Practice Educator - Faversham, United Kingdom - Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Faversham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Are you a Band 5 or 6 nurse looking to progress in your career or wanting new challenge?

Are you someone who wants to support complex health needs children in your community?

Would you like an opportunity to develop and train others in Kent and have the flexibility to manage your own case load and diary?

If yes, our Practice Educator role could be just right for you. We are looking for an experienced paediatric nurse who has good clinical skills and has a passion for teaching health-related tasks to non-registered staff and NHS support workers who deliver care in the child's homes and within KCC short
breaks units.


As part of this role you will provide expert and specialist advice, teaching, assessing, supervision and support within the team in order to ensure they are competent to deliver efficient and safe care to the children and young people and work collaboratively and effectively with all other health care professionals and those allied to health and social care involved with the children and families.


As a Practice Educator you will communicate information in an empathetic way to parents and carers which relates to the clinical care of their child/young person and the provision available to them.


You will have sound knowledge, experience and skills in all basic clinical nursing skills such as enteral feeding, care of enteral devices, care of tracheostomies, suctioning, oxygen therapy, care of stomas, emergency interventions during seizures and administration of medication etc.


In addition, you will act as a specialist health resource for nursing support workers and social care colleagues within the short breaks service and external to it, and provide expert nursing assessment, analysis and judgement skills to them in order to ensure provision of an equitable service within the unit.

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated 'outstanding' by the CQC.

We've got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities.

To do this we need outstanding people who share our values C ompassionate A spirational R esponsive E xcellent.

We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we're reminded every day how important life is.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments.

We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

Looking for professional development? We can support that too Our career pathways will help you achieve your aspirations.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role.

Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.


Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

Find out more about the community difference here.

Good luck We can't wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity


Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated.

In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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