Skills Coach- Flexible Remote Working

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Training Specialist to cover the London area. The Clinical Training Specialist (CTS) role is a “Training and Education expert” in Home Therapies. The CTS partners with referring units to teach patients and healthcare professionals best practice in Peritoneal Dialysis (PD). The CTS works to fulfil the demand for patient training to ensure that patients are expertly and appropriately trained on Vantive’s therapies in order to optimise outcomes and to minimize avoidable technique failures. The CTS role works in alignment with the renal commercial team to identify and support units with healthcare professional education and upskilling on peritoneal dialysis therapy and devices. This role is in the field primarily based in an allocated region and Education Centre EC, CTSs and other field-based CTSs the role needs to be flexibility to meet the demand for patient and staff training. The focus will be on small group training in the community, EC or NHS trust sites of patients and or healthcare professionals, with some need for face-to-face training in patients’ homes. Teach and empower patients in self-management of PD by providing high quality evidence-based patient training to patients following referral from NHS hospitals at EC, in the patient’s own home or hospital as required. Educate, advise, and train healthcare professionals on best practice patient training methods for PD, adopting a train the trainer approach where needed, to maintain and develop skills in the referring hospitals. Work closely with teaching hospitals to allow the center to be used as an education environment for observation of training particularly Renal Course nurses and new to PD nurses. Complete high quality training records, document training provided and feedback to hospital staff. Provide innovative refresher and follow-up training support for patients. Support internal training initiatives as subject matter experts to drive clinical excellence amongst the Baxter commercial teams. Support the EC Managers in maintaining Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulations and be inspection ready. Regular auditing to monitor the quality of our education service any concerns and complaints to ensure continuous improvement. Participate in governance processes identifying learning opportunities. Support the PD knowledge and development of NHS staff and provide educational sessions on basic skills either face to face or remotely. Provide a flexible responsive training resource that can be utilized in NHS trusts. Provide high quality patient training via a remote platform should the patient need this service. Currently listed on NMC register (Adult) (Essential) Computer literacy skills – Office 365 (Essential) Demonstrate strong teaching and communication skills, both written and verbal, to support training and education services with patients and customers (internal and external) (Essential) Flexible approach to problem solving (Essential) Driving License (Essential) A knowledge of dialysis systems and processes (Advantage) Customer relationship building skills (Advantage)