Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 10 months
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (2 days to work within service need)
- Job ref
- 328-CP-6398576
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Palliative Care Clinical Educator
Band 7
Job overview
This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
An exciting 10 month secondment opportunity to join a team of Nursing and AHP educators within the Trust as a Palliative Care Clinical Educator. Working directly with the Lead Nurse for Cancer and Palliative Care and the Nursing Midwifery and Education Lead.
The successful candidate will utilise their current experience to develop and lead clinical, virtual and classroom education in relation to the care of the patient with palliative care needs. .
The post holder will support with the development of a portfolio of education related to palliative care.
The post holder will ensure the delivery of palliative care education complements existing education programmes to provide an evidence based education portfolio for the Trust.
They will guide health care staff development and acquisition of knowledge and skills to support the palliative care patient across all areas of care.
The post holder will act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of clinical care. Working alongside other specialities and professional groups there will be an expectation to promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development within the workforce.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will demonstrate the knowledge and skills of a competent Palliative Care practitioner and will:
Lead on the delivery of inter-professional education to ensure staff proficiency in care of the patient with palliative care needs. .
Organise, develop and lead the delivery of clinical training programmes to meet the learning needs of the clinical workforce
Maintain and develop clinical expertise to act as an expert resource to colleagues by guiding practice development and education delivery
Work clinically with staff in the wards and departments to improve their assessment and management of Palliative Care Patients
Work collaboratively with the Lead Nurse for Cancer and Palliative Care and Clinical Educators to deliver inter-professional point of care teaching programmes to enhance patient care to all disciplines of healthcare staff.
The post holder will promote a proactive approach to education, learning and maintaining the highest standards of clinical practice at South Tees NHS Hospitals trust.
This post may close at sufficient applicants.
Working for our organisation
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Details of the full job description and person specification are available to view when you click to apply for the vacancy and click on the ‘about this job’ link and the documents will be attached at the bottom of the screen.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
- Certificate in education or equivalent teaching certificate
- Mentor/Assessor Qualification
- Relevant Professional Degree
Desirable criteria
- Leadership Course
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- To provide clinical expertise and education to health professionals
- Experienced in caring for palliative care patients
- Proven skills in delivering education, presentations and group facilitation
- To have knowledge of current relevant NHS policy in relation to palliative care
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
- Julie Lamb
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for Cancer and Palliative Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01642 850850
- Additional information
01642 850850 ext 54773
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