Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Hiring for Practice Education Facilitator Job at Manchester, England Full Time

Practice Education Facilitator

We are seeking a full time Practice Education Facilitator to join our Trust wide team to support the provision of high-quality learning environments for our pre-registration learners across Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced healthcare professional with a keen interest in education to join the Professional Education and Development Team as a Practice Education Facilitator.

The post holder will be responsible for the development and delivery of high-quality practice education across the trust through the delivery of new and existing key education work streams across MFT.

This is an exciting time to join our team and we are looking for a highly motivated practitioner with innovative and creative ideas to establish new ways of supporting learners and staff in the clinical learning environment.

If you want to influence the development and training of a professional workforce for the future come and join the Professional Education and Development Team.

As part of the role; you will support learners in practice from a wide variety of healthcare professions, ensuring that all learners receive an outstanding learning experience, which meets both quality assurance standards and measurable regulatory body requirements. You will work with clinical staff at all levels, enabling them to provide support and guidance to learners.

Interested candidates should have highly effective interpersonal skills including; the ability to work with a diverse team of professionals, able to influence and negotiate effectively at all levels and use own initiative. You must have excellent organisational skills and be able to meet tight deadlines. Experience of supporting and assessing healthcare learners is essential. Candidates will have a professional qualification and valid registration appropriate to their specialty, alongside a degree.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.4bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating the most exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’re proud to be one of the major academic research centres and education providers in England and Research and Innovation is the heart of all we do, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We’re also excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable and tackling climate change.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Join us and you’ll work with some of the best people in the NHS, thriving in a Trust united in its values, purpose and commitment to our patients and a drive for continual innovation and improvement.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!