Professional Practice Educator Band 7 - 18.75 hours per week Monday - Wednesday

Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre is a centre of excellence for multiprofessional learning and education and is a regional centre for advanced clinical simulation-based education as well as offering a range of clinical skills based teaching for local and regional NHS staff. Our educational activities include teaching programmes related to patient safety, Human Factors and team training

We are looking for an experienced educator in high fidelity simulation to join our team. Working with multiprofessional teams at NUH as well as education and clinical colleagues from across the region, you will play a key part in the development and delivery of education programmes that support patient safety as well as developing our extensive education programmes in simulation, clinical skills, team training and Human Factors.

Main duties of the job

Alongside your teaching responsibilities, you will help shape and lead a range of educational audit and research projects and take a lead in quality assurance at a local level and contribute to regional and national initiatives. You will represent the Department at key local, regional and national events, presenting work and sharing best practice.

You will have a clinical background, teaching experience in both high fidelity simulation and clinical environments and be passionate about education and developing others. Able to work on your own initiative as well as support others to achieve their goals, you will be able to critically assess a range of data to inform and develop programmes.

About us

The successful candidate will be joining a flexible, positive, can do team that enjoys its work and with a strong focus on excellence for all our learners

Job description

Job responsibilities

Alongside your teaching responsibilities, you will help shape and lead a range of educational audit and research projects and take a lead in quality assurance at a local level and contribute to regional and national initiatives. You will represent the Department at key local, regional and national events, presenting work and sharing best practice.

You will have previous experience of leading and working with multiprofessional teams to achieve shared goals and will enjoy working collaboratively, able to resolve conflicts and seek solutions to issues that arise. You will line manage Band 6 Clinical Educators including undertaking appraisals as well as mentoring other team members, students and Fellows as relevant.

Person Specification

Training and qualifications

Essential

• oClinical qualifications - 1st level registered nurse or equivalent medical/ allied health qualifications
• oCurrents registration with professional body
• oPost registration qualification and training relevant to specialty
• oDemonstrates continued professional development
• oTeaching qualification
• oMasters qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

• oRelated post-graduate qualifications - Human Factors, Improvement Science
• oAttendance at Training trainer courses
• oStudying for or holds Masters in Medical/Clinical Education
• oMentor/assessor qualification

Communication and relationship skills

Essential

• oAble to present and receive highly complex information to a multiprofessional audience
• oDemonstrable negotiation and influencing skills
• oAssertiveness and the ability to deal with interpersonal conflict
• oTeam player who can initiate, delegate and complete projects
• oGood interpersonal and presentation skills, both written and verbal skills.
• oAbility to interact with multidisciplinary teams
• oAble to establish effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels and internal /external to organisation
• oAble to support anxious/distressed colleagues/students

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential

• oAbility to respond to, prioritise and analyse highly complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place,
• oAbility to generate and present directorate level reports and documents
• oDeal effectively with clinical issues within defined guidelines
• oEvidence of data collection, evaluation and analysis
• oAble to work alone and make decisions

Desirable

• oCritical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for research/audit
• oAble to collect, synthesize, analyse and prioritise training needs data and develop appropriate responses

Planning and Organisation skills

Essential

• oSelf motivated and organised
• oAdaptable and able to meet changing priorities at short notice
• oAble to prioritise own work and assist other to prioritise.
• oAble to plan and organise a broad range of complex activities and programmes including formulation and adjustment of plans and strategies.

Desirable

• oFacilitate working groups of all disciplines and levels including chairing and minute taking
• oExperience of strategic planning and evaluation

Physical skills

Essential

• oAble to deliver course programmes that involve frequent standing and sitting
• oAble to travel regionally and nationally
• oVDU user
• oKeyboard skills
• oAble to set up educational materials including lifting/moving equipment and teaching aids/clinical equipment

Other

Essential

• oConscientious, confident, accurate,
• oAble to work flexibly with early morning starts and evening finishes, weekend working
• Positive thinker, problem solver

Experience

Essential

• oExperienced in designing and delivering high fidelity simulation courses
• oUnderstanding of human factors principles
• oCompetent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from internet.
• oCarrying our audit
• oExperience of supervising a team and carrying out appraisals
• oExperience of giving feedback on a one to one basis in an educational setting
• oCan lead change and is able to demonstrate implementation of new ways of working within team
• oPractical experience teaching small groups and multiprofessional teams
• oPost registration experience including management/ and leadership

Desirable

• oExperience in undertaking, and reporting/presenting audit / research work at local (Trust) level.
• oExperience of facilitation, Large group teaching, multiprofessional teaching.
• oExperience of acting as course convenor for a teaching module/programme
• oParticipation in audit/research projects

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

QMC Campus Derby Road

Nottingham

NG7 2UH

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