Job summary
Employer heading
Community Practice Educator/Clinical Skills Coach
NHS AfC: Band 6
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values
Job overview
This is a clinical post and the post holder must be able to work in a variety of community settings and demonstrate competency in a range of core skills.
The post holder will be responsible for promoting high standards of care through the demonstration of clinical expertise and creating a clinical environment that supports and encourages learning and the advancement of high quality, professional practice within our services. The post holder will also, as a part of the education team, facilitate the induction, clinical mandatory updates and continuing professional development for nursing staff working across Sutton Health and Care.
The post holder will work clinically alongside staff to provide skills support and completion of competency based activity across a range of services
In addition the post holder will be involved with liaising with the relevant education providers to ensure that communication between education and practice is maintained.
Main duties of the job
To work with the team to facilitate learning opportunities in clinical practice for post registration nurses, pre-registration nursing students, Nursing Associates, Associate Practitioners and Health Care Assistants. In addition the post holder will need to support staff who are undertaking enhanced skills, such as administration of IV Therapy and Lower Limb Compression Therapy.
This will include:
- Support in practice, providing ‘hands on’ delivery of care to oversee and support competency achievement
- Supporting in the development and delivery of designated clinical sessions for Mandatory Training/Induction programme.
- Contribute to the development programme for Nurses new to the Community
- Support the Clinical Skills and IV Therapy Competency programme
- Working collaboratively with the Senior Nurses and Team Leaders to develop clinical skills within the teams to support competency achievement
- Work with the team to ensure responsiveness to changing needs in clinical practice highlighted by complaints, incidents or National Guidance.
- Support in the design and delivery of clinical learning programmes and/or creating clinical learning opportunities, as required, for a safe effective patient responsive service.
Working for our organisation
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role
Person specification
education
Essential criteria
- registered nurse
- competent in core community nursing skills
- NMC practice assessor
Desirable criteria
- • Specialist Practitioner Qualification (District Nursing)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Have post registration experience within a community setting
- • Experience of coaching and supporting pre-registration students and junior colleagues
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in managing the needs of complex patients in a community setting
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
- Scott Elbourne
- Job title
- Workforce and Education Development Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07554 879 190
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