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

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Nottingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

NHS AfC:
Band 7


Main area
- nursing and midwifery
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Grade

  • NHS AfC: Band 7
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Contract

  • Fixed term: 7 months (part time 0.5 wte)
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Hours

  • Part time
  • Flexible working
18.75 hours per week (Monday to Friday occasional weekend/evening working)
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Job ref

Site

  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Town

  • Nottingham
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Salary
- £41,659 - £47,672 per annum
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Salary period

  • Yearly
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Closing

  • 12/04/2023 23:59Job overview

Professional Practice Educator Band hours per week

Maternity leave cover - fixed term /secondment opportunity.


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 to provide maternity cover for our Professional Practice Educator until 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


You will have a clinical background ( nursing /midwifery/AHP/ODP/Medical), 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


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 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.

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
Experience

Essential criteria

  • Post registration experience including management/ and leadership
  • Practical experience teaching small groups and multiprofessional teams
  • Can lead change and is able to demonstrate implementation of new ways of working within team
  • Experience of giving feedback on a one to one basis in an educational setting
  • Experience of supervising a team and carrying out appraisals
  • Carrying our audit
  • Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from internet.
  • Understanding of human factors principles
  • Previous experience of working in clinical skills or simulation environment
Desirable criteria

  • Experience in undertaking, and reporting/presenting audit / research work at local (Trust) level.
  • Experience of facilitation, Large group teaching, multiprofessional teaching.
  • Experience of acting as course convenor for a teaching module/programme
  • Participation in audit/research projects
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 p
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