End of Life Care Clinical Educator

An opportunity to join an established, dynamic End of Life Care Team delivering a comprehensive education programme to meet the needs of our healthcare workforce. Acting as an educational resource, mentor and role-model, working alongside our clinical teams. Providing professional leadership advice and support, fostering a learning culture which values high quality patient care.

Main duties of the job:

• Delivery of Palliative and EOLC training and education through a variety of methods including formal presentations to large groups of staff.
• Excellent communication skills are essential, making use of all available methods of communication to build and develop effective communication networks and processes both within the specialist area, the Trust and external organisations.
• Supporting the implementation of change and the development of the service within the specialist area of practice, leading staff and facilitating the change process whilst encouraging others to be innovative and adaptable in their approach to change.
• Auditing of EOLC initiatives at a local and national level.
• Working in collaboration with other key stakeholders including internal and external clinical educators, the ICB, community healthcare team and hospice development team in ongoing development of local strategy.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
• Ongoing support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Person specification:

• Experience: Experience of mentoring/supervising learners, demonstrable post registration clinical experience in end-of-life care, evidence of the ability to work on own initiative and prioritise own workload, attended Advanced Communication Skills Training, experience of delivering teaching sessions to a variety of audiences in different environments, experience and understanding of using audit and research to influence practice, experience of implementing change in practice through the provision of training, education and staff engagement.
• Qualification: Registered Nurse / AHP with substantial post registration experience in relevant clinical area, including delivery of palliative and end of life care, IT literate with experience of using Microsoft Office programmes, MS Teams and the use of EPR systems, Teaching Qualification or working towards.
• Competence: IT literate with experience of using Microsoft Office programmes, MS Teams and interactive teaching software.

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.