Practice Education Facilitator

We are delighted to offer the opportunity to join us as Practice Education Facilitator with the Northern Care Alliance.

In conjunction with the PEF team, the post holder will be responsible for supporting the provision of high-quality multi-professional learning environments within The Northern Care Alliance.

The successful candidate will be required to work locally within services where inter-professional learning opportunities can be promoted and support increase in placement experience and capacity.

The post holder will be required to support the breadth of the student experience, which may require cross-boundary working, and contribute to the delivery of the new standards to support learning in practice.

This PEF role will predominantly be supporting learners based at Salford Care Organisation.

Responsibilities include:

1. Assessing the quality of practice learning environments; ensuring all service areas/placement providers have up-to-date action plans in place to contribute to the annual quality monitoring of Learning and Development Agreements.
2. Supporting the development and ensuring a sufficient provision of practice supervisors/assessors across relevant service areas, providing supervision and support structures, building education in practice capability, consistency, and efficiency.
3. Contributing to the structuring and coordinating inter-professional learning activity across service area(s).
4. Participating in Quality Assurance Multi-Professional site visits across organisations.
5. Working with the PEF team to ensure an adequate breadth, scope, and number of placement experiences.
6. Developing and maintaining links with Education Providers to practice supervisors/assessors in practice to increase placement experience and increase student capacity.
7. Acting as an exemplary role model for students, exhibiting the expected Trust values & behaviours.

Please refer to JD for full details.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust, we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us, you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kelly Clarke Job title: Lead PEF Email address: Kelly.Clarke@nca.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07816109980
Ruth.Bleackley@nca.nhs.uk