Clinical Nurse Educator- Emergency Departments, Band 6

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About

Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.

As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.

As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.

By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.

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Key details

Location

SiteTrustwide (Gloucester Royal Hospital & Cheltenham General Hospital)TownGloucestershirePostcodeGL1 3NNMajor / Minor RegionGloucestershire

Contract type & working pattern

ContractPermanentHours37.5 hours per week

• Full time

Part time

Salary

Salary£37,338 - £44,962 (pa pro rata if part-time)Salary periodYearlyGrade(Band 6)

Specialty

Main areaEmergency Departments

Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.

As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.

As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.

By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.

Job Overview

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 (SNAs), pre-registration nurses and future Nursing Associates/Registered Nurses.

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Skills

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.

Working for our organisation

I am delighted you are interested in the Medicine Division Clinical Nurse Educator 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.

Detailed Job Description And Main 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.

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.

The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.

Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.

Committed to safeguarding our community

If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary. Please contact [email protected] for further information.

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Applicant requirements

warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 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.
  
  

Experience/Skill

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in an acute clinical environment within unscheduled care supervising, assessing, coaching, supporting and teaching others.
• Triage Training
• Immediate Life Support
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in healthcare education.
• Advanced Life Support
• Paediatric Life Support
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates ability to question and challenge clinical and education practice in a constructive way so that standards are continually evaluated and improved.
• Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice in conjunction with the wider team.

Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload and be able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate

Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.

Documents

• ED PD Nurse Job Description and Person Specification (, 856.3)PDFKB
• About Gloucestershire Hospitals (, 187.2)PDFKB
• Discounts and Benefits (, 158.3)PDFKB
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

NameBethany NuttJob titleLead Clinical EducatorEmail address [email protected]Telephone number0300 422 8248

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