East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Hiring for PEF / Locality Based Educator (Maternity / Obs & Gynae) Job at Blackburn, England Full Time

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality multi-professional placements & education. Working primarily for learners within our family care division they will also be required to work across the organisation where interprofessional learning opportunities can be provided. This is a split role with the post holder working with both our medical & non-medical students & learners

The post holder will be an NMC registered professional

• Identify and develop new placement opportunities for medical & non-medical students & learners within the Trust by networking with clinical areas to explore all possible learning opportunities within the division.
• Support the DUE & PEF teams in the allocation of placements and clinical activity.
• Participate in the design, implementation, and evaluation of current or new programmes of education and training.
• Engage with the wider clinical workforce, working collaboratively across disciplines and professions through work-based learning, clinical support, education and training and clinical supervision.
• Assess the quality of placement learning environments; ensuring all service areas/ placement providers have up to ILOs and have a clear understand of the requirements of learners whilst on placement.
• Car owner & driver

Valuing our Staff

We will strive to create a workforce that is:

• skilled, well trained, knowledgeable and flexible
• motivated and willing to learn
• customer focused and responsive
• productive, efficient and comparable with the best
• striving for continuous improvement
• committed to the Trust’s aims and values
• valued for its contribution
• representative of the communities it serves

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Core elements:
Student support

• To offer immediate hands-on practical support & guidance to learners & mentors.
• To work alongside learners to ensure that they are given every opportunity to develop their competence.
• Visit students within their placement supporting them with their education and assessments as well as ensuring no learning opportunity is missed.
• To promote effective communication between link lecturers, module leaders & the placement areas
• Supporting interprofessional learning activity across the trust and local service providers
• Support the development & delivery of targeted study days to enhance the training of pre-registration students and other learners within the organization
• Develop bespoke teaching sessions that meet student learning needs & enhance placement learning experience

Placement Quality

• Support placement education leads, Practice Educators, PEF & DUE teams to develop placement circuits that meet student learning needs, mirror the patient journey or explore locality-based healthcare communities.
• Promote the use of a hub and spoke model of placements within the division to increase the breadth of placement experience, improve multi-professional learning, encourage the development of new spokes and simply by managing our spokes better we will also increase capacity.
• Support the production of a central placement database that will improve communication to and from placement managers and educators.
• Support interprofessional learning activity across the trust and local service providers
• Facilitate the development of clinical supervisors across relevant service areas; providing supervision and support structures, building education in clinical practice capability, consistency and efficiency.
• To support mentors & educators in situations where learners are not able to meet their competencies.
• Share best practice relating to Quality Assurance and Interprofessional Learning across placement providers.

Allocations

• Support the DUE, PEF & Placement Hub teams to map annual allocation timetables for medical students and for each HEI to enable long term planning.
• Work with partner HEI’s to reduce placement overlap and duplication.
• Maximize placement use across the Trust and reduce last minute placement cancellations or emergency placement requests.

Capacity

• Working with placement managers to expand placement capacity & increase the number of educators available
• Explore how new placement models such as CLiP, E-roster or Hub & Spoke models of student placements could be utilised to expand placement capacity
• Support the development of E-roster to track and manage learner placements
• Support the introduction of capacity as a daily number of learners rather than a weekly number of students.
• Support the development of simulated or remote learning opportunities

Communication

• Ensure communication channels are used appropriately to facilitate the flow of information between internal and external partners.
• Share best practice relating to Quality Assurance and Interprofessional Learning across placement providers.
• Produce regular progress reports to inform Education Quality monitoring.
• Ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times in conjunction with organisational IG policies.
• Have an understanding of emotional intelligence and human factors and its impact within the health care setting: patients, clinicians, service providers and the wider team.

Personal development

• Manage and prioritise own workload.
• Maintain own knowledge and skills by making opportunities to participate in professional development activities.
• Take responsibility for personal performance and recognise own development needs.
• Participate in the agreed personal development, appraisal scheme.

Health & Safety

• To ensure a safe and pleasant environment for staff & learners to work.
• To ensure a safe and pleasant environment for learning and development to take place.
• To actively contribute to the management of risk and governance.
• To ensure safe moving and handling of teaching equipment from venue to venue.

Equality & diversity

• Ensure that equality and diversity issues are recognised, addressed in accordance with legislation and with local Trust and HEI policies and procedures.