Clinical Education Support Officer

Job summary

Heath care support worker education is an integral part of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB), Clinical Education team who work to ensure that Health Care Support Workers are supported in delivering safe and efficient patient care through facilitation of the All Wales Induction Framework and further education opportunities.

The post holder will support the healthcare support worker team in delivering and facilitating the education for health, and social work staff, facilities and allied health professionals between bands 2-4.

The post holder will support the administrative function of the Healthcare Support Worker Framework and several funding streams for Post Registration Education and liaise with stakeholders to help facilitate above.

The post holder will act independently within clearly defined occupational policies with work managed rather than supervised, providing a range of administrative support and effectively deliver and prioritise a wide range of duties, including some pastoral care duties.

The post holder will also be required to work flexibly within a busy working environment and develop the role and alter its scope as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

If you are a Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Boardemployee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

Under the supervision of the HCSW Education and Development Manager, the post will involve the co-ordination of effective and efficient clinical education provision that meets the requirements of the HCSW Framework. This will involve devising lesson plans, delivering training and communicating with other UHB staff and external course tutors to gain their availability to deliver education sessions to the HCSW's undertaking the Framework.

The post holder will be available and accessible to all Health Care Support Workers undertaking the training. They will make effective use of current training programmes and will support the delivery of new programmes developed by the Nurse Education Department.

The post holder will have excellent communication, and presentation skills to support a flexible range of clinical education programmes in order to support Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board in the delivery of the HCSW Framework to all health and social care staff.

The role will require use of a range of administration systems, including databases and spreadsheets to co-ordinate and record the HCSW's education, in accordance with Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB policy and procedure.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.