E, ABLS.
- Develop supporting teaching materials including IT based learning packages e.g. Nearpod, e-learning and Kahoot
- Have the skills to use low and mid technical simulation manikins in delivery of sessions.
- Assist to prepare learning environments setting up stock and equipment prior to session start and to clean and store items correctly after use.
- Support maintenance of adequate stock levels through efficient liaison with technicians.
- Deliver, as part of faculty, the AIM (Acute Illness Management) course.
- Assist with delivery of Advanced Care Skills Programme (SECA).
- Carry out assessment of clinical skill competencies for Multi-disciplinary staff, including liaising with other teams to organise the delivery of OSCEs, fortnightly Doctors assessments, pre-employment Doctors assessments and any other assessments as required.
- To take the lead on the planning, organisation and delivery of the teams clinical skills framework sessions.
- Evaluate learning and development activities for effectiveness and to inform future practice.
- Ensure training and development activities are entered onto the OLM database promptly by Education Admin staff.
- To ensure that annual objectives are achieved in a timely and cost effective manner.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse
- oWilling to work towards and achieve teaching qualification
- oEvidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Degree or working towards a PG degree in Nursing
- Teaching Qualification
- Achievement of Essentials of Acute Care/ Advance Nursing Skills course/Post Grad Acute Care Course e.g. ALS/PLS/APLS/PHPLS
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oExperienced with excellent clinical skills
- oCurrent experience working in an acute Care environment
- oCurrent competency in clinical skills of venepuncture/cannulation/ECG, A-E Assessments, Respiratory Assessments etc
- oFormulation, delivery and evaluation of teaching/ training programmes
- oExperience of competency assessment
- oEvidence of actions taken to optimise learning outcomes and experience in the clinical environment
Desirable
- Experience in acute setting of A&E, MAU, CCU, CRCU, Respiratory medicine, surgery orthopaedics, pre hospital care
- Support of AIM sessions or equivalent
- Mentoring of students
- Experience of teaching clinical skills / Simulation
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse
- oWilling to work towards and achieve teaching qualification
- oEvidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Degree or working towards a PG degree in Nursing
- Teaching Qualification
- Achievement of Essentials of Acute Care/ Advance Nursing Skills course/Post Grad Acute Care Course e.g. ALS/PLS/APLS/PHPLS
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oExperienced with excellent clinical skills
- oCurrent experience working in an acute Care environment
- oCurrent competency in clinical skills of venepuncture/cannulation/ECG, A-E Assessments, Respiratory Assessments etc
- oFormulation, delivery and evaluation of teaching/ training programmes
- oExperience of competency assessment
- oEvidence of actions taken to optimise learning outcomes and experience in the clinical environment
Desirable
- Experience in acute setting of A&E, MAU, CCU, CRCU, Respiratory medicine, surgery orthopaedics, pre hospital care
- Support of AIM sessions or equivalent
- Mentoring of students
- Experience of teaching clinical skills / Simulation
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.
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).
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.
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).
