Senior Practice Educator

Job Overview

We are looking for a dynamic Senior Practice Educator to join the FHFT Education Academy and lead the development and delivery of high-quality education and training for both internal and external learners.

As an experienced nurse or allied health professional (AHP), you will build strong collaborative partnerships, identify learning needs, and design education programs that support professional development across healthcare settings. With expertise in practice education, you will apply a strategic approach to training, ensuring high standards and impactful learning experiences.

This role offers the opportunity to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, shaping the future of healthcare education. If you are passionate about developing others and driving excellence in education, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Delivering high-quality education and training across the Trust and its partner organisations, using a variety of methods, including face-to-face, virtual, and blended approaches. This will involve engaging with healthcare professionals across different settings, including secondary care and community-based environments, with potential for travel across the UK.

In addition, you will be responsible for supporting the professional development of staff through mentorship, training programs, and competency assessments. You will be expected to work flexibly across various locations, adapting to the needs of the service and ensuring that education and development are accessible to all relevant healthcare professionals.

You will act as a role model in education, fostering a culture of excellence in learning and professional growth, while ensuring that clinical and educational standards are upheld. Providing expert clinical and educational advice will be a key aspect of the role, ensuring that healthcare professionals are supported in their continuous development.

Moreover, you will assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs, ensuring these align with best practice guidelines and regulatory requirements. Your contributions will be integral to maintaining high standards of education, improving service delivery, and promoting lifelong learning within the healthcare environment.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

1. Current NMC registrant (Adult nursing) or HCPC registrant
2. Degree educated
3. ENB 997/998, mentorship, Practice Assessor or equivalent
4. Post Graduate Certificate in Education
5. MSc or working towards
6. Quality improvement qualification
7. Evidence of commitment to ongoing professional development

Desirable criteria

1. Professional Nurse Advocate or working towards qualification
2. Human factors qualification
3. Advanced communication qualification
4. Project management qualification

Skills

Essential criteria

1. Demonstrates written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
2. Agile approach to work with the ability to prioritise
3. Excellent I.T. skills with knowledge Microsoft 365 products
4. Demonstrates up to date knowledge and expertise in practice education.

Desirable criteria

1. Proficient professional use of social media
2. Excellent customer service skills

Experience

Essential criteria

1. Experience of developing partnerships across organisational boundaries
2. Experience working across secondary care, primary care and PIVO sectors
3. Substantial relevant experience (postgraduate) in practice or academic education

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice
2. Business development/entrepreneurship experience
3. Published author
4. Previous experience in developing standards, guidelines and policies

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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