Critical Care and Critical Care Outreach Team Education Lead

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Critical Care and Critical Care Outreach Team Education Lead

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Working with a vision of "delivering excellence in all everything we do", the post holder will be based within Adult Critical Care/ CCOT and will be expected to work flexibly across campuses as required.

The post holder will be a proactive role model who provides comprehensive leadership on the provision of clinical education and assessment of competence in Adult Critical Care and CCOT.

The role will entail working with key stakeholders across the organisation and wider health care community to ensure that best practice, educational standards, appropriate curriculum development and relevant teaching techniques are in place.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• To lead the development of all Adult Critical Care and CCOT staff, and foster empowerment through knowledge to achieve excellence through the delivery of evidenced based nursing practice.
• To oversee the coordination and orientation of new staff/starter to the organisation and Adult Critical Care/ CCOT.
• To promote reflective practice, clinical supervision and experiential learning opportunities developing learning culture in the clinical environment.
• Demonstrate the use of evidence based specialist skills and practice in the care of critically ill ward based patients.
• Support staff rotating through Adult Critical Care and CCOT - including staff from Maternity and ED.

Managerial

• To ensure the delivery of care is in accordance with the policies, procedures, guidelines and practices of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
• To manage the Educators to ensure individuals' personal and development needs are met.
• 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.
• To ensure the Education team maintain the mandatory training database.

About us

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest in the UK and has the Major Trauma Centre for the East Midlands. It has one of the busiest emergency departments in the UK and is a major teaching Trust, NUH enjoys close links with the city's universities and attracts and develops the highest calibre of staff. It continues to be the hospital of choice for patients and remains at the forefront of research. NUH is currently looking to be internationally recognised through Magnet status. The Critical Care service at the Queens Medical Centre Campus encompasses 29 Level 3 beds on Adult Intensive Care and 20 Level 2 beds on High Dependency. Critical Care at the City Campus consists of a combined unit with 17 beds.

The Clinical Support Division would especially welcome applications from BAME colleagues who are currently underrepresented at this level.

Job responsibilities

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

In addition to the key job responsibilities detailed in this job description all employees at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust are expected to comply with the general duties detailed below:

Infection Control

To maintain a clean, safe environment, ensuring adherence to the Trust's standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control. The post holder is accountable for minimising the risks of infections and for the implementation of the Code of Practice for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare Associated Infections as outlined in the Health Act 2006. This includes receiving assurance of risk and embedding evidence based practice into daily routines of all staff.

Safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults

Nottingham University Hospitals is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff and volunteers are therefore expected to behave in such a way that supports this commitment.

Information Governance

All staff have an individual responsibility for creating accurate records of their work and for making entries into and managing all NHS records effectively in line with the Health Record Keeping Policy and other Health Records and Corporate Records Management policies and procedures in order to meet the Trust's legal, regulatory and accountability requirements.

Health and Safety

• To take reasonable care to prevent injury to themselves or others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
• To co-operate fully in discharging the Trust policies and procedures with regard to health and safety matters.
• To immediately report to their manager any shortcomings in health and safety procedures and practice.
• To report any accidents or dangerous incidents to their immediate manager and safety representative as early as possible and submit a completed accident/incident form.
• To use protective clothing and equipment where provided.
• Whilst the aim of the Trust is to promote a co-operative and constructive view of health and safety concerns in the organisation, all staff must be aware that a wilful or irresponsible disregard for safety matters may give rise to disciplinary proceedings.

Governance

• To actively participate in governance activities to ensure that the highest standards of care and business conduct are achieved.

Health and Wellbeing

Employees are expected to take all reasonable steps to look after both their physical health and mental health. To support employees to achieve this NUH offers a wide range of health and wellbeing activities and interventions. The full programme can be viewed at on the staff intranet.

Line managers are expected to encourage and support staff to look after their health and wellbeing, including the release of staff to attend health and wellbeing activities and interventions.

General Policies Procedures and Practices

To comply with all Trust policies, procedures and practices and to be responsible for keeping up to date with any changes to these.

WORKING CONDITIONS

The post holder must be able to:

• work within unpleasant clinical working conditions (for example exposure to body fluids).
• concentrate in an intense and sometimes noisy environment.
• cope with potentially violent and threatening situations.
• work with the critical care outreach team in ward environments across the Trust.
• work on any of the Adult Critical Care units as required.
• fulfil Trust health and safety policies and procedures when performing risk associated procedures including dealing with hazardous substances.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Current level one NMC registration.
• Relevant post-basic qualification in Critical Care specialist pathway (ENB 100 or equivalent).
• Evidence of academic learning at Level 3 or equivalent.
• Introductory management course.
• Possession of NMC Mentoring Course.
• Degree in health/nursing related studies or equivalent level of study.
• Masters in health/nursing related studies.
• Formal leadership and management training/course.

Experience

• Evidence of Critical Care knowledge and clinical practice.
• Evidence of leadership, management & time management skills.
• Evidence of education role at Band 6.
• Evidence of appropriate delegation, support and supervision of all staff.
• Evidence of involvement in project work.
• Evidence of audit/research work within the clinical area.
• Evidence of effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Evidence of minimising interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication.
• Evidence of staff appraisal & performance management of staff.
• Evidence of devising professional development & action plans.

Analytical skills

• Evidence of an understanding of the Education Lead role in Critical Care.
• Evidence of responding to problem situations and associated effective interventions put in place.
• Evidence of knowledge of current issues related to the NHS policies.

Planning and organisation

• Evidence of use of the development, implementation and monitoring of local action plans to improve practice.
• Evidence of use of the development, implementation and monitoring of local action plans to meet objectives.
• Evidence of additional responsibilities (e.g. Trust/Corporate member, National forum, Benchmarking).
• Evidence of effective resource management.

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts