Professional Practice Educator - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Band 7

Main area
- nursing and midwifery

Grade

Band 7

Contract

Permanent: Part time Monday
Wednesday

Hours

Part time hours per week (Monday to Wednesday occasional weekend/evening working)

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Site

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Town

Nottingham

Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

Today at 23:59

Job overview

Professional Practice Educator Band hours per week Monday
Wednesday

Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre is a centre of excellence for multiprofessional learning and education and is a regional centre for advanced clinical simulation-based education as well as offering a range of clinical skills based teaching for local and regional NHS staff.

Our educational activities include teaching programmes related to patient safety, Human Factors and team training

We are looking for an experienced educator in high fidelity simulation to join our team.

Working with multiprofessional teams at NUH as well as education and clinical colleagues from across the region, you will play a key part in the development and delivery of education programmes that support patient safety as well as developing our extensive education programmes in simulation, clinical skills, team training and Human Factors.

Main duties of the job

Alongside your teaching responsibilities, you will help shape and lead a range of educational audit and research projects and take a lead in quality assurance at a local level and contribute to regional and national initiatives.

You will represent the Department at key local, regional and national events, presenting work and sharing best practice.

You will have a clinical background, teaching experience in both high fidelity simulation and clinical environments and be passionate about education and developing others.

Able to work on your own initiative as well as support others to achieve their goals, you will be able to critically assess a range of data to inform and develop programmes.

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will represent the Department at key local, regional and national events, presenting work and sharing best practice.

You will have previous experience of leading and working with multiprofessional teams to achieve shared goals and will enjoy working collaboratively, able to resolve conflicts and seek solutions to issues that arise.

You will line manage Band 6 Clinical Educators including undertaking appraisals as well as mentoring other team members, students and Fellows as relevant.

Person specification

Training and qualifications

Essential criteria

Clinical qualifications 1st level registered nurse or equivalent medical/ allied health qualifications
Currents registration with professional body
Post registration qualification and training relevant to specialty
Demonstrates continued professional development
Teaching qualification
Masters qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

Related postgraduate qualifications
Human Factors, Improvement Science
Attendance at Training trainer courses
Studying for or holds Masters in Medical/Clinical Education
Mentor/assessor qualification

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria

Able to present and receive highly complex information to a multiprofessional audience
Demonstrable negotiation and influencing skills
Assertiveness and the ability to deal with interpersonal conflict
Team player who can initiate, delegate and complete projects
Good interpersonal and presentation skills, both written and verbal skills.
Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
Able to establish effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels and internal /external to organisation
Able to support anxious/distressed colleagues/students

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential criteria

Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse highly complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place,
Ability to generate and present directorate level reports and documents
Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined guidelines
Evidence of data collection, evaluation and analysis
Able to work alone and make decisions

Desirable criteria

Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for research/audit
Able to collect, synthesize, analyse and prioritise training needs data and develop appropriate responses

Planning and Organisation skills

Essential criteria