Student Support Practitioner - West Moors, United Kingdom - Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
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West Moors, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Are you looking to join a friendly, supportive and innovative team where your voice will be heard, your contributions valued and your skills and experience celebrated?

Are you ready to shape and influence our patient's experience through the support and development of students and apprentices and their placements in order to provide the NHS with a compassionate and effective future workforce?

If you have answered "yes" to the questions above, you may be just the person we are looking for to join our Practice Development Team as a Student Support Practitioner (previously Practice Educator)


You will be a health care professional registered with either the Nursing & Midwifery Council or the Health and Care Professions Council.

This role offers a proactive and enthusiastic professional the opportunity to review current learning, make a positive impact on student experiences through pastoral support and to help shape service-learning culture.


Using advanced communication skills the post holder will be engaging with a range of staff members and services across Dorset Healthcare environments to inform and influence practice from an educational perspective and to negotiate and plan placements.

Support multidisciplinary, pre-registration learners on placement across the organisation as part of the Student Support Team.

Support, influence and improve the quality of the learning environment by providing advice, supervision and guidance for learners.

This will enable the practice setting to provide the best possible placement experience, ultimately enabling delivery of high-quality patient centred care.


Working with and being the conduit between HEI's and placements in order to plan placements to maximise learner's needs, consider new programmes and expand capacity.

Internally manage, negotiate and allocate capacity in order to meet the different needs of Higher Education Institutes.

Provide pastoral and professional practice support for learners and placement supervisors/assessors, provide supervisor/assessor training and maintenance of records.


Ability to travel to support learners and placements across Trust's sites as and when required and in order to work flexibly to meet the requirements of the team.


The post holder will facilitate direct and indirect support, guidance and pastoral support to pre-registration learners, Practice Supervisors, Practice Assessors and Practice Educators to support learning in practice placements across the trust.

This requires the post holder to forge strong relationships with partners across the region and with clinical staff across a range of learning environments throughout the organisation.


At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services.

We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019.

It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference.

Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.


Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people.

We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity.

We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.


Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know.

And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

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