Occupational Therapy Learning Facilitator

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000

Job description

Occupational Therapy Learning Facilitator

Band 6

Main area: Occupational Therapy Grade Band 6

Contract: 12 months (Fixed term for 1 year)

Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week (Post holder will be required to work occasional weekends)

Job ref: 153-SP04125

Department name: UHD - General Recruitment Site Bournemouth Hospital

Town: Bournemouth

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/02/2025 23:59

As University Hospitals Dorset, we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.

We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.

We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.

Job overview

We are excited to offer a position for an Acute Inpatient Therapy Practice Facilitator in Occupational Therapy, to work across our therapy department. We expect this post to support the clinical development of staff within the acute inpatient therapy teams and to provide training and clinical experience to those in the wider therapy teams. This post will work in partnership within our workforce team to support pre-registration learners, promote safe learning environments, and bring practice educators together. This post is an opportunity to develop your own non-clinical skills across the pillars of practice, and work with a variety of people. If you are interested in practice education, facilitating the development of others and working proactively and collaboratively, we welcome your application.

Base - Bournemouth Hospital

Interview Date - 10 February 2025

Main duties of the job

• Work within the acute inpatient therapy teams to support the development of learners, therapy assistants, junior therapy staff, including at weekends and during evenings.
• Maintain and develop the respiratory online training to complement in practice education.
• Provide training and development opportunities to upskill and maintain senior staff both within inpatient therapies and across the therapy department, for clinical and non-clinical pillars of practice.
• Support the co-ordination of learner placements, the development of the safe learning environment charter in practice, and the BEAT Education and Training Toolkit.
• Support the oversight of the Learning Needs Analysis, and identify appropriate opportunities.
• Facilitate the provision of widening participation within Occupational Therapy.
• Develop training and support internationally recruited Occupational Therapists.
• Lead apprentice recruitment processes.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of supporting and managing learners in practice.
• Experience of managing student placements.
• Experience of teaching small and large groups.
• Experience of supporting staff to implement change.
• Experience of managing placement capacity.
• Experience of utilising different models of placement provision for learners.
• Experience of coaching.
• Experience in difficult conversations.
• Experience of apprenticeship roles.
• Experience of deputising for a manager or line management.
• Experience of management of stakeholders in wider team or outside of organisation.

Other role requirements

• Ability to work across UHD sites.

Qualifications

• Leadership Development.
• Coaching qualification.
• Further Evidence of Education at Level 6 or 7.
• Teaching qualifications.

Technical Skills and Competencies

• Experience of occupational therapy practice in inpatients settings.
• Excellent organisation and time management.
• Effective leadership skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team and inter-professionally.
• Competent with Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.
• Ability to teach and facilitate learning in a variety of settings with different learners.
• Ability to write evidence-based reports.
• Experience with supporting students from local HEIs.

Knowledge

• Excellent working knowledge of the HCPC standards of proficiency including code of conduct and standards of proficiency.
• Working knowledge of Student supervision and assessment and coaching techniques.
• Working knowledge of learning theories and approaches.
• Debriefing knowledge and skills.
• Working knowledge of NHS Constitution.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Ability to engage and build effective relationships at all levels.
• Ability to present to a large group of people.
• Consistently high attention to detail and quality of work.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative.
• Ability to work flexibly and manage competing priorities.
• Enthusiasm and passion for teaching and developing others.
• Ability to supervise learners and those supporting learning using a coaching approach.
• Ability to meet different learning styles and preferences.

Language requirements

• Able to speak English as necessary to undertake this role.

Please note: Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.

This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

Employer certification / accreditation badges: 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.

Name: Amanda Weaver

Job title: Lead Practice Educator

Email address: [e-mail]