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Job overview

Are you a registered health visitor with a passion for training and education? If so this role may be for you. We are looking for a motivated and passionate health visitor to undertake the role of Practice Educator (Previously Practice Teacher). 

Applications are welcomed from experienced, committed, energetic health visitors who can demonstrate a proven track record in clinical practice, innovation, leadership, commitment and an interest in providing training and developing the health visiting workforce to meet the needs of vulnerable families. 

You must have a Community Practice Teacher/ Educator qualification (or equivalent) and be an experienced,  registered SCPHN Health Visitor.

This is an exciting opportunity to help develop health visiting practice and to join a team who are passionate about delivering the best to the local community. 

Main duties of the job

The Practice Educator is responsible for the recruitment, teaching and assessment of student SCPHN Health Visitors alongside supporting and developing the Health Visiting Workforce. The Practice Educator will also hold a caseload of families delivering the healthy child programme alongside their teaching role. 

The Practice Educator will support with policy development and undertaking clinical audit, feeding back audit findings to the workforce. 

The Practice Educator will develop programmes of training for student health visitors and the health visitor workforce and will support in the delivery of these programmes. This includes training for student health visitors, the preceptorship programme, healthy child practitioners, community nursery nurses and health visitors.

The Practice Educator will identify learning needs within the workforce and will support in addressing these learning needs.  

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality. 

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens this year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities. 

We have three strategic objectives:

1. Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives