Practice Education Facilitator - Bury, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Bury, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge.

Together, we've a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore.

If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
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come and take your place with us.

Job overview:

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality multi-professional learning environments within The Northern Care Alliance and will be required to work locally within services where inter professional learning opportunities can be promoted. The post holder will be required to support the breadth of the student experience, which may require cross boundary working, and contribute to the delivery of the new standards to support learning in practice.

Main duties of the job:

Assessing the quality of a range of practice learning environments, determining interventions to sustain and enhance practice education; ensuring all service areas/placement providers have an up to date action plan in place, informing the annual quality monitoring of Learning and Development Agreements.

Supporting and facilitating the development of clinical practice mentors/practice assessors/supervisors, providing supervision and support structures in order to build education in practice capacity, capability, consistency and efficiency.

Leading on the structuring and co-ordination of inter professional learning activity across a service area(s).

Developing, co-coordinating, evaluating and implementing pre-registration education programmes with Higher Education partners. For example contributing to curriculum development, validation and review through the Quality Review of the Education Contracts.

Working for our organisation:

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT).

Our dedicated team of around 20,000 staff - our NCA Family - provide a range of community and hospital services to over one million people across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford, as well as providing more specialist care services to patients across Greater Manchester and beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Collaborate with key external partners in Higher Education Institutions to ensure academic rigour in practice learning is maintained, learning outcomes can be met, and are aligned with Service re configurations.

Participate in multi professional quality assurance monitoring of education in practice within own organisation and across organisational boundaries, aligned with the Learning and Development Agreement process, and with Quality Assurance systems in partnership with Education Providers.

Continuously monitor practice learning activities against quality assurance standards enabling ongoing enhancement of the learning experience.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

Essential criteria:

1st level degree, professional qualification to a minimum of degree level with up to date professional registrationAchieved grade
Masters level study relating to education in practice.

Skills:

Essential criteria:

Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds.
Excellent time management skills
Excellent interpersonal skills able to engage and build effective relationships at all levels in stakeholder organisations.

Desirable criteria:

Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative.
Adaptable to meet different learning styles/preferences.
Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative.

Knowledge:

Desirable criteria:

Working knowledge of inter professional learning theory

Experience:

Essential criteria:

Experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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