Mental Health Skills Facilitator
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Job overview
The Mental Health Skills Facilitator is responsible for delivering professional and client-centred learning and development interventions to meet the essential and relevant to role needs of clinical staff within the organisation. In conjunction with the Continuing Professional Development Manager, the post holder will develop and deliver learning and development interventions in accordance with the delivery of the Trust strategy, vision, values and desired culture to ensure that the Trust is equipped to provide a world class patient experience and is a great place to work for its staff.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be able to work effectively as a Mental Health Skills Facilitator within a mental health and learning disability Trust. They will have excellent communication skills, and welcome a challenge and have a real desire to make a difference to the clinical skills within Trust held by a range of clinical teams.The main duties of the job will include identifying and leading on a range of clinical skills specializing in the Trust specialty of mental health and learning disability including common Mental Health conditions, Clinical Risk Formulation, STORM, Brief Intervention Training, Psychosocial Intervention Training, and other skills, behaviours and competencies as required.
The successful candidate will be required to form key relationships with a range of stakeholders across the Trust and beyond in order to ensure that evidence based clinical skills are taught within the Trust.
The successful candidate will have responsibility for a range of a resources within their allocated projects. They will also be required to contribute where appropriate to research and development within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, across five boroughs of Greater Manchester
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to staff wellbeing.
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will also:
- Contribute to the education and workforce development action plan, to
- Contribute to the recruitment, induction, and development of clinical staff groups within the Trust.
- Support clinicians to identify, diagnose and plan to address learning and
development
- Manage and prioritise their own portfolio of work, consisting of learning and development and clinical skills responsibilities to meet required deadlines and objectives
- Design, deliver and evaluate learning programs and interventions
required, including but not limited to venepuncture, immunisation and vaccination updates, ECG, common mental health conditions and other skills, behaviours and competencies as required.
- Design and development of a range of learning and development
- Prepare learning and development resources and materials to support
- Facilitate work based learning opportunities such as working with teams on bespoke sessions to meet specific needs, working in collaboration with
- Supports other facilitators, trainers and Learning Associates across the
Development interventions.
- Support clinicians in the development and design of competency and
outcomes are measured and there are robust processes for embedding
learning into practice.
- Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff on learning
external learning opportunities were appropriate.
- Provide support, advice and guidance for managers and teams to identify
competency profiles that support clinical outcomes.
- Assist in the development and implementation of an annual L&D plan based on the training needs identified and prioritised via the learning needs
- Regularly undertake research and development in relation to L&D including horizon scanning of upcoming good practice, benchmarking with other organisations/industries to add value to our internal L&D services,
and regularly maintain own continuous professional development.
- Champion a continuous improvement mindset and a ‘can do’ approach to
added value through its services.
- To promote Essential/Key Skills uptake throughout the organisation, to
- Design and deliver effective learning and development interventions tailored to the perspective and communication needs of the audience.
- Demonstrate effective influencing and negotiation skills to achieve effective outcomes
- Actively communicate through a range of styles appropriate to the situation and acknowledges, recognises and encourages the contribution of others
- Develop understanding of the wider organisational objectives and plans
- Communicate complex and highly sensitive information effectively and
- Recognise and celebrate the success and achievements of own team and
- Communicate updates, ideas and share developments in order to develop
- Provide facilitation skills to improve individual and team skills and
organisation’s objectives
- Respond to competing demands and changing priorities
- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of relevant projects in order to
- Continuously improve own knowledge of L&D practice, benchmarking,
- Utilise MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a variety of databases to create
guidance documents as appropriate.
- Travel to meetings nationally, regionally and locally as and when required.
- Contribute to the Education and Workforce Development L&D planning, the development of the Education and Workforce Development Action Plan and the development of skills, competencies and behaviours to ensure safe and effective services to patients/service users/clients. Provide facilitation
- Policy and Service Development Implementation
- To deputise for the CPD Manager
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria- Degree or equivalent
- Registered healthcare professional eg RMN, RGN, RLDN, AHP, SW
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Learning and Development qualification to post graduate diploma level e.g. Mentorship qualification, Supervisor/Assessor training , ‘Train the Trainer’ qualification, CertEd (or willing to work towards)
- Dual registration
- Coaching or mentoring qualification
- ECDL or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria- Demonstrable experience of design, delivery and evaluation of clinical skills training for a range of staff
- Demonstrable experience of effective team working
- Demonstrable experience of working independently
- Demonstrable extensive experience of managing own workload
- Multi-professional teaching/ training
- Competency based learning, and designing assessments of learning
- Facilitating competency based learning, and designing assessments of learning
- Demonstrable experience of design, delivery and evaluation of training for multi-professional groups across a wide range of subjects
- Managing working/ project groups
- Working with external agencies and consultants to determine learning needs, design interventions, and deliver education
Work Related Circumstances
Essential criteria- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.
What happens after your application has been received?
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.
What happens if I am offered the position after interview?
The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.
What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?
By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:
- Identity verification
- Right to work check
- Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
- Professional registration and/or qualification check
- Occupational health assessment
- Employment history and reference validation
All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.
If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.
What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?
Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.
Other important information- We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
- If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
- If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
- Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
- We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.