Clinical Practice Educator
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
This is a great opportunity for an experienced nurse educator who is interested in supporting our registered and unregistered nursing workforce to develop and grow
We have an opportunity to support our UK-trained and internationally-trained nurses and healthcare support workers to settle into life at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
The role will ensure educational support for these staff, for their development within the clinical environment. Supporting them to deliver high quality evidence based care.
We are looking for a proactive, knowledgeable and leadership focused individuals who will organise, deliver and review programmes to support nurses as they transition into registered role, into new clinical settings and into our organisation.
Main duties of the job- To provide direct support to both newly recruited registered nurses, established RNs, and health care support workers during their preceptorship period.
- To ensure that the registered nurses and health care support workers are supported in the safe delivery of good quality evidence-based care.
The post holder will work in a supernumerary capacity within the clinical areas (80% of time) working alongside nurses and health care support workers in delivering direct care to support the development of skills and competencies. The clinical practice educators will also deliver clinical skills teaching both within the clinical area and in a classroom, environment as required.
The role will work as a link between ward teams (ward managers and preceptors) and the practice development team to support nurses and health care support workers both individually or as teams to develop their clinical skills.
Working for our organisation
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping.
Our Values
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence. In return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
The Clinical Practice Educator plays an important role in providing support to our nurses and newly registered nursing, midwifery and AHP staff within the organisation. The role aims to facilitate and develop the clinical skills of individuals through empowerment, education and assessment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- NMC registration educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of nursing education and development
- Established practice assessor/supervisor (or equivalent)
- Evidence of significant ongoing professionaL/leadership development
- Teaching/education qualification
- Professional advocate certificate
Experience
Essential criteria- Significant experience in a band 6 role within an adult acute nursing field
- Experience supporting learners (of all levels) in practice
- Experience in delivering and evaluating training or development programmes to support nurses across a range of roles
- Experience in teaching or presenting to others
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of quality improvement projects
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria- Demonstrate knowledge of care quality commission regulations and key national NHS drivers
- Knowledge of wider professional issues and national agenda
- Demonstrates an understanding of key issues impacting our newly registered nurses
- Demonstrate ability to lead by example and to motivate and empower others
What we can offer you:
- Full induction and onboarding process in our organisation
- Free car parking for our staff
- Structured pay scheme, including additional living supplement to your basic salary
- Minimum 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff)
- Access to our Alex Lounge, our staff only rest area with free tea and coffee
- Access to NHS Pension scheme
- Flexible working options available, in line with our flexible working policy
- Onsite creche facilities
- Annual appraisals with career pathways
- In-house training courses
- Discounted hospital restaurant
- Staff health and wellbeing health services and complimentary health provision
- Our Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all its employees. We welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can also be made for any candidates with a disability
- All new colleagues joining PAHT will be subject to a probationary period of six months
- The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment
- Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and vulnerable adults. Offers of employment are subject to pre-employment NHS screening checks
- Providing false or misleading information or unsatisfactory pre-employment checks may result in the offer of a post being withdrawn