Clinical Educator Nottingham

Job summary

Working with a vision of "delivering excellence in all everything we do", the post holder will be based within the department of clinical Haematology. The post holder will be an enthusiastic, proactive role model who leads in the clinical environment on the provision of clinical education and assessment of competence within the Clinical Haematology department. The successful candidate will be passionate about patient care, staff support and education. They will be an experienced Haematology nurse and strong team player, with extensive knowledge about the speciality. The post holder will;work alongside nurses and other healthcare practitioners to ensure the provision of high quality safe and effective evidence-based care; in accordance with local, divisional and hospital policies and procedures.Assist in identifying and defining areas for improvement and develop targeted teaching and learning activities to facilitate improvement.Develop and deliver training and educational programmes and optimise learning activities for practitioners ensure that the organisation has an accurate record of a pract i tioner’s learning.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary, you will need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.

Clinical

To support the development of staff, and foster empowerment through knowledge to achieve excellence through the delivery of evidenced based nursing practice.To coordinate orientation of new staff.To promote reflective practice, clinical supervision and experiential learning opportunities developing a learning culture in the clinical environment.To contribute towards the development and maintenance of clinical staff competence in the use of medical equipment in the clinical area, in order to comply with the Trust's health and safety policy.To be a visible role model to ensure that the dignity, rights and confidentiality of the patient and individual team members are protected and maintained in accordance with national standards and guidelines.

About us

Patients - We will ensure our patients receive consistently high quality, safe care with outstanding outcomes and experiencePeople - We will build on our position as an employer of choice; with an engaged, developed and empowered team that puts patient care at the heart of everything it doesPlaces - We will invest in our estate, equipment and digital infrastructure to support the delivery of high quality patient carePerformance - We will consistently achieve our performance standards and make the best use of resources to contribute to an affordable healthcare systemPartners - We will support the improvement of the health of the communities we serve through strong system leadership and innovative partnerships to deliver integrated models of carePotential - We will deliver world-class research and education and transform health through innovation.

Job responsibilities

To ensure the delivery of care is in accordance with the policies, procedures, guidelines and practices of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustTo liaise with appropriate line manager / senior staff to ensure individuals personal and development needs are used to inform planning of education and training. To ensure line managers and senior staff are kept informed of progress.To assist with annual training needs analysis.To ensure that continuing professional development is provided for all staff, including students and elective placements, so that the required level of knowledge and competence is maintained / achieved.In conjunction with other educator and Line managers ensure mandatory training database is accurate and maintained, escalating in a timely manner any concerns or issues.To assist in the development of a planned programme of attendance of mandatory training, team days and the haematology study days.To assist staff to complete Competency packages and ensure up to date records are maintained in staff files and on training database.To assist Educational Lead with Educational Audits as required.To organise Haematology Educational Programmes to provide the opportunity for staff to develop their skills in A-E assessment and essential Haematology skills etc. To contribute to the monitoring and control of expenditure and the use of resources.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• Current level one NMC registration
• Have a suitable Teaching & Assessing Qualification Possession of a Mentoring Course or equivalent
• Haematology experience
• Chemo SACT Trained
• Completion of local competency packages-venepuncture, cannulation, PICC line and ECG trained

Desirable

• Continuing professional development/ reflective profile
• Completion of all local competency packages. Research training/experience
• Post graduate certificate of education
• Leadership and Management ECDL
• Degree in health / nursing related Studies

Experience

Essential

• Significant level of post registration within Haematology
• Supervision of non-registered staff, pre-registration and supervision of new staff
• Evidence of ability to mentor
• Ability to lead change and lead new ways of working
• Working knowledge of relevant healthcare standards and best practices, including WINW and competency documents
• Evidence of additional responsibility/activity in a link/champion role within Haematology

Desirable

• Audit or research within the clinical area
• Formal teaching of groups of staff
• Previous Band 6 experience, including team management, appraisal, objective setting and personal review process
• Previous experience of competency-based training, planning and delivery
• Evidence of additional responsibility i.e. project work
• Presentation at conference

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).