Job overview

A vacancy has arisen for an experienced NMC or HCPC registrant to join our Professional Development Clinical Education team. You must be committed to the development, support and education of our new colleagues at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

You must hold a professional registration and have excellent communication skills, together with a wide breadth of clinical experience.

As a member of our team, you will work within the operating hours of the Education Centre (Mon-Fri, 7am-5pm).

Main duties of the job

Providing ongoing support at point-of-care for those that are within their preceptorship period:

• Newly qualified professionals within 12-months of their entry to the NMC/HCPC register
• Internationally educated/recruited nurses from overseas
• Colleagues returning to practice after a break of more than 5 years

Providing a visible, point-of-care education service responsive to the individual needs of our new starters. Ongoing communication with staff members, Preceptors and line managers to assess progress and plan further development.

Actively responding to referrals from line managers about identified concerns. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate educational intervention, ensuring safe and effective care. Plan, facilitate and deliver clinical teaching that is classroom-based, digital, simulated or at point-of-care, and having direct involvement in the ongoing improvement of the quality and breadth of teaching content.

Work collaboratively and co-operatively with other Professional Development Clinical Educators and the wider Education team to deliver an effective education service.

Support preceptorship across a range of professions, ensuring an equity of support and access. Facilitate peer supervision/action learning groups, responding to potentially challenging scenarios during the transition period from student to professional registrant.

Support recruitment events held by the trust acting as a role model and ambassador for the trust and our preceptorship programme.

Working for our organisation

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC .

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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