Specialist Practice Educator - Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom - Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

Description

Macmillan Palliative and End of Life Care Practice Educator
Band 7
Main area Specialist Palliative Care Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time hours per week (Seven day service) Job ref
Site Northampton General Hospital Town Northampton Salary £43,742 - £50,056 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/05/2024 23:59

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Macmillan Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care team at Northampton General Hospital as a Practice Educator.

As an integral part of a dedicated and innovative team, the post holder will lead on and deliver quality palliative and end of life care education across the trust.

This role includes clinical working within the specialist palliative care team as part of seven day service provision. Significant palliative care knowledge and skills will be required alongside extensive teaching and education experience.

The post holder will demonstrate a broad range of effective communication skills and have a clear passion for supporting learners and consequently enhancing delivery of quality palliative and end of life care.

We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.

As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds.
This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
As a member of the Trust's Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care Team, the post-holder will
be the Lead for Palliative and End of Life care Education and Practice Development. development and implementation of a comprehensive trust wide education and training
programme to improve the quality of adult palliative and end of life care delivery.
Lead nurse /deputy lead nurse for specialist palliative and end of life care
Clinical lead for specialist palliative and end of life care
Specialist palliative care team, CNS's and nurses
Inpatient ward teams, sisters, matrons, medical staff, AHPs, housekeeping and domestic
Non-malignant specialist teams (such as respiratory, heart failure, outreach, dementia)
PALS and complaints team
Quality improvement team
Professional practice development team
Medical education team
Foundation Trust (NHFT)
Education and training
Substantial post registration experience in healthcare in a professional post with specialist palliative care experience
Evidence of both relevant and recent continuous professional development
Relevant teaching and assessing qualification, alongside significant teaching experience
Post registration course in palliative care or relevant field
Advanced communication skills training
Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
Significant post registration experience, some of which must have been in specialist palliative care preferably at a CNS level
Experience of supporting and teaching within clinical; areas and facilitating both group and one to one education sessions
Clear, up to date and thorough knowledge of palliative and end of life care clinical and professional issues, including statutory frameworks and national policy
Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating education programmes to a variety of audiences
Advance care planning experience
Experience of working collaboratively within education systems
Experience of data analysis and audit evaluation, conference presentation
Experience of project management
Ability to develop and foster constructive multi-disciplinary working and support a caseload of patients when appropriate
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Passionate and committed to bring Trust values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
Clinical credibility, flexible and positive approach to work
Car owner/driver with a clean current driver's licence

As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.

We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).

It's all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills.

We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.

As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds.
To apply for this post, scroll down to the bottom of this page and select "apply online now".

In submitting an application form, you authorise Northampton General Hospital to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority Transfer process should you be appointed to the post.

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Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust recognises that staff of differing backgrounds and life experiences enrich our workforce and bring different skills and knowledge.

We therefore encourage and welcome applications for our vacancies from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

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