This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Skills and Learning Facilitator to join the Critical Care team at QEQM. This is an essential role to support and to progress our professional and diverse team.

Main duties of the job

We support and deliver a wide range of education and training across the team. We are committed to delivering best practice within Critical Care at EKHUFT to support the delivery of high quality and safe patient care. The Clinical Skills and Learning Facilitator role is integral to the unit. The role of the Clinical Skills and Learning Facilitator will work closely with the Practice Development Nurse to support learners in clinical practice and deliver training programmes.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.

If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Currently working in a critical care unit with 4 years experience
• Significant contribution to practice and service development
• Evidence of expert clinical skills and ability to work outside traditional boundaries
• Critical Care Endorsement
• Completion of CC3N Step1, 2 and 3

Desirable

• practice development experience
• leading development, implementation and evaluation of formal education programmes

Skills

Essential

• Expert clinical skills
• Standard setting and audit
• Communication and Facilitation skills
• Standard setting and audit
• Negotiating and influencing skill

Desirable

• Presenting skills

Governance

Essential

• Current health service priorities Nursing agenda.
• Clinical governance
• Clinical governance agenda
• deteriorating patient programme

Desirable

• Knowledge ofQuality Improvement tools, ward metrics.

Knowledge

Essential

• Participate in quality improvement projects within clinical speciality.
• Role Model trust values at all times

Desirable

• Experience of assisting with delivering education and training to individuals or groups

Other

Essential

• Knowledge of local quality improvement initiatives
• Current understanding of key issues facing the NHS o both locally and Nationally
• Awareness of and adherence to the organisations vision, mission and values

Desirable

• Knowledge of best practice, key issues and developments in the programme.

Employer details

Employer name

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

QEQM

Ramsgate Road

Margate

CT9 4AN

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