Job responsibilities
Job
Title: Practice Education Facilitator
Fixed
Term 12 months
Business Group: Greater Manchester
Training Hub
Equivalent Band: 6
Hours or Programmed Activities: Part-time/ Full
Time
Base: Manchester, Stockport Glossop, Tameside
.
Accountable
to: Clinical Lead for Manchester Stockport and Tameside & Glossop
Local Training Hub
Reports
to: Strategic Business Manager Greater Manchester Training Hub
Overview
The Greater Manchester Training Hub is the Health
Education England Primary and Community Care Training Hub, and is comprised of
4 Local Training Hubs, brought together by an overarching GM Training Hub
(GMTH) team.
The
GMTH is the platform for developing educational opportunities with the GM sustainability and transformation partnership (STP),
to grow and strengthen the primary care workforce.
The Manchester, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop Local Training Hub
(MSTG LTH), part of the Greater Manchester Training Hub is developing an
excellent clinical education team to deliver education and workforce
transformation across three Greater Manchester localities.
The MST&G Local Training Hub has delivered consistently since
2015, whilst working in innovative ways with all providers, education partners
and universities and all within the GM Training Hub team.
We are seeking a Practice Education Facilitator to join the team and
support the advancement of the local training hub in delivering workforce
development, training and education in localities, primary care networks and GP
practices and providers. We are looking for an existing and experienced PEF who
can bring the necessary expertise to a primary care setting.
Greater
Manchester Training HUB Clinical Staffing Structure
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Communications
Develop the knowledge and
skills to act as an expert resource/ Champion of Inter-professional Learning with
Placement Providers.
Communicate educational and practice information across placement providers and educational Institutions.
Communicate effectively and
appropriately between internal & external partners.
Share best practice relating to
Quality Assurance and Inter-professional Learning across placement providers.
Produce a 6 monthly progress
report to inform Learning and Development and Agreement monitoring.
Ensure that confidentiality is
maintained at all times in
conjunction with organizational policies.
Service Improvement
Ensure that academic rigor in practice
learning is maintained, that learning outcomes
can be met, and are aligned with service reconfigurations.
Contribute to multi
professional quality assurance monitoring of education in practice within own
organization, Quality Assurance systems which are aligned with the learning and
development agreement process in partnership with Education providers. and across organizational boundaries aligned
with the Learning and Development Agreement
process, and with Quality Assurance systems in partnership with Education Providers.
Continuously monitor practice
learning activities against quality assurance standards enabling ongoing
enhancement of the learning experience.
Support clinical educators/
practice supervisors and assessors to perform educational audits/ self-
assessments, and support mentors/ practice supervisors and assessors in the
delivery of education action plans.
Undertake research
and development relevant
to education in practice and the clinical
learning environment.
Assess the quality of learning environments against quality assurance standards, suggesting
improvement measures to enhance the student learning experience.
Support clinical educators,
practice supervisors and assessors in complex decisions relating to the student
experience including the achievement of learning outcomes,
competence and fitness
for practice.
Plan and implement development
programmes and assessment processes for all healthcare students with HEIs.
Identify shortfalls in supervision and practice education to
inform commissioning intentions, and facilitate access to multiprofessional
practice supervision programmes/ updates and training opportunities.
Provide best practice advice in
a clinical setting for clinical educators/ practice supervisors and staff in relation to education in practice.
Leadership
Contribute to maintaining and
improving own professional knowledge and competence, and that of clinical
educators, practice supervisors and assessors in practice.
Participate in an annual,
collaborative appraisal process
to enable achievement of objectives and management of learning needs.
Manage own workload
independently and prioritizing as required.
Participate in clinical
supervision/ professional mentoring and coaching.
Responsibilities for Teaching and
Training
Plan, design and deliver
structured inter-professional learning
in practice for healthcare students and clinical educators, practice
supervisors and assessors.
Contribute to the planning,
delivery and review of multi-professional development programmes for clinical
educator, practice supervisors in order to meet
the learning needs of different professional groups, and to ensure that the facilitation of
interprofessional learning outcomes is included.
Identify opportunities where multiprofessional mentorship and
practice supervision can be facilitated in practice as a foundation for
interprofessional learning to take place.
Produce and maintain a portfolio
of education in practice activity within service area(s).
Develop, implement and review
education in the clinical and other
practice learning environments in line with educational policy
Development and Innovation
Identify outcomes of
interprofessional learning in order
to facilitate the breadth of the student experience, and evaluate the
effectiveness of any change.
Contribute to the development
of agreed core outcomes of placement allocation and management.
Contribute to Health Education North Wests wider engagement framework in the delivery
of defined clinical placement initiatives.
Network locally, regionally and
nationally with peer group to support the sharing of best practice.
For an informal discussion about the
role please contact alisonlea@nhs.net
Clinical Lead
