General Practice Education Facilitator

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	27 Tachwedd 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Negotiable
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	16 Rhagfyr 2025
Lleoliad:	Carnforth, LA6 2HQ
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd:	B0160-25-0075

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CORE ELEMENTS: To act as a representative for clinical education at local and regional level ensuring that national quality standards are met within practice placements to provide all students an experience of the highest quality. Able to identify trends in work-based and virtual learning, working in partnership with supervisors, assessors, educators, GPEFs and managers to ensure the learning needs of students are met in the workplace. Able to ensure sure that learning opportunities are maximised in the clinical and virtual placement environment for all learners by evaluating training and development programmes and implementing changes as a response to evidence gathered. Able to identify and promote opportunities for partnership working across a range of professional groups and agencies. Work in partnership with our locality GPEFs supporting with ULEs when required ensuring all clinical placements who are supporting pre preceptorship placements have current audits in place. Work with L&SC Primary Care Training Hub New to Primary Care Team to influence educators and managers to continue to offer placements in times of great demand on clinicians and services, balancing the need for increasing clinical placements while ensuring consistency in the quality of placements. Work in partnership with L&SC Primary Care Training Hub New to Primary Care team to ensure our virtual placement is sustained and delivered within a quality framework. Work in partnership with our stakeholders, including speakers, patients, carers and educators to ensure all elements of the virtual placement are being delivered and managed Research and development utilising innovation and problem-solving approaches to further develop our offers QUALITY ASSURANCE: With support from L&SC PCTH Programme Manager and New to Primary Care Team to take the lead in multi professional quality assurance monitoring/audits of clinical education in practice within primary care and in accordance with quality assurance standards in partnership with education providers. Assess the quality of learning environments against quality assurance standards, suggesting improvement measures to enhance learner experience. Where necessary, work with the various clinical placement providers ensuring they have relevant and up to date SMART action plans in place to address any gaps in resources, education, development and knowledge in relation to the learning environment, which then feeds into the audit/quality monitoring visits. Maintain records and ensure all educators, including patients and carers involved with virtual placement, assessors and supervisors are trained and up to date in accordance with the relevant regulatory body standards, where applicable, in relation to supporting and educating learners in practice. Provide best practice advice in a clinical setting for supervisors and staff in relation to clinical education. Constantly seek to improve the quality of clinical education using evidence-based practice, liaising with professional colleagues, reviewing literature and evaluating learner feedback. Develop evaluation methods to assess the impact of clinical education practice on patient care. Support both learners and educators/mentors/supervisor/assessors with risk assessment to ensure health and safety within the practice Work in partnership with the educational institutes in the planning, delivery and development of programmes across primary care. STUDENT SUPPORT: Ensure high quality learning experiences are provided for all learners within primary care. Visit students within their placement supporting them with their education and assessments as well as ensuring no learning opportunity is missed. Support the quality of clinical placement learning environments by ensuring all placement providers have up to ILOs and understand the requirements of the learners whilst on placement. Ensure all learners are provided with a multi professional placement booklet/portfolio to provide information about the experiences they may be able to access within the practice. Ensure all learners are provided with a strategic and local induction at commencement of placement. Support the development of a multi-professional, evidence-based educational/learning programmes - virtual or face to face, in relation to primary care to enhance the learning experience. i.e. CDM, immunisation awareness, vaccinations, wound care, contraception, health promotion, NHS screening, long term conditions etc. Work alongside all stakeholders, patients, carers, external speakers, clinical educators, assessors, and supervisors in practice to support student development. Support educators, assessors and supervisors in complex decisions relating to the learner experience including the achievement of learning outcomes, competence, and fitness for practice. ALLOCATIONS AND CAPACITY: Facilitate the development of our portfolio of educators, assessors and supervisors, providing support structures in order to build capacity, capability, consistency and efficiency. With support from the L&SC PCTH Programme Manager, New to Primary Care Team and locality GPEFs, identify and develop new clinical placement capacity for our leaners across our area by networking with clinical teams and managers to explore all possible learning opportunities. Support L&SC PCTH to map annual allocation of all learner placement plans for each HEI to enable long term capacity planning. Balance the need for increasing the availability of practice placements while ensuring a consistency in the quality of placements. Influence practice management, educators, supervisors and assessor to continue to offer placements in times of great demands on clinicians and services and encouraging them to overcome barriers such as lack of funding, time, and space for student placements. Identify further learning experiences that will enhance learning opportunities. COMMUNICATION: Communicate educational and practice information across, relevant stakeholders including, placement providers and education institutions and undertake presentations relating to education in practice where necessary. Network locally, regionally, and nationally with peer group to support the sharing of best practice. Ensure communication channels are used appropriately to facilitate the flow of information between internal and external partners. Ensure confidentiality for all stakeholders is always adhered to. OTHER: Ensure that equality and diversity issues are recognised, addressed in accordance with legislation, policies, and procedures. Understand the clinical, educational bodies and regulations associated with Health and Social Care professionals working within primary care. Flexibility to adapt the role as required due to the evolving nature and growth of the Lancashire & South Cumbria Primary Care Training Hubs. TERMS Fixed term contract until March 27 (Secondment opportunities will be considered). Hourly rate £24.45 - £27.98 depending on experience Part time 0.4 WTE Flexible working required Travel will be expected