Clinical Education Facilitator for Children and Young People
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,701 - £48,054 Per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, HA7 4LP |
| Company: | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6208307/392-RNOH-826 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The main purpose of this role is to create and promote conducive learning environment that optimises safe delivery of enhanced nursing care to Children and Young people (CYP) requiring orthopaedic and musculoskeletal care. To support efficient and effective clinical care for CYP and families in order to achieve best outcome and experiences of care.
Are you passionate about staff development, best and evidence based knowledge and skills? Are you motivated when you enable staff to deliver the highest quality and safe nursing care?
Do want to play a povital role in staff retention? Can you facilitate robust orientation and onboarding programme, coordinate the development of educational activities and assessment of learners and improve staff experience?
Do you have what it takes to provide clinical expertise and act as an effective role model for nurses within our department?
If these sound like you, then we would like to hear from you, come join us at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Children's Hospital Unit.
Post holder will create and promote a conducive learning environment that optimises safe delivery of enhanced nursing care to Children and Young people (CYP) requiring orthopaedic and musculoskeletal care.
Facilitate best practice and evidence based knowledge and skills development for staff , in order to optimise the delivery of highest quality and safe nursing care in the clinical area.
Support efficient and effective clinical care for CYP and families to achieve best outcome and experiences of care.
To enhance staff retention through robust orientation and onboarding programme for new staff, coordinate the development of educational activities and assessment of learners within CHU.
Provide clinical expertise and act as an effective role model for nurses
• Specialist Hospital: The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) is not just any hospital; it's the largest specialist orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a globally recognized leader in orthopaedics and neuro-musculoskeletal medicine.
• Exiting place to work: We serve over 150,000 patients annually, offering care for a wide range of conditions, from acute spinal injuries to chronic pain and sarcoma.
• Excellent Place to work: Excellent NHS staff survey result. Above the national average for all themes. Best score amongst acute specialist trusts for flexible working
• Innovation and continuous improvement: At RNOH, we're not just a hospital; we're a hub of innovation, renowned for our ground-breaking research.
Clinical responsibilities:
• Facilitate staff training and compliance with Basic Life Support, Paediatric Immediate Life support, and European Paediatric Advanced Life Support.
• Develop and establish monthly clinical skills workshop for CYP staff.
• Promote and enable the delivery high standards fundamental of care through supporting individual staff with developing clinical knowledge and skills that assure safe enhanced nursing care are delivered to CYP.
• Deliver evidence based and hands clinical nursing skills. Undertake assessment of their competence when taking on these new skills and providing feedback and personalises support to individual nurses.
• Monitor and review clinical practice and professional standards through benchmarking, auditing.
• Identify and respond to changes in protocols, pathways and guidelines and policies.
• Work closely with the Spinal CNS and other relevant teams to implement Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programme on the ward.
• Maintain enhanced nursing care educational records for all staff, competencies and feedback.
• Provide support and facilitate high quality partnership and family centred care for CYP and families in collaboration with the multi professional team and in line with the local and national policies and guideline.
• Coordinate robust induction programme for new starters into the clinical area and maintain a record of induction for all substantive and temporary staff.
• Develop and establish monthly clinical skills workshop for CYP staff.
• Support nursing students, and their supervisors/assessors within the clinical placement areas
• Facilitate developmental opportunities for newly registered nurses that enable them achieve competency and maintain portfolios of practice to meet the demands of their new role
• Help to monitor and report staff performance, institute remedial action planning where necessary.
• Maintain a visible presence within the clinical area, spend minimum of 80% of time working with staff at the bedside to assure delivery of high quality safe and excellent care are delivered to CYP.
• Supervise and monitor the quality of fundamentals of nursing care and nursing documentation is maintained to the Trust and NMC standards implement audit of clinical documentation and records to measure and evaluate care planning.
• Support Clinical Nurse Educator with educational audits to ensure educational quality standards are maintained. Action audit information to achieve agreed standards.
• To act as advocate for CYP and families, actively apply specialist knowledge of holistic/socio-economic and cultural aspects of the care within specific speciality, acting as a role model and resource for CYP, families and clinical colleagues.
• To support staff in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, actively seeking evidence-based practice which will support excellent clinical outcomes for CYP.
• To be aware of and champion current trends and developments in nursing and in the NHS and to promote continuing professional development of self and colleagues.
• Identify clinical risks and ensure that appropriate action is taken under the supervision of the modern matron/senior nurse manager, in accordance with the Trust Risk Management policy.
• Work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team to ensure that care, treatment and service needs are met, ensuring a standard approach to the delivery of excellent nursing care.
• Ensure infection control policies are adhered to by self and those with whom you work. Address areas for action and improvement required in conjunction with Infection control and prevention team, ward management and all staff.
• Take personal responsibility for promoting a safe environment and safe patient care by identifying areas of risk and following the Incident, Serious Incident and Near Misses reporting procedure.
People and Resources management
• Maintain and promote effective communication with multidisciplinary team and other wards/ departments including formal presentation of information relating to the ward/ department.
• Promote the corporate image of the Trust to all individuals, groups and organisations both within the Trust and to the community at large through representation of the Trust at regional and national conferences and in working groups as appropriate.
• Assist with the staff recruitment, retention and selection within the budgeted establishment.
• Co-ordinate structured orientation programmes for new staff, students, temporary staff and honorary visitors
• Support the practice supervisors and assessors to access relevant training and supervision, assist during managing failing staff/students ensure timely escalation and documentation.
• Facilitate staff personal and professional development plans through contributions to the Learning Needs Analysis and support staff with setting developmental aims and objectives.
• Take responsibility for own professional and personal development through research, innovation and attendance at suitable study days.
• Maintain active NMC registration, ensure regular performance review and appraisal, negotiating and agreeing personal and professional objectives with the line manager.
• Support and participate in the appraisal and personal development of staff and in line with the Trust policy.
• Support with implementing study days, team days and seminars that is relevant to clinical area and enhance nurses’ clinical skills.
• Act at all times to ensure own practise is in line with the Trust and Local policies and guidelines and also within the NMC Code of Conduct, and facilitate other staff to do same.
• To support the ward management and deputise for them in their absence.
Research and Service development
• To ensure all team members have a real voice in the development of the clinical areas service
• Collaborate and assist in conducting clinical audit and research. Actively disseminates findings through positively role modelling, staff supervision, teaching and other appropriate communication methods.
• Support implementation of action plans to improve and maintain high standard of fundamental of care and nursing documentation.
• Participate in the Trust Business Planning cycle, identifying areas of service development.
Policy development
• Actively contribute to projects relating to local policy development.
• To be actively involved in the development of Trust policies and procedures at ward level, and to facilitate its application in clinical area.
• To actively promote a healthy lifestyle for CYP and families and staff appreciating national strategy requirements.
This job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024
The main purpose of this role is to create and promote conducive learning environment that optimises safe delivery of enhanced nursing care to Children and Young people (CYP) requiring orthopaedic and musculoskeletal care. To support efficient and effective clinical care for CYP and families in order to achieve best outcome and experiences of care.
Are you passionate about staff development, best and evidence based knowledge and skills? Are you motivated when you enable staff to deliver the highest quality and safe nursing care?
Do want to play a povital role in staff retention? Can you facilitate robust orientation and onboarding programme, coordinate the development of educational activities and assessment of learners and improve staff experience?
Do you have what it takes to provide clinical expertise and act as an effective role model for nurses within our department?
If these sound like you, then we would like to hear from you, come join us at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Children's Hospital Unit.
Post holder will create and promote a conducive learning environment that optimises safe delivery of enhanced nursing care to Children and Young people (CYP) requiring orthopaedic and musculoskeletal care.
Facilitate best practice and evidence based knowledge and skills development for staff , in order to optimise the delivery of highest quality and safe nursing care in the clinical area.
Support efficient and effective clinical care for CYP and families to achieve best outcome and experiences of care.
To enhance staff retention through robust orientation and onboarding programme for new staff, coordinate the development of educational activities and assessment of learners within CHU.
Provide clinical expertise and act as an effective role model for nurses
• Specialist Hospital: The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) is not just any hospital; it's the largest specialist orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a globally recognized leader in orthopaedics and neuro-musculoskeletal medicine.
• Exiting place to work: We serve over 150,000 patients annually, offering care for a wide range of conditions, from acute spinal injuries to chronic pain and sarcoma.
• Excellent Place to work: Excellent NHS staff survey result. Above the national average for all themes. Best score amongst acute specialist trusts for flexible working
• Innovation and continuous improvement: At RNOH, we're not just a hospital; we're a hub of innovation, renowned for our ground-breaking research.
Clinical responsibilities:
• Facilitate staff training and compliance with Basic Life Support, Paediatric Immediate Life support, and European Paediatric Advanced Life Support.
• Develop and establish monthly clinical skills workshop for CYP staff.
• Promote and enable the delivery high standards fundamental of care through supporting individual staff with developing clinical knowledge and skills that assure safe enhanced nursing care are delivered to CYP.
• Deliver evidence based and hands clinical nursing skills. Undertake assessment of their competence when taking on these new skills and providing feedback and personalises support to individual nurses.
• Monitor and review clinical practice and professional standards through benchmarking, auditing.
• Identify and respond to changes in protocols, pathways and guidelines and policies.
• Work closely with the Spinal CNS and other relevant teams to implement Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programme on the ward.
• Maintain enhanced nursing care educational records for all staff, competencies and feedback.
• Provide support and facilitate high quality partnership and family centred care for CYP and families in collaboration with the multi professional team and in line with the local and national policies and guideline.
• Coordinate robust induction programme for new starters into the clinical area and maintain a record of induction for all substantive and temporary staff.
• Develop and establish monthly clinical skills workshop for CYP staff.
• Support nursing students, and their supervisors/assessors within the clinical placement areas
• Facilitate developmental opportunities for newly registered nurses that enable them achieve competency and maintain portfolios of practice to meet the demands of their new role
• Help to monitor and report staff performance, institute remedial action planning where necessary.
• Maintain a visible presence within the clinical area, spend minimum of 80% of time working with staff at the bedside to assure delivery of high quality safe and excellent care are delivered to CYP.
• Supervise and monitor the quality of fundamentals of nursing care and nursing documentation is maintained to the Trust and NMC standards implement audit of clinical documentation and records to measure and evaluate care planning.
• Support Clinical Nurse Educator with educational audits to ensure educational quality standards are maintained. Action audit information to achieve agreed standards.
• To act as advocate for CYP and families, actively apply specialist knowledge of holistic/socio-economic and cultural aspects of the care within specific speciality, acting as a role model and resource for CYP, families and clinical colleagues.
• To support staff in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, actively seeking evidence-based practice which will support excellent clinical outcomes for CYP.
• To be aware of and champion current trends and developments in nursing and in the NHS and to promote continuing professional development of self and colleagues.
• Identify clinical risks and ensure that appropriate action is taken under the supervision of the modern matron/senior nurse manager, in accordance with the Trust Risk Management policy.
• Work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team to ensure that care, treatment and service needs are met, ensuring a standard approach to the delivery of excellent nursing care.
• Ensure infection control policies are adhered to by self and those with whom you work. Address areas for action and improvement required in conjunction with Infection control and prevention team, ward management and all staff.
• Take personal responsibility for promoting a safe environment and safe patient care by identifying areas of risk and following the Incident, Serious Incident and Near Misses reporting procedure.
People and Resources management
• Maintain and promote effective communication with multidisciplinary team and other wards/ departments including formal presentation of information relating to the ward/ department.
• Promote the corporate image of the Trust to all individuals, groups and organisations both within the Trust and to the community at large through representation of the Trust at regional and national conferences and in working groups as appropriate.
• Assist with the staff recruitment, retention and selection within the budgeted establishment.
• Co-ordinate structured orientation programmes for new staff, students, temporary staff and honorary visitors
• Support the practice supervisors and assessors to access relevant training and supervision, assist during managing failing staff/students ensure timely escalation and documentation.
• Facilitate staff personal and professional development plans through contributions to the Learning Needs Analysis and support staff with setting developmental aims and objectives.
• Take responsibility for own professional and personal development through research, innovation and attendance at suitable study days.
• Maintain active NMC registration, ensure regular performance review and appraisal, negotiating and agreeing personal and professional objectives with the line manager.
• Support and participate in the appraisal and personal development of staff and in line with the Trust policy.
• Support with implementing study days, team days and seminars that is relevant to clinical area and enhance nurses’ clinical skills.
• Act at all times to ensure own practise is in line with the Trust and Local policies and guidelines and also within the NMC Code of Conduct, and facilitate other staff to do same.
• To support the ward management and deputise for them in their absence.
Research and Service development
• To ensure all team members have a real voice in the development of the clinical areas service
• Collaborate and assist in conducting clinical audit and research. Actively disseminates findings through positively role modelling, staff supervision, teaching and other appropriate communication methods.
• Support implementation of action plans to improve and maintain high standard of fundamental of care and nursing documentation.
• Participate in the Trust Business Planning cycle, identifying areas of service development.
Policy development
• Actively contribute to projects relating to local policy development.
• To be actively involved in the development of Trust policies and procedures at ward level, and to facilitate its application in clinical area.
• To actively promote a healthy lifestyle for CYP and families and staff appreciating national strategy requirements.
This job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024
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