Clinical Practice Facilitator (Pre-registration Nursing)

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Job description

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

About

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, providing high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank, and contractors.

Our hospitals provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. Over the last year, our emergency performance has been among the strongest in London, despite our emergency departments being among the busiest in the capital.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich regularly achieves the fastest ambulance turnaround times in London. The critical care unit at the hospital is one of the few in the country to meet the gold standard for consultant and junior doctor staffing.

University Hospital Lewisham has the largest stroke rehabilitation centre in the country, and the third largest specialist centre in the UK for treating blood conditions such as sickle cell. The hospital is one of the few in the country to offer opt-out HIV testing in the emergency department, ensuring that any patient who has a blood test is routinely screened for HIV.

The Trust’s community services for children and adults in Lewisham are rated “Outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.

The Trust 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.

Key details

Location

Site: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address: Lewisham High Street
Town: Lewisham
Postcode: SE13 6LH
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

• Full time
• Job share

Salary

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: Band 7

Specialty

Main area: Clinical Practice Facilitator

Job overview

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) are excited to be recruiting to the post of Band 7 Clinical Practice Facilitator (CPF). The successful applicant will be responsible for the management of the site-based Band 6 (Adult) CPF posts and three distinct work streams focusing on improving the learner pathway within:

· Community services
· Paediatrics
· Return to Practice programme

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The Clinical Practice Facilitator (CPF) will be an expert in all matters relating to pre and post-registration programmes leading to NMC registration. This post provides a great opportunity to develop both management and leadership skills whilst acquiring a broader understanding of how the NMC’s Standards are applied within training programmes both within universities and clinical settings.

The Pre-registration Clinical Practice Facilitator team are responsible for:

• Maintaining a high visibility within clinical practice settings
• Supporting learners and their practice supervisors / assessors
• Ensuring clinical learning environments support the acquisition of required knowledge and skills
• Partnership working with local HEIs
• Facilitating training; Trust inductions, skills sessions, SSSA preparation

The successful candidate will be a highly visible role model for clinical education, an expert practitioner, and change agent. They will promote quality learning environments in all areas of our services and be the lead CPF for Community, Paediatrics, and Return to Practice; providing practical, clinical training and support to learners and their practice supervisors / assessors.

Partnership working is a key component to this post and the successful candidate will work collaboratively to develop relationships and networks within nursing teams, local Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), and Partner Organisations. They will be responsible for maintaining this relationship and are the bridge from practice back to theory through: supporting the facilitation of skills sessions at the HEIs; representing the Trust at meetings; involvement with interviews at the HEIs; encouraging and facilitating colleagues’ involvement with HEI activities and regularly liaising with the link lecturers.

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 cultivating 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

The successful applicant will join and be supported by the Pre-registration Education Lead, fellow Clinical Practice Facilitators across Midwifery and Nursing, and the wider Education Team within the Trust. There will be joint working on areas such as: learner capacity in the clinical environment, Educational audits, and embedding the NMC Standards for Education; a shared approach to the ongoing preparation and support of practice supervisors / assessors; and a collaborative approach to creating career pathways.

As a successful candidate, you will be supported through in-house training and offered professional development to enable you to facilitate change, to implement innovations and improvements for service users, their families / carers, and staff.

Please read the Personal and Job specifications carefully. You should provide evidence in your application of the essential qualities required and why you would be an asset to our team. Invites to interview will be sent to the e-mail address you provide on your application.

Interview dates: TBC

Please be aware of dates as we are unable to offer alternate arrangements.

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.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse / Midwife / AHP
• BSc level study
• Practice Assessor / Mentorship course or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Undertaken formal management / leadership training

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of study at Masters level
• Practice Teacher / teaching qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum 2 years of Band 6 in clinical services across a number of roles
• Active as a student Practice Assessor or equivalent experience of capability managing
• Proven track record in line managing people with clearly defined leadership skills
• Ability to demonstrate effective communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to establish partnerships and foster good working relationships
• Experience facilitating and delivering training sessions
• Demonstrates computer literacy e.g. Microsoft packages, email, electronic patient records and electronic rostering
• High level organisational skills and prioritisation of the workload
• Sound knowledge and experience of initiating, evaluating, and sustaining change
• Ability to initiate, evaluate and sustain change

Desirable criteria

• Experience in recruitment and selection
• Experience of challenging poor practice
• Clinical audit and service evaluation experience
• Experience of managing and responding to complaints
• Involvement in curriculum planning and validation with HEIs

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Sound knowledge of clinical practice
• Sound knowledge of healthcare education
• Knowledge relating to placement: Identification; Capacity; Educational audit
• Knowledge of 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 facilitating simulation for teaching of clinical skills

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Commitment to the education and development of learners
• Commitment to own personal development
• Have a non-judgemental attitude
• Commitment to the provision of a quality service
• Ability to work flexibly across the hospital, community, and HEI settings

Desirable criteria

• Car driver

Documents

• Job description (328.3) PDF KB
• Working at LGT (4.2) PDF MB

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Vikki Coleman
Job title: Pre-Registration Education Lead
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 020 8836 4409