Clinical Nurse Educator

Do you have a passion for clinical education and developing your teaching skills? Are you interested in influencing the development of our new doctors? A 6 month fixed term opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Educator (AFC: Band 6) in Old Age Psychiatry at Kingsway site. The Derby Psychiatry Teaching Unit (PTU) provides clinical placements to 4th year medical students from the University of Nottingham who are completing their psychiatry module in Derby. Our ethos is to provide excellence, compassion and experiential learning in Medical Education. To do this we have developed a number of innovative interactive teaching approaches to help engage students and better develop their skills in working with people experiencing mental ill health.

You will be directly involved in teaching Undergraduate Medical students all aspects of Old Age Psychiatry. There is a particular emphasis in utilising Lived Experience in medical education and part of your role will be to participate in this. We are currently seeking someone skilled and experienced to cover long term sickness; however, there may be a possibility that the post could become permanent in the future. As such, we are seeking mental health nurses with a minimum of 3 years post registration experience. Applicants must be enthusiastic, motivated and interested in developing face to face bedside teaching with service receivers and carers, ensuring that respect and consideration for the needs of both students and service receivers is prioritised. The role may involve pastoral support for students, as they often experience triggering due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter discussed or witnessing distressing incidents.

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of making a positive difference in people's lives. CQC rated us as 'GOOD overall, commenting on how our colleagues treated patients with compassion and kindness and felt positive and proud about working for the trust.

Benefits:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme
• 24/7 Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Main Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with patients and carers, clinical areas and the Psychiatry Teaching Unit (PTU) to develop and facilitate medical student training within clinical environments
• Participate in the delivery of the Lived Experience programme, including Expert Patient sessions with students as well as Lived Experience Facilitators in the delivery of formal teaching
• Develop and facilitate bed-side teaching opportunities to enable students to practice clinical skills, including conducting mental state examinations, history taking, risk assessment, and interventions utilised in the support and treatment of mental health illnesses within the clinical environment
• Participate (after training) in the delivery of multi-media clinical teaching material
• Induct students onto the ward and other clinical areas
• Facilitate medical student involvement in clinical reviews with patient and carers in care teams
• Provide support, supervision and mentorship to the medical students
• Contribute to the preparation and coordination of timetables for individual medical students
• Evaluate effectiveness of teaching through reviewing feedback from students, staff, patients and carers, audits, and research
• Participate in developing improvement plans to the quality of teaching
• Work with simulated patients/professional role players to develop and provide alternative experiential learning opportunities
• Represent the clinical teaching team at appropriate Trust and external meetings

Key Responsibilities (continued):

• The post holder will work across clinical areas to maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of clinical developments in mental health.
• They will facilitate the input of users and carers in medical education both in being part of delivering this but also in developing the curriculum.
• They will foster a learning culture within clinical areas that promotes inclusion, enables independence, and enhances the autonomy of the service user.
• They will be proactive in initiating and sustaining a respectful and consistent relationship with service users, carers and other professionals in advancing the cause of delivering high quality medical student education.
• They will provide multidisciplinary input to the central teaching modules and would work with the Clinical Teaching Fellows to improve the evaluation and feedback provided to medical students.
• Psychiatry can be an emotionally challenging placement for students. The post holder will maintain an awareness of support available, how to access this, and be able to facilitate and support students who may need to access ongoing support.
• They will ensure the deanery is aware of concerns.
• In collaboration with the Medical School, address concerns relating to students attitudes, behaviour, including attendance, and report concerns to the medical school.
• As a registered practitioner they are personally accountable for their professional practice and have a legal/professional responsibility to service users, colleagues, employers and self and to follow guidelines for professional practice as per NMC.