Endoscopy Clinical Educator
Job overview
The role of Clinical Educator will be to work alongside the Senior Nursing Team within Endoscopy to ensure high quality, effective and safe care for all service users. The post holder is charged with ensuring the continuing education and training of all staff.
Main duties of the job
The Endoscopy Unit at Trafford General Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and proactive leader to join us as our dedicated Endoscopy Clinical Educator.
Our procedures are varied and diverse and include diagnostics, therapeutics and surveillance, gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, PEG insertion, Bronchoscopy and EBUS, delivering high quality care to our patients.
We are looking for an individual with a keen interest in education and experience in endoscopy to work with our staff to develop their skills and knowledge.
Your remit will be to support staff within the Endoscopy unit but you will also have close working relationships with the wider team and Trust Clinical Educators.
Endoscopy experience is essential. Although not essential a teaching qualification is desirable and a proven record of formal or informal training is required.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification.This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse Diploma/Degree
- Evidence of relevant post qualification study
- Special interest in teaching & training others
- Mentor qualification
- Recognized Management Certificate (LEAD)
- Endoscopy Post Registration Study
- GIN/JET Facilitator
Experience
Essential criteria- Endoscopy experience at Band 5 or above.
- Ability to motivate others in the team and demonstrate personal initiative.
- Teaching in a clinical environment
- Experience of preparing for JAG/GRS
- Experience gained through previous employment or training
- Working with multidisciplinary students