Regional Practice Education Facilitator - Primary Care (North Wales)

NHS; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

Regional Practice Education Facilitator - Primary Care (North Wales)

We currently have an exciting vacancy for a Regional Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) to work across primary care services in North Wales. The role is advertised as a full-time (37.5 hours) Band 7 secondment opportunity until 31.03.26, due to funding.

The post is open to registered nurses with a background in education or training in a clinical practice environment. Post holders work with the HEIW Head of Placement Experience and Improvement and HEIW Primary and Community Care Education & Training Team to facilitate regional plans to expand placement opportunities for nursing students in GP Surgeries and local neighbourhood services across Wales. Engaging with HEIW, Welsh Universities, local Primary Care Academies, relevant Health Boards, and wider stakeholders, the postholder will oversee agreed targeted increases of nursing student placements within designated regions of responsibility and explore further interprofessional learning opportunities. HEIW is seeking a highly motivated, committed, and creative individual, who shares an ambition to work collaboratively to help drive practice learning placements in the primary care sector.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the delivery and day-to-day operation of plans to open up nursing student placements in GP Surgeries in the North Wales region. They will work with designated GP Surgeries, HEIW, Welsh Universities, local Primary Care Academies, Health Boards, and operational support staff working within the remit of the programme, in planning and coordinating required tasks, projects or programmes of work.

They will work closely with internal partners and external stakeholders to build and maintain strong working relationships to ensure the continued success and further development of pre-registration nursing student placement experiences in primary and community care.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

This post is being offered as a secondment opportunity only. If you wish to apply, you must have your line manager's approval before making an application. This post is for a fixed secondment period but may be extended or made permanent at the end of the secondment period depending on available funding and business requirement.

About us

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.

HEIW is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:

• Respect for All in every contact we have with others,
• Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,
• Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.

HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.

What you can expect:

• a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,
• a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
• the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.

Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Registered with NMC
• Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development.
• A Master's degree or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of primary and community care policy, training programmes and frameworks.
• Experience as Team leader/ Project Lead

Experience

• Experience of working in an educationally focused environment
• Experience of undertaking practice supervision and assessment and quality assurance of practice-based learning
• Experience of effective stakeholder working
• Experience of strategic planning, operational planning, policy development and implementation.
• Effective partnership working with health or care organisations.
• Experience in writing complex reports for a diverse audience including instances whereby interpretation of related policies is required.
• Experience of working within primary/ community care practice

Other

• Ability to travel as required to do the job.

Skills and Attributes

• Compassionate leader who values mirrors HEIW's values
• Ability to communicate well and effectively with colleagues and clients
• Having a conscientious and self-disciplined approach to independent working
• Good interpersonal and negotiation skills, to include analysis of complex facts and situations
• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh

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.