Clinical Practice Facilitator (Pre-registration Nursing)

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

As a member of the Corporate Nursing Team, you will work closely with colleagues to support a range of professionals and learner groups, with a key focus on developing and maintaining quality learning environments within the Trust. Your role is key to ensuring learners are fit for purpose at the point of registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

This role will primarily be site based (although some cross site cover may be required) and the focus will be working with individuals undertaking a pre-registration Nursing programme within an Adult acute setting.

Your role is to: support the learner journey by participating in the HEI recruitment process; work in partnership to ensure a quality supportive learning environment; ensure consistent support and guidance is available within clinical settings that enables learners to meet the NMC requirement to become a professional registrant and remain in the Trust on qualification. You will work in clinical practice alongside learners and their practice supervisors / assessor in order to support and ensure robust assessment and appropriate attrition.

Main duties of the job

You will participate in joint working with external key stakeholders such as the Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) and local partners in meeting national guidance and recommendations from Health Education England (HEE), the NMC, NHS Improvement and the Integrated Care Systems (ICS) to support the learner journey, including the mapping of placements / placement pathways, and academic study. Reporting data as required on key performance indicators set by the Trust and national bodies.

You will work in association with Clinical Practice Facilitator (CPF) and HEI colleagues to:

1. Maintain an accurate record of practice supervisors / assessors
2. Facilitate and deliver training for practice supervisors / assessors / clinical areas
3. Maintain Practice Learning Environment Audits
4. Map placements
5. Identify learning opportunities to enrich the learner experience

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To organise the educational activities of individual pre and post registration learners, by working collaboratively with the HEI to promote evidenced based learning in the development of practice, encompassing local and national service objectives.

To participate in curriculum planning and NMC validation events with HEIs.

To work in partnership with the Trust and HEI(s) to identify, audit and assess areas that facilitate learning.

To sustain effective channels of communication between HEI's and Trust staff.

To create practice-based opportunities for learning, assisting learners to make the connection between theory and practice.

To ensure records of attendance at pre-registration learning opportunities within the Trust are maintained.

To provide a safe and effective clinical learning environment across clinical placements, extending this to facilitation of placements for external requests (Partnership organisations or individuals) where able and appropriate.

To provide clinical and professional advice relating to pre-registration learners. Ensuring local placement issues are identified, communicated and resolved in a timely manner.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse / Midwife / AHP
• Practice Assessor / Mentorship course or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of study at Masters Level
• Practice Teacher / teaching qualification
• Evidence of formal management / leadership training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum three years of Band 5 in clinical services across a number of roles (broad clinical experience)
• Demonstrates experience of supporting learners in practice as a Practice Assessor or equivalent
• Experience of facilitating and delivering training sessions

Desirable criteria

• Experience in recruitment and selection
• Experience of challenging poor practice
• Clinical audit and service evaluation experience
• Experience of participating in additional activities relating to learners' experience
• Involvement in curriculum planning and validation with HEIs

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Sound knowledge of clinical practice
• Knowledge of healthcare education
• Knowledge relating to placements: Identification, Capacity and Educational audit
• NMC Standards for Education
• Excellent theoretical knowledge with the ability to apply theory to practice

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of NMC Quality assurance processes relating to education
• NMC Fitness to Practice processes
• Involvement in simulation for teaching of clinical skills

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Commitment to the education and development of learners
• Commitment to the education and development of learners

Desirable criteria

• Car driver

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 324.0KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)