Neonatal Lead Clinical Educator
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustJob overview
An opportunity has arisen for an individual to join the Neonatal team in the role of Lead Clinical Educator at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
The role is key to planning and delivering a clear education and development strategy for Neonatal staff. Measuring the effectiveness against local and National standards through joint working with Key partners.
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Working clinically, the post holder will support healthcare practitioners to develop appropriate clinical patient safety knowledge and skills, with achievement of competencies. Ensure optimisation of resources for provision and development of clinical education.
Act as a clinical expert, visionary, role model and deliver the education and learning for all staff, in a variety of settings, including the clinical area, working alongside the staff. Use of a blended learning approach to ensure maximum benefit from learning opportunities. Utilise effective methods to assess, evaluate, and measure the impact of competence on clinical care and patient safety.
Collaborate with wider Trust and ODN Education Teams to optimise the opportunity for inter-professional and multi-disciplinary working. Ensure that all clinical education is conceptualized and delivered around a centralised framework that maps across operational and workforce plans. Support the development of a skilled clinical workforce , equipped with the necessary professional and clinical skills for the delivery of high-quality patient care, aligned to learning from incidents, RCA’s, SI’s and Quality improvement projects.
Guidance to ensure the appropriate clinical skills are embedded into education and learning and those comply with professional body requirements, AEI accreditation process (where applicable) and are evidence based.
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 .
We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the full qualifications, skills and experience required for this post.
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).
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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.