Job summary
- Main area
- Education & Training
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 229-COR-7487822
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford County Hospital
- Town
- Hereford
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practice Facilitator
Band 6
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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Practice Education Team – growing in response to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (2023), to educate and develop our current and future workforce.
We are looking for a highly motivated, credible and clinically experienced healthcare practitioners, with a special interest in education, and sound experience of developing others – to join us as a Band 6 Practice Facilitator.
These substantive Practice Facilitator posts are ‘flexible’ by nature - requiring a high level of adaptability to work collaboratively across the Practice Education Team within the Education Team.
The Practice Education Team includes: pre-reg Midwifery, pre-reg Allied Health Professional, Resuscitation, HASTE, Preceptorship, International Nurses Programme and Apprenticeships.
Main duties of the job
Identify evidence based, best practice models for the development of training programs for pre and post registration and non- registered multidisciplinary workforce within their own scope of practice.
Ability to work flexibly across the Education Directorate and Practice Education Team to support education and training
Provide support to learners with the acquisition of enhanced skills and the delivery of holistic care based upon care pathways and evidence based practice.
Providing support and education to learners, supervisory staff and the Practice Education Team.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification uploaded to the system - please see job description
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level professional qualification, including current NMC / HCPC registration
- 1st degree in health related subject or equivalent experience
- Possession of assessment qualification e.g. Practice Assessor / Practice Educator (AHP) or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Teacher / Trainer Award e.g. PG Cert (Teacher) / PGCE or equivalent relevant experience
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to develop, implement and evaluate evidence based clinical skills teaching both in the classroom and in practice
- Broad knowledge of education delivery in the NHS and associated key relationships
- Ability to work flexibly and responsively, in order to support learners at all times
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical experience at Band 5 (or equivalent) or above.
- Experience of teaching clinical skills in acute and / or community based practice setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Haslam
- Job title
- Senior Simulation Co-Ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01432 383307
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