Clinical Skills Facilitator in Canterbury

Pilgrims Hospices are looking for an experienced, friendly and reliable Clinical Skills Facilitator to join our team. The main purpose of this role is to enhance the quality of patient care by developing the clinical competence, confidence and capability of staff across Pilgrims Hospices.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Clinical Quality and Education Lead, supporting the design, delivery and evaluation of education, training and competency programmes, ensuring learning is translated into day-to-day clinical practice. The post holder will maintain a visible presence within clinical services and spend a minimum of two days each month working directly alongside clinical teams, providing coaching, competency assessment, clinical support and practice development.

Key responsibilities:

• Work directly with clinical teams to identify learning needs, support professional development and promote best practice.
• Support the development, implementation and review of clinical competency frameworks and associated assessment processes.
• Undertake competency assessments and contribute to competency sign-off processes in accordance with organisational requirements.
• Support managers in providing assurance that staff have achieved and maintained required competencies through assessment, review and ongoing development activities.
• Actively support both registered and unregistered staff in the clinical environment to develop confidence, competence and professional judgement in the delivery of palliative and end of life care.
• Work alongside staff in practice to support the application of learning to patient care and service delivery.
• Support the induction, development and ongoing education of clinical staff and volunteers.

The role is 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, based in Canterbury (expected to travel regularly to other sites).

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent. Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

• Compassionate: We treat everyone with compassion and care.
• Open: We communicate openly, honestly and effectively.
• Dynamic: We are dynamic, improving and developing our service.
• Empowered: We empower people to achieve their outcomes.

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority. Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

• Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments.
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning.
• Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme.
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause.
• A sense of wellbeing.
• A good work-life balance.
• Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links.
• NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card.
• Cycle to Work Schemes.
• Free hospice parking.

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.