Band 7 Practice Education Facilitator - Bristol

Job overview

One of the 2 days will cross over with the current PEF.

This role will ideally sit alongside their clinical role in the Trust.

If you'd like to talk to Sophie the current PEF about the role please get in touch [email protected] or contact [email protected], interim Head of Allied Health professions.

Main duties of the job

In this post, you will:

• Assess the quality of current and potential learning environments, supporting colleagues to offer a good standard of vocational training aligned with relevant learning outcomes and clinical standards.
• Model, articulate and promote good practice around the HCPC standards for student education and the professional bodies, RCOT, CSP, BDA, RCS< contributing to a range of audit and reporting processes (e.g. Health Education England data returns)
• Maintain a professional liaison between AWP and its partnering Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), representing the Trust in a range of meetings, forums and negotiating spaces.
• Actively engage with AWP clinicians, learners and educational colleagues to alleviate concerns, remove barriers and to ensure the smooth running of practice placements.
• In this role, you will be a highly visible and accessible resource to teams, and you will be an advocate for learning and education in everything you do.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

• Advise clinical teams, Practice Assessors/Supervisors on teaching best practice in a clinical setting to deliver and maintain high clinical standards for service users and families and supporters.
• Influence and inform the development of effective and high quality learning opportunities for learners, acting as a visible resource to clinical teams
• Implement agreed actions to maximise the required placement capacity in all clinical teams within the Trust where AHP’s are present
• Develop strong links with Practice Educators to support them within the placement areas
• Support the development of Practice Educators in the clinical teams including the delivery of updates, workshops, conferences and development meetings
• Enhance and maintain working partnership relationships with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and other system and Regional Education Co-ordinators
• Provide support mechanisms for practice educators in liaison with the HEIs in addressing individual student issues, including suboptimal performance
• Represent the Trust in operational meetings with HEIs to ensure that issues of concern about practice and performance are fully addressed. This will include addressing situations where students have raised concerns about placements.
• Work to develop a register of AHP practice educators and ensure systems are in place in the organisation to maintain this
• Facilitate the annual audits of practice environments with the HEIs, ensuring that improvements identified through the process are embedded and maintained, and student feedback is fully utilised to drive improvements in student experience
• Challenge poor performance among practice educators and learners, identifying required improvements and ensuring these are followed up.
• Participate in and support student recruitment initiatives and induction events
• Support the development of improved practice education within AWP and HEIs through contributing to local and national initiatives, including placement expansion
• Maintain clinical competencies as identified in the training matrix
• Promote up to date evidence/research based practice in relation to the assessment of students and other learners and demonstrate this in own practice
• Act as a change agent and support other staff in the implementation of new practices.
• Evaluate the quality of student placement experience through the audit cycle and lead or contribute to quality initiatives within the clinical areas.

Person specification

Experience and qualifications

• Experience in Student Education Multiple AHP Professions
• Qualification/Formal education in teaching and learning
• Well organised full use of Microsoft packages.
• Confident communicator face to face, phone technology enable. Face to face presentation skills.
• Experience of organising events, conferences etc.

• ICB level experience in AHP learning issues

This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

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