Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Education
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Part time
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-SN1117-COR-A
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brighton General Hospital
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Professional Development Allied Health Professional
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The post holder will have a lead role in the development and delivery of a variety of formal, informal and bespoke development opportunities for all AHP professional groups, including AHP support works and HCAs, newly registered ,Return to Practice and Internationally recruited AHPs. Collaborating with external stakeholders to ensure agreed system wide procedures are adhered to in order for clinical practice to remain contemporary and evidence based.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
• Proactively manages risk to vulnerable persons through the development of activities that support staff to deliver care that is evidence informed, safe and effective.
• Participates / facilitates meetings in response to the development needs of staff.
• Works collaboratively with clinical professional colleagues and agencies to ensure effective communication in order that needs of the workforce are identified.
• Manages risk and maintains service delivery through effective communication and liaison with Service Managers, locality Practice Facilitators and Professional colleagues.
• Engages constructively with clinicians and students to support, develop and enhance quality standards of clinical practice in the work environment.
• Provides clinical leadership and advice to clinical staff, patients and carers based on current evidence informed knowledge.
• Demonstrates the ability to make critical judgements in relation to clinical decision making, including the identification and support of individuals where practice concerns have been raised.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Maintains up to date clinical skills and knowledge for own profession and maintains awareness of professional issues across all AHP professions, supporting the AHP Professional Leads through the appraisal of research and evidence actively seeking out new sources.
• Demonstrate personal accountability in their everyday practice and an understanding of their responsibility for staff to which they delegate actions through education.
• Contributes to the improvement of patient care and patient safety by ensuring staff clinical competence is monitored and reported to necessary assurance groups, escalating issues as required.
• Line management as required of colleagues within the wider
Clinical Education and Development Team.
The post holder will provide support access to appropriate development, to maintain a competent workforce, providing clinical leadership to the Clinical Services in supporting transfer of theory to practice. The post holder will be a registered AHP, ideally with a teaching qualification or experiential knowledge. As a registered professional the post holder is required to adhere to relevant Professional standards and guidelines of practice, education and conduct.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Allied HealthCare Professional with current registration
- Masters level study or has equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Practice Supervisor or willing to undertake the training
- Approved teaching qualification or working towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive clinical experience at band 6
- Experience of contributing to development and evaluation of clinical teaching programmes
- Experience of supervision and line management
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of delivering development opportunities to meet the requirements of the Trust and individual learners
- Demonstrates effective written and spoken communication, using non-judgemental language with an ability to deliver complex information through presentations, feedforward, meetings and documentation
- Demonstrates good motivational, organisational and time management skills
- Demonstrates ability to translate national and local policy, and professional standards into practice and teaching sessions
- Demonstrates awareness and interest in the range of AHP professions, and national agenda for AHPs
- Ability to work as an autonomous professional or coordinating a team demonstrating effective prioritisation, problem solving and using clinical judgement
- Is literate in use of Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Power point) applications and electronic communication systems such as MS Teams
- Willing to develop skills in technology enhanced learning, and blended learning.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of the pedagogical practice and curriculum design principles
- Ability to demonstrate leadership, remain motivated and support colleagues during times of change
other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between sites, car owner / driver
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Scott Cassidy
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Clinical Education and Development
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07826876820
- Additional information
Deputy Head of Clinical Education and Development (AHP)
Informal discussions are welcomed and encouraged
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