Practice Educator

Location: Robin House, Balloch, West Dunbartonshire

Salary: £40,800 - £49,088 per annum, pro rata (unsocial hours premia added 6%)

Contract Type: Temporary 2 year fixed term contract, Full time 37.5 hours per week

Closing Date: 16 June 2025 

In this exciting new role, you will make a meaningful difference from day one. 

Our nursing teams are aiming to be the best in what they do, delivering palliative and end of life care to children and young people who may die young across Scotland.

After listening to our nursing teams, we heard the best way we can help them achieve their goals is to grow our support for their education and training and create an environment where they can consolidate their learning to be both competent and confident in their skills.  

This role has been created in response to what our nursing teams have told us will make a difference to them and the care they deliver. So, you really will make a meaningful difference from day one.

This role will be based in the nursing teams in Rachel and Robin House and will support the nursing teams in the Houses and in the CHAS at Home teams throughout Scotland. Working alongside others who also support learning and development of our nursing teams both in CHAS and out with will be key to your success in this role. 

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have the following-

• A passion to make a difference and share your knowledge and expertise
• You will be a Registered Nurse / RN (Child) degree level. Master’s level education will be an advantage.
• Direct care experience of delivering palliative and end of life care
• Evidence of competence in the clinical skills relevant to palliative and end of life care delivery in CHAS.
• Experience of delivering training to others in a variety of setting
• Quality improvement methodology underpinning your practice.

What you will do

• Work directly with our nursing teams to lead and positively influence the learning experience of clinical skills across CHAS.
• Work flexibly to meet the needs of the team members, including weekend, evenings and night duties if required. Hybrid working can be negotiated for this role.
• Provide leadership in creating a framework for clinical care skills and competencies across the nursing care teams.
• Work collaboratively and flexibly with others that also support the learning and development of our nursing teams
• Our Quality and Care Assurance Team
• Our organisational wide Learning and Organisational Development team
• Our Advanced Nurse Practitioner team
• HEI and NHS partner organisations.
• Develop your skills as a clinical supervisor providing supervision to designated team groups.
• Measure improvement and outcomes to ensure robust evaluation of the post at end of year 2.

About CHAS

In CHAS we provide unwavering care to children, young people who may die young, and support their families. We are understandably proud of what we do but want to continue to improve.

Last year we had 800 admissions to our 2 Houses with 3204 bed nights. Our CHAS at Home teams undertook 1950 visits providing 6400 hours of care in the community and in hospital settings. These numbers will continue to grow as we meet our strategic aim of reaching more children, young people and families in every part of Scotland.

Why CHAS?

Working with CHAS provides a unique opportunity to support children and families to make the most of their precious time together; as a team, we make extraordinary things happen every day.

Our children’s palliative care nurses report great satisfaction in having the time to provide high quality nursing care in a supportive team with exciting career development opportunities.

Some of the benefits you can expect to receive from working with CHAS:

• The opportunity to continue to pay into an existing NHS scheme or membership of local government pension scheme
• Salary increments scale comparable to NHS pay scales – with annual salary reviews reflecting on NHS pay awards.
• Enhanced pay for unsocial hours and overtime
• Pay matched to closest current increment with NHS
• Generous annual leave entitlement (matched to current length of service with NHS up to a maximum of 40 days)
• Ability to provide 1:1 nursing care in a more relaxed and homely environment
• Opportunities for further learning and development
• Access to a range of tools to support wellbeing
• The opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team which includes volunteers
• Free on-site parking

Further Information and How to Apply

If this sounds like you, we would love you to apply! Follow the link to answer a couple of questions and upload your CV or complete our full application form.

Further information about the role and benefits of working for CHAS can be found in the attached documents.

To arrange an informal chat about the position and request a visit to either site, please contact

Karen Williamson, Associate Nurse Director – Hospice Care – [email protected]

Or

Nicky Bridges, Associate Director – Outreach services – [email protected]

For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our HR Team on 0131 444 3293 or by emailing [email protected].

This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.

Provisional interview date of Thursday 26th June, 2025.