Clinical Nurse Educator- Emergency Departments, Band 6
- NHS
- Part Time
- Gloucester
- 37338.00 - 44962.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
The Practice Educator role exists to deliver excellent education and development activity, in support of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Journey to Outstanding and the achievement of the People and Organisational Development Strategy: Caring for those who care, specifically the enabling pillars of Workforce Sustainability, Colleague Experience and Transformation.
The Practice Educator will work collaboratively within both emergency department supporting the trust Professional Education. For support for all learners and academic institution colleagues to effectively influence the delivery of effective high quality, safe patient centred care by practitioners in nursing support roles - apprentice Health Care Assistants, Healthcare Assistants, Health Care Support Workers, Student Nursing Associates (SNA's), pre-registration nurses and future Nursing Associates/Registered Nurses.
Main duties of the job
The Practice Educator will be a visible role model cross site of GRH and CGH, providing expert advice, knowledge, guidance and support to clinicians. They will increase Emergency department clinical skills and support with all areas of clinical need, engage staff raising aspirations and achievements. On a practical level this will involve being responsible for engaging with staff to:
- Help attract and develop the support workforce with the skills, knowledge and competence necessary to deliver safe patient care and to enhance the quality-of-service delivery.
- Support departments to recruit and retain Student Nursing Associates and future Nursing Associates
- Widen participation by providing fair access to Learning and Development opportunities, clinical education, e-learning and functional skills.
- Increase awareness areas of development that the department needs from all areas of the nursing teams, raising aspirations and achievements.
- Provide professional support and facilitation to unit managers/team leaders to plan and evaluate their educational learning environment so that the department and increase the knowledge and skill bases of all emergency department staff.
- This will enable staff to identify learning opportunities within their areas & develop adequate numbers of practice supervisors and assessors who will support students on educational programs to fulfil professional standard proficiencies.
About us
I am delighted you are interested in the Medicine Division Medical Secretary position here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We provide acute hospital services from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Maternity Services are also provided at Stroud Maternity Hospital. We remain the major provider of secondary care services in the area and analysis shows that for Gloucestershire we are the leading acute healthcare provider by a significant margin.
Here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and pivotal to this are our Secretarial and Administration Teams, whose dedication, expertise and kindness ensures that patients receive the very best care throughout their pathway through our services. I wish you every success with your application to join this team.
Job responsibilities
Key relationships & Communication
The Practice Educator is required to:
- Work collaboratively within a highly motivated, skilled and engaged team committed to delivering best care for everyone.
- Communicate complex messages effectively and productively with a range of staff at all levels in the Trust as well as with our partnering organisations in health and education.
- Build and sustain successful working relationships with colleagues within the department and the wider leadership team and trust.
- Provide, receive and interpret information to and from the following if needed from the Emergency department Practice development lead.
- Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing for Unscheduled care
- Emergency Department Matron
- Practice Educator Emergency Department Lead
- Practice Educator Band 6
- Patient safety and clinical risk lead
- Senior Sister Emergency Department
- Clinical Band 6 Sister/ Charge Nurse
- Rapid Clinical Practitioner
- Professional Education Manager
- Practice Education Facilitators
- Professional Education Practitioners
- Practice Educators
- Apprenticeships & Careers team manager
- Apprenticeships & Careers team
- Director and Deputy Director Quality and Nursing
- Senior management for all professions and departments
- Other (including external) Educational Providers
- Health Education England
- NMC
- The wider Gloucestershire Health Community
- External Organisations including other Health Service providers and Government funding agencies
Key Deliverables
- Ensure accurate records of training and competencies are undertaken and maintained
- Manage and maintain training equipment.
- Develop teaching material based on current departmental trends.
- Support new staff with their transition into the Emergency Departments.
Patient care
- Demonstrate and promote a patient centred style of clinical practice that is caring, compassionate and embodies our vision of best care for everyone.
Professional practice
- Ensure clinical and educational practice is evidence based or peer reviewed best practice.
- Be competent in the use of all relevant Trust IT systems including the use of electronic patient record, email, social media and Microsoft.
- Maintain regular use of emails to keep abreast of information disseminated in the Trust.
- Adhere to the NMC code of practice at all times and operate within the NMC scope of professional practice.
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of Accountability, responsibility and Duty of Care and work towards the provision of support and education for less experienced and non-registered staff on the implications for practice.
Leadership and management
- Comply with Trust and Departmental policies and procedures e.g. Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Manual Handling, clinical equipment competency, risk management, Data Protection Acts and patient confidentiality at all times. This will include demonstrating compliance with the terms of all safeguarding policies and processes relevant to the safeguarding of adults and children in the care of GHNHSFT and to undergo regular mandatory training concerned with safeguarding matters.
- Report near misses and untoward incidents, complaints, clinical emergencies, injury or medicine administration errors as detailed in the departmental and Trust protocols. Assist lead staff in investigating incidents as required.
- Ensure a smart, professional image that enhances the public perception of the Trust and the professionalism of its staff is portrayed.
Education and training
- Demonstrate a commitment to research-based practice and clinical educational excellence in all service provision
- Support research-based change to improve patient centred care
- Remain up-to-date and a strong positive role model in all mandatory training and appraisal reviews as required for self and the team
Improving quality and developing practice
- Comply with requirements to register with the NMC and identify own learning needs and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.
- Regularly review education and training delivered to ensure it remains relevant, innovative and underpinned with research in support of our Trusts aspirations to achieve an Outstanding CQC rating and excellence in education as a University Hospital.
- Actively promote the Gloucestershire Quality and Service Improvement Academy throughout the Clinical Skills / Professional Education Team at Bronze, Silver or Gold levels
- Introduce innovative ways of working to the service that incorporate digital technologies; this with a view to streamlining, simplifying, achieving cost-efficiencies or making the learning process more enjoyable and effective for our workforce.
- Write, maintain and ensure implementation of relevant policies/protocols/ guidelines relevant to the education, learning and development.
- Identify own development needs, aligning these to service requirements and personal aspirations. Proactively develop and improve own practice using all available resources
- Openly question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with an active NMC pin.
- Evidence of a recognised practice assessor/ supervisor qualification (PG Cert, ENB 998/ Teaching & Assessing in Practice / FLAP / FLIP, PA/PS Training) with evidence of contribution to the development of clinical practice, education and training based on knowledge acquired.
