Band 6 Clinical Practice Educator

Job summary

Our Practice Education Team is expanding! We have exciting Clinical Practice Educator positions to support our workforce redesign. If you are confident in your clinical, teaching, assessing skills, and complex decision-making, you can help deliver comprehensive training programs across the Integrated Children's Community Nursing Service and to various non-healthcare professionals, following organisational and national guidelines.

As part of a small team, you will work collaboratively and autonomously to implement and evaluate education programs, positively impacting the quality of patient care for babies, children, and young people with complex health needs. With a flexible working pattern across clinical shifts, you will ensure high professional standards in line with C&V UHB policies, values and behaviours.

We offer continued professional development opportunities to keep your clinical and non-clinical skills and knowledge challenged and of high standard. You will support registered and unregistered staff members and students in their professional and personal growth. This role requires collaborative work with the multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency services.

Our team is proactive in innovation and implementing changes to meet the needs of colleagues, families, and the children we serve. If you have the qualities and passion for this role, please see the details below.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

• To deliver training, assessment, education, development and training programmes and educational strategy across the Integrated Childrens Community Nursing Service and to a range of non-health care professionals in line with organisational and national guidelines.

• The Clinical Practice Educator is accountable for their own professional actions, and is responsible for supporting the collaborative development, implementation and evaluation of education programmes to positively impact the delivery of quality patient care.

• The post holder will work alongside registered, non-registered, nursing staff and allied health professionals caring for children and young people (YP) whom have complex health needs within the community setting, to support with learning and assess competence and confidence.

• The post holder will ensure service delivery is of a high professional standard that is in line with C&V UHB policies and values.

• As a professional nurse, the Clinical Practice Educator is responsible for the provision of support and assistance requiring dexterity, precision, accuracy and prolonged concentration to patients, nursing and allied health professional.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.