Practice Educator (Learning Disability services)

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The BDCFT Virtual Centre for Clinical Education and Professional Development is excited to offer a 12 month fixed term/secondment opportunity ( to cover maternity leave).

The Practice Education for Learning Disability services will support the trust to deliver a robust locally delivered education and pastoral support for defined staff groups and learners within the practice learning environment. They will be required to

Develop and facilitate a refreshed, tailored, blended programme of face to face, on-line learning and clinical skills teaching for each set of learners
Support the locally delivered preceptorship pathway
Develop and facilitate peer support networks/safe and supported sessions for students/apprentices and newly qualified nurses/nursing associates
Ensure live register of training provided and attendees
Provide frequent pastoral support on group/individual basis
The post holder will also support Health Education England as a Learning Disability Champion (2 days per week) to link with a range of stakeholders and be a consistent source of support across the integrated care system.
The LD Champion workstream will require links with the general public, student nurses, learning disability nursing teams in inpatient, community and primary care, HEIs offering learning disability nursing training and also schools and colleges to promote the role of learning disability nursing as a rewarding career choice.

Main duties of the job

To support Bradford District Care Trust to deliver a robust locally delivered education and pastoral support for defined staff groups and learners within the Learning Disability practice learning environment. To also work under the directive of LD Workforce Leads (Health Education England) and network across the ICB when engaging in wider workstreams eg LD nurse ambassador visits to schools/college and recruitment and retention pieces.

Develop and facilitate a refreshed, tailored, blended programme of face to face, on-line learning and clinical skills teaching for each set of learners within BDCFT
Support the locally delivered preceptorship pathway
Develop and facilitate peer support networks/safe and supported sessions for students/apprentices and newly qualified nurses/nursing associates within LD services
Ensure live trust register of training provided and attendees
Provide frequent in-house pastoral support on group/individual basis
Support the evaluation of training provision and impact of the Practice Educator role through triangulation with recruitment, retention, student experience and other appropriate metrics/data collection

The Practice Educator role will sit within the Virtual Centre for Clinical Education and Professional Development. This is an innovative and proactive team who are committed and passionate around the education, development and pastoral care for the current and future workforce.

Closing Date: 27th March 2023

Interview Date: 3rd April 2023

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 - 7

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Date posted

13 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

453-23-5121267

Job locations

Hillside Bridge HC,

Butler Street (west)

Bradford

BD3 0BS

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Learning Disability nurse qualification with a minimum of 2 years post registration experience
Active NMC registration

education and training

Essential

Recognised teaching and assessing qualification/experience of being a mentor/practice supervisor and practice assessor to pre registration student nurses
Experience of facilitating group and individual learning sessions and assessing the effectiveness of teaching delivered and knowledge and skills acquisition experience of presenting material to a range of learners

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Learning Disability nurse qualification with a minimum of 2 years post registration experience
Active NMC registration

education and training

Essential

Recognised teaching and assessing qualification/experience of being a mentor/practice supervisor and practice assessor to pre registration student nurses
Experience of facilitating group and individual learning sessions and assessing the effectiveness of teaching delivered and knowledge and skills acquisition experience of presenting material to a range of learners

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.